MR SNYMAN
"1.  The purpose of a security branch as part of the power base of the National Party Government, was the maintenance of internal security by means of countering
terrorism and protecting the then State
order, namely the National Party 
Government and State structures against 
Communist expansionism as identified in 
the so-called liberation organisations;  that
 is the ANC/SACP alliance and the PAC as 
well as Black Power or Black 
Consciousness Organisations, namely the 
BPC and SASO, as well as their armed
 wings, Umkhonto weSizwe, APLA and 
TBCM which had tempted with violence to 
overthrow the Government of the day and
 to take over Government."