DITINI THYIDO
Although the act for which I was found guilty was illegal, we were forced to do that because the community at large in our locations needed protection from the members of the Internal Stability Unit and their informants.
	The objective of this act was so that those police of the Internal Stability Unit were to leave our locations and not come back again, because the residents in their entirety did not appreciate their presence there.
	That act was aimed at getting rid of the police in the location so that the residents could retrieve their human rights.  Once again, that act was aimed at showing the government of the time that the residents did not want the municipal officers that were being forced upon them.
	The act of attacking informants and members of the Internal Stability Units was allowed, accepted and it was a decision was taken by SANCO at the time when the Self Defence Unit was launched.
	Truly speaking because of that act, for which we were found guilty, it was very evident that the Councillors had to resign.  The police of the Internal Stability Unit left our locations.
	I hence ask the Committee to view my act and the circumstances under which that act took place as qualifying for amnesty in terms of Section 20 of Act 34 of 1995.