JEREMY CRONIN
Because we were banned as - long before the Communist Party had got involved in an armed struggle, we were banned.  We were banned in 1950, so being banned and therefore having to operate underground, had nothing to do with violence, it had everything to do with the distaste that the apartheid regime had for the kind of politics that we had.
	And the attempt - therefore, to outlaw any legitimate opposition particularly that of expressing the views of the majority of Black people in our country.  That's why we had to operate in the - we didn't choose to operate in the underground - it's not pleasant operating in the underground, it's much better being out in the open but we were forced into the circumstance - that is the short answer to your questions.