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And I would also just like to say that my motive to, when one looks at these people who tried to overthrow the Government and through their acts that they did, that I tried to stop them so that I could keep the Government of the day in power and later on, I was informed by Voigt and the officers later on that it was approved and that I would be protected.  These acts and instructions, I now see them as unlawful, but not then.  Then it was part of my duties and in investigation of attacks and murders on farmers and that I believed that I was actually promoting stability in the rural area and to try to keep the Government in power and that you will see my acts in this regard.
	I believed in the policy of the National Party, the apartheid policy and I believed that I had to do my duty as best I possibly can.  I also believed that in every instance I acted to the benefit of the Government and the White community, especially the farmers and the aged people and that my contribution or that my acts contributed to keep the Government in power.  
	Your Honours, you already have knowledge of the testimony of General van der Merwe and this also applies to me.  I am only going to mention a small part of this.  The opinion of members of the security on grassroots level that they had approval of the previous Government, that they actually could commit these acts, were justified.  
	I also want to mention to you that in his testimony that there were never reports with true facts as now presented to the Truth Commission and he also said that that fact that there was not any action taken against these members, could also lead to these beliefs as I already 
mentioned it to you.  I realise today that I was involved in a war to keep the Government and apartheid in power.  I was loyal and I had belief in the South African Police and the whole system of the Government and I would follow that at all costs and I would also have protected and defended it.  I did my duties in such a way and I believed in what I did and that I believed that it was right and it was good and that it was approved by my heads and I believed that all attacks on farmers were politically motivated and that it was part of the ANC and PAC and that they were seen as soft targets.  
	Your Honour, I want to conclude, I want to quote from the Honourable Benjamin Franklin, 
"When you have an injustice against someone, it places you as the same as your enemy and to forgive someone, places you above him".
I ask you and the Commission to forgive me and also the friends and family of the victims to forgive me.  I would also like to ask my colleagues, my parents, my parents-in-law, my children and my family as well as my wife and also the Afrikaner community who I served to the best of my ability.  
	I thank you for the opportunity to come and testify before you.  I also thank each person present here for their support, as well as Advocate Becker of the State Attorney's office and the investigators there.  And I also ask the family and friends of the deceased and thank them for their attitude of forgiveness towards me.  I also thank the Afrikaners and the aged in Koppies, Parys, Heilbron and the whole district of Kroonstad who supported me in my application.  And also express my thanks to the Free State Agricultural Union for the letter which they also lodged to this Commission and which will be submitted by my legal representative and for everything which was done for me and my family.  Thank you your Honour.