MR TERRE'BLANCHE IN REPLY
Yes, thank you very much Mr Chairperson, I would just like to again repeat that my total political conviction rightly or wrongly is being driven by my education emotionally and my belief in the living God.  I thank you in reaction to the statement of the honourable lady, it did say that there are groupings to whom politics are of great importance.  Nobody will deny that it is a killing game politically, which took place for 600 years in England.
	I am referring to the Irish who are Catholics and the crown.  To a certain extent the Boers also see themselves as old testament people.  I know you may find it strange but I would like to say to you in honesty that religion, the Boers' religion, naturally and its politics are very closely related and that is why the Boer in his constitution wrote that he is dependent and that he subject to God the Trinity who is determining peoples' lives.  We believe that God determines the fate of each nation and people and in this case God was asked to determine the fate of the Boer people who were only 440 in an onslaught.  The Lord was asked not only to become involved in politics but also the war politically also, but there were negotiations between the trekkers and the Zulus but that move towards war and in that war God was asked to become part of politics and the war and he bound himself by saying that we should tell our children in years to come that God at the Blood River won this war, which was the cruellest form of political strife.
	If I was not in politics, Honourable Chairperson, and if there was not an AWB, Van Jaarsveld would not have been tarred and feathered because then there would not have been a political standpoint by a body who carried this out and did not enable us to resist.  Somebody who was further from politics and somebody who would have seen the elements of politics because he involved himself in the bible in the same way that Mr van Jaarsveld said here, Mr van Jaarsveld involved himself in the history of politics.  The history is the placing on record the situation of what happened, conventions that were entered into, land being claimed and land being lost that is exactly what history is all about.  It is the placing on the record and the archiving of the political history and past with regard to the political past of the Boer people at Blood River, the historian said to the opponents of the Boer people not to trust God because he was present at Blood River.
	In other words the argument of the AWB and the Trinity, that argument was taken away from the AWB if Van Jaarsveld's paper was accepted.  With the information at my disposal, I would like to say that it was the strongest political onslaught ever on the foundations of which the Boer peoples' total struggle was to be justified to the world.  If the Lord gave the victory which was asked for and whether it was the competency of the Boers there, the fact nevertheless remains that the Boers asked that God should save them and the Generals who were also the political leaders then found this victory.  Who then am I or Van Jaarsveld or those coming after him to say that it was not God who heard their, listened to their prayers.
	If God is being asked to hear your prayers and he listens to them, who are you or anybody else to say "No, God, I have asked you but I was the good and competent General" or "God I have asked you but Pretorius put up a lager in a very special way.  It is not about which religion, to which religion people belong, but the principle of religious freedom and the right that for one to exercise one's religion and that the Lord has heard your prayers.  That should be protected and if it is being protected, it is politics, then it is a political act being made by Parliament saying to people you have religious freedom and if then you question another person's right and that person stands up and he commits a crime, a political crime, then it brings me here before you today.  I believe more essentially this case than the other two cases in which I would like to stand up for my God, my people and my fatherland by means of the tarring and feathering of Professor van Jaarsveld.  I thank you for your patience.