MR MKHIZE
Firstly Romeo's arrest was very dangerous.  Romeo was one of the people that I trusted in the syndicate therefore he's arrest, when we were so busy involved in such a tense war with African National Congress, if you break or if one of the members of the syndicate was arrested that fact alone would mean that our side would be defeated because there would be someone who was no longer there.  I would use Romeo in intelligence activities as well as well physical activities therefore the IFP would have really lost out if Romeo was no longer involved in our activities.
	Secondly, there was people involved in a political battle knowing very well that his arrest was on political grounds.  If I can just explain this, yesterday I said that both these organisations used whatever means to fight off their enemy.  If I can just make an example, one day Umbiasi's house was shot at and this was an IFP house but because we knew that this was done for political reasons, we had to sit down with the local leadership that I mentioned yesterday and devised a way that we're going to use since the ANC had attacked, a way for us to retaliate so that they would be sorry for their actions.
	At that meeting we decided that Mr Zazi Sibande should be a witness in the trial of Umbiasi's shooting.  Zazi Sibande was supposed to testify that he had seen Bongani Nsomi shooting and he had also seen him giving orders to his followers or to his colleagues to shoot.  In actual fact, Bongani Nsomi had never even been there at the scene.  Even Sibande whom we made into a witness was not at the scene of Umbiasi's shooting but because there was a political struggle, we said Zazi Sibande should testify that he had seen Mr Nsomi shooting at Umbiasi's house.  
	You should see how intense the war was, we were using all means because we realised that Bongani was strong and was attacking us and we couldn't get hold of him, we couldn't track him down and therefore it was easier to have him arrested and in jail therefore to get rid of him he would have to be arrested or be killed.  The only thing we hadn't as yet done was to use traditional medicine against him, bewitch him.  That case is known by Mr Nsomi and Sibande was indeed a witness.  Bongani knows very well that he was not there but Sibande did in fact give the evidence that he was there.  So he knew that this allegation that Romeo has stolen a car could be the same strategy that was being used against us because there was this political struggle and each side wanted to defeat the other.