ABOOBAKER ISMAIL
Mr Chairperson and Honourable Member, the Morogoro reiterated again the centrality of the struggle.  We had the Wankie campaigns and by that time the SADF had been actively also involved in assisting the Rhodesian regime and the military increasingly was identified as targets.
	As one went forward and we came to the period of 1976 with the shooting of innocent school children protesting against the use of apartheid in Soweto, the ANC from then on made it absolutely clear that the police and the SADF were legitimate targets.  In fact by 1978/'79 there had been a number of deliberate attacks against police stations in the Soweto area and also in the white areas, in Booysens for instance where policemen were injured or killed.
	So already then the thrust of it was there that enemy personnel, police, defence force members, were legitimate targets and from then on all of the training we received, the instructions we received, were to target enemy personnel with the Mandate given to us by the ANC.
	And in discussions with comrade Slovo we said we had gone through attacking the oil refineries, we had attacked the power stations, we had carried out other attacks, we had attacked Voortrekkerhoogte.  And the feeling was, we needed to really make the enemy security forces bleed.  They were very callous in their treatment of the civilian population in the country, especially the black civilian population.
	One understand the way in which they may have dealt with MK cadres.  Matola we understand, yes we were living in a residence, we didn't have a base in Mozambique but we understood that but we then said we have to make it quite clear, they could not think they could go on doing what they wanted to any which way and that they who had the guns were the only ones that could shoot.
	Because until then, if you looked at the struggle, was it yielding the kind of results.  The ANC statements all point to the need to show the people that the enemy bled.  We had to show the racist regime that they would not go unchallenged.  We had to make them bleed and that is what we intended to do.