DAVID ZHELI DLAMINI
Chairperson I would say that after a while after all these activities had occurred, whilst I was still in Johannesburg Mr Delatolo Nthuli came to me and he told me that there were programmes being launched, such programmes that were intended at reconciliation and he felt that as we were on the run from the police that it was time that the truth was exposed. That we should expose information on all our activities and he also explained what the Truth Commission was about. That I would not be arrested. I asked him because I had such hideous crimes: "Are you sure that I would not be arrested?" And he assured me that I would not be as long as I would tell the whole truth. I then agreed. In fact I asked them to give me a day to think about it. They left and returned on the following day. They asked me if I had made up my mind, if I was in or out. And I said after careful consideration I have decided to join in. I was then taken to the head of the ITU, Colonel Dodson. I contacted him from Johannesburg. We discussed about this matters at length. Discussing that which I should expose everything that I knew about. Because Dodson was the person who was investigating hit squad activities in KwaZulu Natal. I would say that is how I came to the witness protection programme.