A J G ERWEE
That is correct, that is the next step.  That is what the explosives experts were supposed to do.  It was their task, after having pushed back the vehicle down to the low-water bridge, to remove the corpses from the mini-bus and to secure all the other explosive devices.  Immediately afterwards I sent Col Dreyer to Alldays to contact Col Willem van der Merwe and Brig Coetsee by telephone and to tell them that the incident had not turned out successfully as planned; that Capt Bourne had been shot and that the six passengers of the vehicle had been killed, and that Sgt Matthews Sehlwana and the Defence Force member who had thrown the teargas grenade were safe.  I did not send this information by means of a radio message because I knew that my seniors were worried about this incident and I wanted to reassure them.