H J P BOTHA
At that stage the thought did arise in my mind that Shabalala should possibly be eliminated.  Chairperson, at that stage in 1990, we had already performed many similar operations and depending on the circumstances you could anticipate what the consequences of a particular action would be and the thought of the possible elimination of Shabalala was there in my mind.  At the safe-house I continued to speak to Ndaba to try to make a plan to place him back in the operation safely.  His suggestion was that he should stay with me in the safe-house until Tuesday the 10th of July 1990.  On that day, he arranged for a fall back date with Shabalala, should one of them not attend the meeting of the Saturday the 7th of July 1990.  This arrangement, this pre-existing arrangement suited me.  I agreed with the suggestion because it would give us time to perhaps monitor the situation an to try and ascertain whether there were any danger signals for Ndaba as a result of the arrest of Shabalala and his own arrest on that Saturday morning.  The plan which we formulated was that Ndaba after that Tuesday would report to the ANC that Shabalala had not attended either of the meetings and that he suspected that there could possibly be problems.  In my view that would take the focus away from him and in the meantime he would have the opportunity to ascertain whether he was safe or not.  The plan presupposed that Shabalala should not be released, in other words that we would have to detain him for an unlimited period or to eliminate him.
	I once again informed Gen Steyn of the latest developments and he supported the proposition or the proposal.