H J P BOTHA
Capt van Dyk and W/O Roeland.  It's important to realise that whilst the ANC were busy in a negotiations process with the National Party, who were the governing party of the day, the ANC still propagated the armed struggle and violence and they also acted on it.  For convenience the following extracts are quoted from Seshaba the ANC's mouthpiece, Seshaba of March 1990, Armed Struggle
"White South Africa must accept the plain fact that the ANC will not suspend to say nothing of abandoning the armed struggle until the Government shows it's willingness to surrender the monopoly of political power and to negotiate directly and in good faith with the acknowledged black leaders.  The renunciation of violence by either the government on the ANC should not be a precondition to, but the result of, negotiation."
And I quote from Seshaba April 1990:
"The issue of negotiations as far as the ANC is concerned, is not to be isolated from the mainstream struggle to destroy apartheid.  It is but another terrain of a number of interrelated terrains of our struggle, namely the activities of the ANC underground inside South Africa, mass protest action, mobilisation of the international community against the apartheid regime and the armed struggle.  Negotiations do not replace any of these and must, until otherwise decided in the course of negotiations, go simultaneously with all these other areas of struggle."
Statistics that I believe are correct, indicate the following in respect of armed attacks by the ANC SACP Alliance in the Port Natal area.  During 1990 there were 26 such incidents and in 1991 there were 31, 1992 there were 50 and in 1993 there were 39 incidents.