MR DEHAL
Mr Chairperson, whilst it seems evident that my learned colleague is endeavouring to establish what the ANC's policy approach was on this issue, namely that which is termed Magoo's bar/Why Not operation, perhaps it would be prudent at this stage to have regard to a ...(indistinct) my learned colleague does not have and which contains the policy on this issue pertinently, and this is the Security Force hearings on page 57.  It's a document that I have.  I don't know whether the Evidence Leader gave it to me.  I presume that the Honourable Members have them as well.  In it the Magoo's bar issue is dealt with and Mac Maharaj, Mr Mac Maharaj says the following
"I thought I had indicated that the enemy forces were often located in commercial or civilian areas.  In this particular case whatever was the actual outcome (by particular case he means the Magoo's bar issue), in this particular case whatever was the actual outcome, the fact of the matter was that the comrades who acted on this target had intelligence, tactical intelligence, suggesting that the Security Forces when on or off duty congregated at this venue.  So that was the basis on which they had acted.  And if they had acted on that basis, then they were in line with the practical problems that I had outlined, that we were facing in the country."