MR DU PLESSIS
General in my research I found an articlewritten by someone called Hansen.  This appeared in a journalPolicing and Law and in this article there was a particular incidentdiscussed which I want to present to you.  This had to do withthe action of the police in terms of emergency regulations.  Hediscussed the case as an unreported case, I don't have the particulardecision at hand State v Verlet in the Cape Province, andread as follows
  "The philosophy of policing in the eighties has shiftedfrom its original roots in total onslaught
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  and total strategy now rests on the notion of revolutionaryonslaught.  Initially this meant that the SAP were trying to perceivecivil conflict as part of a global communist onslaught againstcapitalism.  They now see civil resistance as symptomatic of athird world revolutionary attack.  From this standpoint it hasbecome the duty of the SAP to stave off onslaught in any way possible. In the case of State v Verlet it was shown that the SAPwere ordered to eliminate people that they perceived as beingthe enemy.  It is not unlikely, therefore, that this type of consciousnesshas produced the readiness to kill on the part of the SAP".
This is testimony in a case in the Cape in 1989, roughly in 1989. General if such testimony had been given already at that timewould you be aware of any enquiries or...(Tape ends)