JONES JUDA MDLULI
I will explain that.  When I joined the police it was after my schooling at Gugulabasha.  That school is in Dusoma, very close to KwaMashu.  I and other pupils from that school and neighbouring school we supported the UDF at the time which I think was a branch of the ANC.  When I joined the police in 1991 you made to take an oath and you were informed that if you are a police officer you should be apolitical so that you are able to protect the community fairly.  That is what was on my mind when I went to college and when I returned from the college that was also on my mind.  When I was with the KwaZulu Police in 1984 I arrived there in April.  I was told then that when you joined the KwaZulu Police you should become a member of the IFP and also that the police force is under the command of Mangosutho Buthelezi who was the Minister of Police and an IFP Chairperson there.  I then attempted to make an application to return to the SAP because that was against my policies.  That application was turned down in Ulundi.  I went to the police commissioner at C R Swart to explain my problems.  He said he would accept me provided Ulundi gives me permission to do so.  When I returned to Ulundi they refused, they said I cannot go back to the South African Police.  I then decided that I shall continue working then and then I had an idea that my colleagues were members of an organisation that I opposed therefore I felt it was time for me to do whatever I could to support that organisation which I supported and that which was supported by my family and my friends and neighbours.  Therefore I continued being an ANC supporter although I was working in an environment which was dominated by the IFP.