MR ZILWA
As I've stated Mr Chairman, I'm not saying the accused were quite the beacon of reasonableness and they themselves have agreed to that, but one should always bear in mind their motivation at the time, the prevailing circumstances, the anger which almost every black person, not only black persons, almost every progressive person in our country was going through at the time.  So the reasonableness or otherwise of their action should be viewed in that context.  Now what they are saying is "we were hell-bent on killing a white" there's no doubt about that.  It didn't have to be a black man otherwise the message won't be sent across.  It had to be a white person because Chris Hani had been killed by a white person and wanted to send a message to other similarly  minded whites, that this would not be tolerated, they should stop it.  Now they say even though we have that objective in mind but "it was not really our intention" to kill randomly any white.  Now it could very well be that their selection of their target was not as reasonable or as careful as it could otherwise have been, but I'll hurry to submit that even if that that is so, that should be no reason, that cannot be any reason to conclude that in fact their act was not politically motivated or that it did not comply with the requirements.  All that they say is that we wanted at least to be able to reasonably assume that the whites that we are going to retaliate against would at least be the relevant whites i.e. the hateful whites, if you like, but that is all they say, but that is not directly the point in issue, that is not the pivot, that is not the harp around which their whole application revolves.  They wanted to kill a white man but they also wanted that at least that white man be a hateful white man.