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transporting defence force staff. The attack was approximately 150m from a Swaziland Defence Force base 
and we could not hang around there for too long, so the house was not searched thoroughly. 
	After the operation we went back to Oshoek and crossed the border near the border post back into 
the Republic. Thereafter I contacted Brigadier Schoon and informed him that we had killed two persons. 
	The following morning De Kok and I drove to Pretoria where I handed the documents which we 
had seized to General Steenkamp. Before I left I had arranged that Geoff Besigu be treated in the Ermelo 
Hospital. Thereafter I was merited with an award for outstanding service and also De Kok, Van Dyk, 
Pienaar and Rohrig. Geoff Besigu and Nofamela were both promoted to the ranks of sergeant as well as Joe 
Mamasela. 	Mamasela played a big role in the preliminary investigation into Nyanda but he was not 
there that night and for this reason he was also promoted. The medals which were awarded to me were 
handed over by the ex-Minister of police,  Louis LeGrange. 
	When I entered the room where McFadden, the man whom I had shot, and I hadn't known at that 
stage, I had no choice but to shoot at him. I did not know whether he was armed or not and whether he 
would have shot me or not. The normal reaction in such a case is to shoot. We expected that everyone 
should have been armed, everyone inside the house, and where such an attack was launched, there was no 
time to ask the person whether or not they were armed first. I assumed that he was a member of the ANC - 
that he assisted Nyanda and that he would probably have been armed. 
	This operation has to be seen in the light of the 
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