JEFFREY THAMSANQA RADEBE
In fact the communities played a central role in the Self Defence Units, in fact the Self Defence Units were a creation of all those communities who were undergoing severe attacks from the forces and powers that be.  So in essence the Self Defence Units were as a result of the communities themselves, deciding that they needed the Self Defence Units.
	As an ANC, we were playing a supportive, secondary role in ensuring that those community structures of Self Defence Units are indeed properly empowered, to pursue these defensive capacity.