MR NTSEBEZA
In fact I have a report from the Cape Times at the time which led with an article that puts the whole period in perspective.
 As I say almost to the day, not almost, virtually to the, not virtually, to the day this Cape Times leader was on Wednesday, June the 11th, 1986.  It says "National Scandal".  It is a long report, but it says clearly something that any police person, any police person let alone one who was in charge of an area in which this specific instances had taken place, would have been quite concerned about.
 For instance it says the discrepancies between official and independent accounts of what has been happening, are so striking that the need for clarity can no longer be denied.  If President Botha has any respect for the intelligence of the public he claims to serve, he will immediately appoint a commission.
 Wholly irreconcilable versions which were barred from the public are specific allegations that the police had been siding with the "witdoek" vigilantes against the comrades and Crossroads refugees in the (indistinct)
 This from on the spot clergymen and others who have been named in newspaper reports and affidavits.  And a general denial of these allegations maintaining that the police have been impartially holding the line between the warring groups, this from the police.
 It goes on to say that in this week's disgraceful events those are the words of that paper, and not mine, in this week's disgraceful events for example the following statements have been made by reliable witnesses.
 The Reverend John Freeth, this is what he is reported to be saying.  We saw police covering the "witdoeke" and firing on the defending shacks.  The Reverend John Freeth, it was very clear that the "witdoeke" were operating under police protection.
 The Reverend David Cook right in front of us there were three caspers.  No attempt was made to stop the looting, the burning and the fighting.  I saw a policeman shooting with a rifle into KTC defenders to prevent them from defending their property.
 Father Desmond Currin, St Gabriels, this very church, Guguletu and Mrs Emma Huysmans, editor of Crisis News said that police vans and a casper escorted the vigilantes on their way to attack the Zwolani Centre every step of the way.  The Centre had been housing Crossroads refugees and was destroyed by fire and attack.
 The police will reply, they issued blanket denials.  Either these respected eye-witnesses are deluded or shameless liars.  Or else, police spokesman do not have all the facts to their disposal.  It is inconceivable that the police would deliberately tell lies to the public.
 Now, this was a leader page of the Cape Times on Wednesday, the 11th of June 1986.  It is a leader page that you possibly did or did not read.