MR BOTHA
Mr Chairman, how could it be revenge? They didn't act against me personally. If somebody perpetrates an injustice against me and I hit back, then it's personal, and I can say that is vengeance, that's revenge but this was an attack by a Black political organisation against Whites. And they attacked them simply because they were White.
And in the prevailing climate of that time, one of political violence and increasing crime, it was my aim to bring home the point that attacks of this kind in which the simple factor was that a Black organisations attacked Whites because they were White hat such attacks should not be allowed. And the whole aim of my attack was to bring that point home to both the PAC and the government against whom we had declared war.