PHINEAS NDLOVU
As I have indicated before, it was chaotic, because police could not render us service that we so much required.  And one disturbing element is that police in fact, we had agreements before with them.  As student congress we used to go out and disarm our fellow brothers of weapons of that, weapons that killed our nation and we took those weapons, and handed them over to the police.  But in return the police were not to be trusted.  They took those very same weapons and gave it to gang members.  So as to fight comrades.  So this was the reason why the police could no longer be trusted and their effectiveness thereof was not
felt by us as a community.  
	And I should further state that upon realising this, there was a call that was made through the underground movement, the publications of Sichaba that police who were residing in our areas, because really, there was no one who was in the middle during the struggle. It is either you were with us or you were with the enemy.  So police had already chosen their side.  By the mere virtue of being a police and being on the other side of race, we would take you as a traitor and a collaborator.  And when the era came that we should read of policeman who were residing with us, stooges, informers and all that, it is then that we realised that the error that we made, we have armed people that could use these weapons effectively or worse, in maiming us, people who are trying to create an environment that is free for the launching of freedom of our people.