ROBERT JOHN MCBRIDE
Yes.
	"For all of the above operations, I accept political and general responsibility for them.   For people who acted under my command, whether they carried it out without my assistance or specific instructions.  They were people who were trained and educated in the policies of the ANC, by me, and hence I take responsibility for these actions and support their respective applications for amnesty on these operations.  On behalf of all those who acted under my command, and on behalf of the ANC, I wish to state on record that I truly regret the injury and death that I have caused during the pursuance of the armed struggle, whether directly or indirectly.   
	An issue appeared to have arisen during the evidence given during this hearing, as to why two operations are placed in chapter 5 of the ANC submissions, namely the Klein incident and the Pine Parkade incident.  The explanation inter alia is that all the incidents for which I have been convicted, I had applied for amnesty for.  I did not state these specifically in my application form, but rather refer to my indictment.   Hence, during the compilation of the ANC submissions, the ANC was unable to ascribe responsibility mainly because they did not have my trial records, which included the indictment and wherein these cases were outlined.  Hence, as an administrative error, these were placed elsewhere.  
	In any case, all these acts, including these two have been supported by my Commander, Aboobaker Ismail, comrade Rashid.  As will clearly be noted, the versions and attitude on all these operations in my trial evidence, differs from my present evidence.  One of the main reasons for these differences is that during the trial, I was really being tried for my life, and I was facing four charges of murder, five of attempted murder and various other serious charges.   
	My being an ANC member would in itself have aggravated my position in the eyes of the Trial Bench.  If I had testified that I was instructed to carry out the Why Not operation, as now testified by my Commander, comrade Rashid, it is obvious that there would have been no extenuating circumstances found as premeditation would have been common cause, previous MK guerrillas who were tried for cases of murder in which it was established that instructions were given, were convicted and sentenced to death.  They usually were hanged.  In one such case, a person was sentenced to death for what is tantamount to Contempt of Court charge, he had not killed anybody and here I speak of James Maunge.  This was the atmosphere in the country at that time.  I also wanted to protect my organisation by not talking about them and their instructions to me.  Hence I did not refer to instructions during my trial with regard to this operation.  
	In addition to this, I as an oppressed person did not feel that there is any moral imperative or onus on me to have to be truthful or honourable with the regime that oppresses me and uses its judiciary to perpetuate discrimination and oppression against me, with unjust laws and unjust people trying me.  The situation is different to the situation I now face in this hearing.  All these operations took place a long time ago.  My recollection therefore suffers as a result.  These operations were carried out under tense conditions and were akin to warlike operations.  For this reason as well, my exact recollection is not always precise."