HENDRIK JOHANNES PETRUS BOTHA
If I can take it from the top to the bottom, the Government, the Police top structure and myself personally believed, none of us believed there could have been an alternative to the policy of the government of the day, which was the National Party.  We had a democracy which was functioning.  In retrospect, I believed that the apartheid system worked as far as I'm concerned.  If communism or the Communist Party together with the ANC and the PAC, if they were to succeed to gain control by means of their revolutionary struggle, then we would have been left in chaos and that had to be prevented at all costs and I would have given my life to prevent that.