JEAN DU PLESSIS
Well, it wasn't part of my planning, in particular not at that stage, that innocent people should die.  Particularly, that our own people, White people should have died. That I felt was another tragedy. I felt that we would never be able to justify that, to people who were expecting to support us at that stage. I tried to wish it away.  I tried to tell myself that this was the fate of war, but it upset me terribly.  Naturally I became very concerned, and I couldn't give as a strong a leadership as I wanted to.