OBED BAPELA
Consumer boycotts and rent boycotts were not violent.  Those were very peaceful means of advancing our struggle for a better life, of advancing our struggle for
ALEXANDRA HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
24 BAPELA
freedom.  And I think we used them as peaceful means really to send a message to the then previous regime of South Africa and I don't agree with those who are applying for amnesty who say they were responding to a situation.  They had legal ways of dealing with a situation, they had those legal - the courts were in their favour, the justice was in their favour, and then they had all range of laws that they could have utilised to ensure therefore that they bring to whatever stop but not the covert methods that they used of killing and attacking people at night without arresting them.