FREDERICK EMMANUEL HUFKIE
Yes as I said it was a very demoralising experience for me to have taken into custody for no reason whatsoever, except that I was opposed to the government policy, opposed to the government and I expressed myself freely.  So that is the position as far as 1976 was concerned.  I returned and decided that I was going to resign, take early retirement from the teaching profession because I feared that at some stage they were going to dismiss me, the Department of Education, because of my opposition to the Coloured Affairs having taken over the education of our schools at the time, I was vehemently opposed to Coloured Affairs and I expressed myself freely in the presence of inspectors when they visited my school and I think that is a factor which would have eventually led to my dismissal, and that is why I decided to go on early retirement prematurely, depriving myself of substantial financial benefits, pension benefits and other benefits.  But I felt that the safest way out would be for me to go on premature retirement, even though I suffered financially because of that premature retirement in 1976.  I retired in 1978, I served another year, 1977 and in 1978 my retirement was granted, voluntary retirement prematurely.