MR SNYMAN
Your Honour, the goals of the security branch as one of the structures of the National Party Government, had been to maintain internal safety and security by means of combating terrorism and protecting the State order against expansion of Communism which found expression in the activities of the liberation organisations;  the ANC/SACP alliance, the PAC, the Black Consciousness Movement and the South African Students' Organisation as well their military wings;  Umkhonto weSizwe, APLA and BCN and the struggle which they waged in order, by
violent means, to subvert the status quo.  
	In this process we found it necessary to detain people, to arrest people and detain them, to interrogate them in order to restrain the activities of the organisations mentioned and to prevent the overthrow of the then State order by means of violence.