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Brigadier, this starts on page 56.   It isa document containing the following.   It is a conversation withChris Hani who was a member of the Executive Council of the ANC,he was also the army commissar of MK, it was published in Sitraba(?)during December 1986 in the ...I want to ask you to read it brieflyor in part from this document.   My apologies this is from theFoundation for Equality Before the Law, I referred you to thewrong document.   Mr Chairman that's the presentation that wasmade by the Stigting ...voor die Reg, before the Truth Commission,it is part of that document before the Human Rights ViolationsCommission.   Foundation for Equality before the Law.  Brigadiercould you then begin to read in the middle of the page that isunderlined, the question asked "...6 has been declared theyear of Umkhonto we Sizwe, what do you think has been the progressand achievement of MK in the military field.   Could you justread from there please?   This is on page 56, the middle parthas an underlined sentence, can you see this?    If you can startfrom "if we go back"?
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  "If we go back to the days when the President of the AfricanNational Congress, who is in fact the Commander-in-Chief of Umkhontowe Sizwe, designated it we shall remember that this is the yearof Umkhonto we Sizwe, the people's army, for the following reasons;
  it has become very clear that the enemy has no other optionin the solution of the problems of the country except violenceand we also know that
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   the tensions, the escalation of the militant resistance ofour people has been the violent response of the enemy.   In theface of the escalating violence of the enemy, the revolutionaryviolence of the people becomes very, very important and we knowthat the revolutionary violence of the oppressed people of ourcountry is epitomised by MK is the revolutionary violent arm ofour people.   The designation of the year as the year of MK isa clarion call to the people's army, MK, to escalate the armedstruggle.   Now you are asking what have we achieved in the militaryfield, I believe in all modesty that MK has become a permanentfeature of the struggle of our national liberation and socialemancipation, we have enriched the struggles of our people byintroducing the armed element.   The enemy statement itself hasadmitted openly that 1986 has seen an unprecedented escalationof armed struggle.   I believe we have taken the armed struggletoday to every corner of our country.   We have, for instance,spread the armed struggle to areas which in the past few yearswere not affected by armed struggle.   We know that for a longtime the armed struggle tended to be confined to the Transvaaland Natal but this year our units have spread armed activitiesto the whole of the Cape Province as well as to the Orange FreeState.  Our units have been in action in the Western Cape attackingpolice stations and installations of the enemy.   What is importantis that we have
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   converged with the forces on the ground, what I mean by thisis that the militant upsurge of our people has thrown up thousandsof activists, who have reached the same conclusion as the ANC,that the crucial aspect of our struggle is the armed one.   Wehave got young militants literally numbering thousands confrontingthe enemy.   At the beginning of course, these militant youthsconfronted the enemy with stones, petrol bombs but now we haveintroduced an armed element to the militancy of our young people.  We have introduced hand grenades.   I think this has deepenedthe development of the process we began to see last year, thegrowing ungovernability of our country as a result of the armedelement of the struggle, including MK and other armed units, militaryunits of our people which are born out of the struggle.   Ourpeople have utilised the skills we have imparted on them, dealwith the police, community councils, collaborationist elements,by so doing we have rendered most townships ungovernable."