MR DEHAL
Then on page 108 if you will please go slowly, because the Interpreters are having some difficulties, start on the top with "it was accepted both during the trial ..."
R McBRIDE
	"It was accepted both during the trial and later during the hearing held in terms of the Indemnity Act, that the motives for my involvement in all operations for which I was charged, were political, not personal.  At trial I was charged and convicted of attempting to overthrow or endanger State authority in the Republic and to achieve, bring about or promote constitutional, political, industrial and or economic change in the Republic.  The Why Not car bomb operation was carried out on the 14th of June 1986, during a period of extreme political upheaval in South Africa, which had culminated in the declaration of a nation wide state of emergency on June the 12th.  Among other things, the declaration of the state of emergency was an acknowledgement by the then government of the extent of the turmoil in the country.   State of emergency granted unlimited powers to the Security Forces and indemnity from prosecution for acts carried out during this period.  The operation also took place within the context of the ANC's organised political uprising against the minority government of the day.  Within this, it is important to look at the following factors - one year previously to the day, the Security Forces had raided Gaberone in Botswana, killing 12 people, two Botswana citizens, one Somalian, one six year old child from Lesotho and eight South Africans.  Of the South Africans, eight were ANC members, none of them were MK combatants.  The addition of the Setchaba following this attack, the editorial stated the following - the struggle of the people of South Africa will be intensified at all costs.  The time has come when we should avenge our martyrs.  In addition the 1985 conference of the ANC held in Kabwe had decided that the distinction between soft and hard targets should disappear.  An article from Setchaba at the time, outlines some of the reasoning behind this."