LERATO ABEL KHOTLE
Firstly, at the time when I was in this province, after being deployed in this area, I was able to make assessments of specific areas, and I was able to make assessments of the region as a whole.  That is a requirement so that every APLA soldier, when he arrives at a certain place, he must do that assessment of that particular area.
	What happened is that before the Wesselsbron attack, my comrades, that is Ryber, who is Bhani, arrived, as I was expecting him from Umtata.  When he arrived, I took him from Welkom to Wesselsbron at Mnyagene Township.  Mnyagene Township I sought accommodation for him and then he found that accommodation.  It was within his scope of his work that when he arrived in a particular area, he should make his own assessment, then he should look for areas where he, I would use this word, say potential targets.  
	What happened is that he stayed in Mnyagene for some time, then he returned to Welkom and reported to me that he was able to identify a certain place, he said this is the right place that that place should be attacked.  He gave me reasons why that area should be attacked.  The first reason was that during the time when he conducted his reconnaissance or that information-gathering, he was able to find out that that place was frequented by security police and then again by members of AWB.   
	After he reported to me and gave me the full details of that particular place, I was obliged to make my own reconnaissance at the supermarket.  This incident happened in June.  In the late May or the last week of May, I started to continue with my reconnaissance.  I did them in two days, that is Friday and Saturday.  It is within these two days that what I heard from Bhani is true.  
	On the first week of June, I departed from Welkom on Friday and I went to Wesselsbron.  I left on Friday deliberately late in the afternoon, around six to seven o'clock, knowing that the taxi would take me next to, would pass next to the supermarket.  I alighted the taxi at the taxi rank, becuase they were waiting for taxis from the township, because that taxi started from Odendaal, Odendaalsrus to Wesselsbron, and it did not go through the township.  I stayed there for a while, waiting for a taxi from the township.  I went to that supermarket.  At the door, when I entered, I met one of those people who were there and who was armed with a pistol.  He was wearing private clothes.  I entered inside.  I went to the fridge, I took a drink, I took some fruits.  
	At the time whilst I was taking those cooldrinks and the fruits, I was looking around the area.  I paid at the counter and when I went outside, that person whom I found at the door who was having a pistol, that is the time when he was leaving the area, and thereafter I left the store.  Outside I saw a taxi which came from the township.  Then I entered into that taxi to Mnyagene Township.  
	On Saturday, I went back to Welkom late in the afternoon.  I did that deliberately, because I wanted to pass again at that store.  I went there and waited for taxis from Wesselsbron to Odendaalsrus where I would embark on a taxi to Welkom.  I went inside again and looked inside.  On that day, I saw one person who was talking with other people, and he was having a pistol, but he was not the same person as the one I saw on Friday.  I passed and I went to Welkom.  
	On the second week, if I remember well, I returned.  I arrived at the same time late in the afternoon, that was on Friday.  I found the situation being the same, there would always be one person who was armed.  I went to the township.  The following day I left early in the morning.  On Saturday I returned to Welkom.  When I arrived in Welkom, I took a taxi to Umtata.  Then I met the Director of Operations, that is Comrade Leklapa Mpashlele.  I explained to him about the situations in Free State and about that particular target in fact, Wesselsbron.  In a discussion, we were able to identify that place as a potential target.  Then he gave me an approval that I should return and instruct the unit which was present, which was led by Comrade Bhani, that it should execute the operation.  That's how the operation was executed.