MR GERBER
A month or so after this  unfortunate incident Oosthuizen and myself and a former member of the Task Force met at a small bar near our offices.  Oosthuizen then reprimanded me for the way in which I was conducting my investigations.  He thought that he knew better because he was one of Eugene de Kock's men and they dealt with matters very differently, and he also tackled me about a written warning which I had given him, this is now after the murder, a warning regarding his conduct and his way of working.   He often disappeared and I wouldn't know where he was.  The next moment he pulled out his firearm.  I was standing  opposite him.  He aimed it at my head and cocked it.  I knew  that there was a bullet in the barrel.  That's the way we worked.  And myself and Mr John Cook reprimanded him and told him to stop playing these games.   He kept attacking me and tackling me about this letter which  I had sent him, a notice, and he once again aimed his firearm at me.  I then had my firearm behind my back and I removed the safety catch at some stage.  I also had a bullet in my firearm and I then - when he aimed his pistol at me I shot him through the shoulder.  I could have killed him if I wanted to.   He fell to the ground.  His firearm was in front of him and I removed it from him.
	He was later admitted  to a clinic in Johannesburg.  An emergency operation was performed on him.  I visited him but he was still in the operating theatre, and I decided to just leave matters as they were  until such time as  he contacted me and that is what I did.  
	He then contacted me on a Sunday after this incident.  The  incident itself happened on a Thursday evening.  At that stage I hadn't reported the incident  to my top management.  Upon my arrival at the hospital with Mr Cook, who had also been present that evening, Oosthuizen suggested that he was going to report the matter.  He was going to say that he had been attacked by an unknown assailant in a little quiet street in Hillbrow.  I told him to do what he thought best.  I then returned on the Monday and reported the shooting incident to my management.  As a  result of my senior  position in the company they decided to suspend and Oosthuizen as well.  I then later learnt that Oosthuizen had laid a charge of attempted murder against me at the Hillbrow Police Station.  I made a complete statement regarding this incident and as a result of this statement in which I had explained all the circumstances, the senior state prosecutor declined to prosecute. 
	I then broke off all contact with Oosthuizen.  After my suspension I resigned and I left Fidelity Guards.