JEREMY CRONIN
Well, it might be difficult for you to get your mind around that concept but the fact is that Chris Hani joined the political struggle first and foremost, - the struggle didn't last for 40 years, it lasted for several centuries in this country against colonial occupation - people like Chris Hani understood that it was essentially a political struggle.  He took up - as he explain quite carefully in the document that I've submitted - and I'll refer you so that we're clear about this matter, he says on the bottom of page four
"When we finally launched an armed struggle we were not abandoning our quest for peace, we were pursuing that quest in the most effective way left to us by an ...[indistinct] and brutal regime.  	Over the decades deploying mass struggle, armed struggle, underground work and building international solidarity, we finally forced the White minority regime to negotiate with our liberation movement and that was our victory.
In the interests of speeding up the negotiations process, in August 1990 we announced that we were suspending our armed struggle.  Our strategic deployment of violence was put on hold"
That I think, helps to explain to you - as difficult as you may find it to be believe, why Chris Hani had laid up his arms.  The fact that he was able to be assassinated in the middle of what was basically a White suburb on a Saturday morning, I think is another indication that this was not someone pursuing a military career or a military offensive - he was engaged in normal political activity seeking a peaceful solution to our country.  That may be difficult for you to imagine but that was certainly what he was doing.