MS COLLETT
There was no purpose, I do not concede by any means that they had a political objective but I'm saying that should this Committee find that they did by virtue of the fact that they sang freedom songs and whatever, I'm saying that there's no justification for the criminal offences that they committed, none at all, because on their own version the reasons that they wanted those persons there was to show a unified front.  If that was the case then the unified front that the continued to show until the next morning would have been having those officers in the hall drinking tea.  I don't know, singing freedom songs, dancing, throwing a party, whatever.  But to subject them to lack of freedom of movement, an invasion of their privacy, deprivation of their dignity, all the violations which were entrenched in the then Ciskei
constitution in any event and in the interim constitution was nothing tantamount to criminal violations.  There's no political justification for that.