MR VAN DER MERWE
Yes, I think we must not at this stage confuse the normal duties of a policeman and the normal duties of the security policeman, because somehow I don't think they were the same.  But I think what - to restore law and order for a normal policeman during the 1980s would have been something different than restoring law and order for a security policeman.  Because as we have already heard Mr Nieuwoudt say that he regarded the security police as above the law.  When there was conflict between the interests of the National Party Government and law and order, the National Party Government's interests would take precedence.
	As such it was of utmost importance for the National Party to retain their power base and their support amongst the White community, to clamp down on the consumer boycott, which was really hurting the White people in the area and not really doing anything in the non-White people.