VAKELE ARCHIBALD MKOSANA
During September 1992 I held the rank of a Lieutenant Colonel in the former Ciskei Defence Force.  The political and security situation in that former Ciskei State was very tense and potential of violence between the ANC and the then government of Ciskei was rife.  I, as is indicated above, I'm a professional soldier which career I embarked since I was 21 years old.  I regarded it as my duty to perform the orders and duties of soldiers assigned to me.  	It is public knowledge that during 1992 soldiers serving in the security forces of the Republic of Ciskei was regarded as traitors and puppets by their fellow black people including members of one's own family and friends.  In whatever neighbourhood one resided attacks upon soldiers and their families and social and political pressures directed against soldiers were nearly unendurable.  At that same time I was, as I have already testified to on the 11th September 1996 before the Honourable Truth and Reconciliation Commission, suspected of being an informer and traitor to the cause of the ANC.  This was in fact not true.
	A march was planned by the ANC, SACP and COSATU alliance which was, so we were informed, to take over the Ciskei State under grave and very tense circumstances, I was commissioned to act as a field commander during the occurrency of this march.  Initially I was informed that the Ciskei government has an uncompromising and stubborn approach and that we were not allowed the march to cross beyond the borders between South Africa and Ciskei.  For the background, I think that's all, Sir.