MR DE RU
Your Honour, I was his greatest confidant.  It was well known and even in court procedure it, reference was made to that several times, about the relation, the trust relationship between Colonel Voigt and I.  I have got the greatest respect for Colonel Voigt.  It was often said that I was his shadow.  Wherever he was, I would be in the vicinity.  I believed in Colonel Voigt.  I also accepted his operational methods and his way of thinking as my own.
	I also knew that Colonel Voigt was held in very high esteem and was of most senior officers in the police force and that he was always referred to as one of the best detectives in South Africa.  He was my inspiration to do my best at all times and I believed in everything he prescribed to me.  In discussions between Colonel Voigt and I it was quite clear, your Honours, that he could issue instructions, that serious action be taken against persons who were murdering farmers and attacking them and also the aged.  
	It was through his conveyance to me and also my own 
knowledge that I knew that the situation at that stage in the country was of such a nature that farmers and aged were attacked and murdered in most cruel manners thinkable in order to send shockwaves through everyone and hence overthrow the stability of the country and, in doing so, also bring the Government of the day into disrepute and discredit it and in order to create, to send shockwaves through the farming community and also through the aged community.  
	It was a method which was used to attempt to drive them off their properties and it is well known to all of us, your Honours, that especially in the Free State, the agricultural community forms a very strong support pillar to the country's economy and also to the country itself and the apartheid policy was strictly adhered to, and I was a police officer who understood their way of thinking and their beliefs in the exact way as they experienced them.