MR LYSTER
with Renamo.  He was linked to violence in a number of areas - Umlazi, what is now Gauteng, what is now Mpumalanga and also up the North Coast.  Whilst in Mandini he was working together with the KwaZulu Police and a local chief who is allegedly deeply implicated in the violence.  Mdanda was linked to a number of killings in Mandini and was never ever brought to book.  I've mentioned one example in my submission where Mdanda was arrested together with another feared man called Bongani Mthimkhulu.  They were arrested by a member of the police in Sundumbili following two murders in 1990 and after Mthimkhulu threatened to become Nofamela No 2, which of course relates to the famous hit squad revelations, and demanded to phone Brigadier Mathe, there was intervention by senior members of the KwaZulu Police, including Captain Manzini and Hlengwa, and Mdanda and Mthimkhulu were released from the custody of the police and taken to the home of a prominent IFP leader in Esikhawini.  That's not the only time that Mdanda was arrested and released after intervention by senior policemen.  And not only KwaZulu policemen;  the same thing happened in Durban and he was released after intervention by some of the most senior members of the South African Police in Umlazi in 1985.  So those were some of the major patterns which emerged in the Mandini area and in fact I also give an example in my submission of what was quite typical.  Ainsley, in his role as Democratic Party president of the unrest monitoring group wrote to Minister Vlok warning about attacks in an area called Nembe and Vlok responded and said the matter would receive attention by the police, senior policemen.   /The police