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It was necessary to eliminate activistssince the information gained from them during interrogation hadto be protected.  The identity of the informants and sources ofthe Security Police had to be protected.  If activists and terroristsafter providing information would have been arrested, then theinformation,  routes of the freedom fighters and activists wouldhave changed so that the Security Police would not have been ableto use the information.  When activists intended going outsidethe country for training they had to be eliminated to preventthat they would destabilise the land and its people at a laterstage by means of acts of terrorism, such as bombing attacks againstboth the security forces and soft targets.  As soon as an activisthad been trained, he was in a different class to other activists. His knowledge and
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skills became similar to that of the Security Police and he wouldhave been much more effective in military operations.
All of this maintained the Government of the National Party andcombatted communism effectively and maintained apartheid.