JOHANNES JACOBUS VIKTOR
No, no, no Sir that is not the question.  You have asked me now, at the scene there when the scenario changed why didn't I take charge.  Now I have told you in evidence here that things happened so quickly.  Sir, I don't think it was a question of minutes after these people ran past that I heard the shots.  I don't think it was a question of minutes.  And I did, when I saw these people running past and not going into the stadium, and I've also given that evidence here, I said to Major Simms send some officers and men to go around and see what's going on, and as I have said we all believed that the people will go into the stadium, because that is what the magistrate said, they
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can go into the stadium.  So I am not trying to run away from my responsibilities, not at all.  Maybe I am just more loyal than some of my CDF colleagues.