MONTEGUESA BEGUISE NTULI
Chairperson, thank you very much for granting me this opportunity.  Since Cosatu's formation it so happened that many members in different places of employment, like firms in Empangeni etc., were attacked by members of the IFP because Cosatu was perceived as a movement that perpetuated the aims of the ANC which was banned at the time.
	There was also the UDF and MDM.  The situation was very tense and in 1990 after the ANC was unbanned, ...[indistinct] the SACP, the atmosphere politically speaking intensified.  Many people who were members of unions, especially at the company where I was working and where I am still employed but at that time I was working as a shop steward.  Every weekend we used to bury people in their large numbers.
	The political climate at our area was such that one would never know who would die the following day.  The climate was very tense and this led to what experience I went through, where the IFP were attacking us.  Shortly, this is how the political climate was at the area, at the region where I was Chairperson of Cosatu.