CAPT MENTZ
Yes Mr Chairman.  As I've already testified  he was a freedom fighter who had been 
arrested, who had been turned into an ascari, who had decided to work with the police which he had indeed 
then done.  He had been transferred from Vlakplaas to Headquarters at C2.	The reasons for this 
and the period when this happened, I don't know, but then he worked for a unit where there were
very sensitive information and documentation and if he had been leaking this information to ANC, PAC 
whichever liberation organisation, this turned him into a political problem.  He was affecting the National 
Party by working for these other parties and for the police on the one hand and for example, the ANC on 
the other hand.
	He had sensitive information, policemen's houses were burnt down, we've heard much testimony 
to this effect, people were attacked when people found out that somebody was an informant.  When 
informers were exposed, they were necklaced, they were burnt, their throats were cut, they were shot, their 
families were attacked, so he was - he just had to be eliminated.  You couldn't charge the man and take him 
to court because what proof was there, I was not in a position to question this.  The thing to eliminate him, 
was 
PRETORIA HEARING	AMNESTY/