JOHAN VAN EYCK
Yes.  The period which I am referring to is the late Seventies, but I wasn't then so closely involved with the riots, because I was then still in the detective branch.  In the beginning of the 1980s, a couple of us were told to go to Tembisa to help combat the riots and violence reigning at the time. I was there for a couple of months.  I then went back to Benoni.  	Approximately a month thereafter I received an instruction, myself and a colleague of mine, Warrant-Officer Kruger, to go to Daveyton.  Certain police dwellings had been burnt down. When we arrived there that afternoon, we were immediately attacked.  Our vehicle was damaged, the vehicle was stoned.  We had to make use of Land Rovers and quite a few homes of policemen were burnt down. We were told that very same night to stay in the residential area to investigate all incidents of violence in the area.
	There were also members of the Defence Force and the uniform branch operating in the area, but we were instructed to investigate these incidents of violence. As a result of our investigations we came into contact with many of these organisations and their members.  A state of emergency was declared at some point.  I attended various meetings where the Police, Defence Force and the various town councils were present and there it was planned how these riots and incidents of violence could be combated.  
	Amongst other things, instructions were given as to how funerals should be conducted in these townships. Prior notice was given to the family and the organisers of the funeral as to how the funerals should take place.  It happened that some people took no notice of these state of emergency regulations. On one occasion Archbishop Desmond Tutu was present as well.  On one of these occasions when people ignored the state of emergency, but after talks with 
the Archbishop buses for the people going to the funerals were arranged.  
	I also contacted Penny Moshoego, a secretary of the UDF, after she had resigned from the UDF, and she told me that their aim with the violence, boycotts, strikes, et cetera, was to paralyse the government, and to enable the UDF and the ANC to topple the government.