JOHAN VAN EYCK
I was 16 years old.  I served in Brakpan before going to the Police College in 1971, where I received training.  I was then transferred to the Benoni Police Station. I was in the uniform branch.  In 1973 I received training at Groblersdal in the combating of terrorism.  Thereafter I was sent to the Caprivi, where I performed my border duties.
	During my training at Viljoenskop, we were made aware of the armed assault aimed against our country, and that was the reason why we were serving in the Caprivi, to avert this onslaught.
	In 1974, I performed border duty on two different occasions, in the then Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe. My duties were still the same, the combating of terrorism.
	  When I arrived back in the country I was transferred to another police station where I worked for a time.  Before I was approached by officers in the Police and asked whether I wanted to join Murder and Robbery. Initially I didn't want to, because I enjoyed my work, but they persuaded me and I joined the detective branch.  
	My duties entailed the investigating of crime and I there encountered the various methods of interrogation, amongst others, the use of shock machines, sacks pulled over the head, et cetera.  
	In 1976 I was also involved in the combating of riots in the Black townships.  We encountered violence on a daily basis.  Vehicles were damaged, burnt.  The people who were regarded as police informers were killed.