MR BRINK
"It is true that the lack of political vision of the Government had plunged South Africa into a hopeless situation of violence and turmoil.  The police were always too scared or too proud to admit failure.  This hopeless situation had gone into despair and panic.  I used to sit and watch the hierarchy of the SADF and the SAP at joint meetings on unrest in Natal and see them at their wits' ends."