MR BOTHA
No. The composition of the Orde Boerevolk was like this. When I took my oath, I was instructed to establish a cell. They told me they did not want to know who I was recruiting as members of my cell. The reason for this is that what one doesn't know about one cannot tell about - it was an underground movement. They also told me that each cell was independent of the others.
The purpose of this was that if something should happen as happened in my case, in which my cell was destroyed, I had no information which could endanger other cells which had been established throughout the country because I didn't know of their existence. And when I recruited my members for my cell, Messrs. Smuts and Marais met each other for the first time on the evening - eve of the attack.