MR MHLABA COMMITTEE
I can briefly address the Committee.  Thank you, Mr Chairman.
	The applicant has submitted an application which I submit is in accordance with the enabling legislation.  The applicant states that he committed this very offence with a political objective.  
	There is evidence here which remains undisputed, that he was a member of the SDU which was the formation of the ANC and there is further evidence that he was given instructions, or it was collective resolutions taken in their meetings that police and the members of the South African Defence Force were legitimate targets of the people and their political organisation.
	Mr Chairman, it was further stated that it was resolved that in order to protect the people and the community, they needed to find arms.  And the place where they could get those arms was to disarm the police and the members of the South African Defence Force.