JACOBUS JOHANNES DE RU
Your honour, the whole planning was that these people had to be arrested.  It was also the main purpose why I got Fouche to infiltrate them in order to get as much information about them as possible.  I would also like to mention that before this incident of the evening of the 6th we asked the Security Branch in Sasolburg, asked them for money in order to buy weapons but they could not provide us and then we decided to go to Eikenhof to approach them in order to help us.  They were contacted and came to my office to help us.  In the office it was myself, Sergeant Fouche and Lieutenant Botha of the Security Branch in Vereeniging.  Sergeant Fouche told me that during one evening in Heidelberg where they looked at weapons once again, a police official came and sold weapons to these people or wanted to buy from them and the impression that he got is that the Police and these members smuggle weapons together.
	When the Eikenhof people stopped and got out of their vehicles, Fouche identified one of the people as one of them who on the previous evening was there at Heidelberg concerning these weapon transactions and he was very worried that he would now be identified.  I realised that the situation now that Fouche's life is now in danger.  I told him to get into a cupboard in my office in order for him to hide there and then I told Warrant Officer Swanepoel of Eikenhof that we cannot continue with these actions because the informant has not yet arrived.  It was merely done because I was now aware that some of these members could possibly be involved in the smuggling of weapons.  At that stage I also had knowledge that various shotguns were gone or were stolen from the Sebokeng Municipal Police which had similar markings or was engraved in a similar fashion as the one that I knew of.  Botha confirmed that the suspect worked with them at that stage and was regularly seen with the people from Eikenhof.