MR VAN DER MERWE
Yes, I think it is a political goal, because if you look at the surrounding circumstances this was part of - that will come clear from the rest of Mr Nieuwoudt's application which wasn't read out, that the consumer boycott was part of the bigger struggle and part of the bigger onslaught, if you can call it that, to use the rhetoric which was used by the organisations such as the ANC, PAC and UDF at that stage, to try and create the system in the townships which would make them ungovernable and which they then could substitute the unlawful government, as they would call it at that stage, with legitimate structures from the people in the townships.