JEREMY CRONIN
No, I think it would be fair to say that the broader constituency on the ground of the ANC and of the South African Communist Party - certainly large sections of them, were often extremely sceptical about the negotiations process.
	I think that the scepticism had a great deal to do with the low-intensity conflict that was going on with townships in particular - many townships.  I remember personally addressing meetings - SACP branch meetings of COSATU shop steward locals.   
	I was one of the people involved in the negotiations process and I remember having to answer repeatedly, questions from this base constituency.  People would say: "You are having tea and biscuits with FW de Klerk, we are dying like flies in the townships, how can you suspend the armed struggle, how can you negotiate with the enemy" and so a great deal of our time was spent on persuading our constituency of the importance of the negotiations process.
	And I think that probably the leading personality in this process of trying to win over the ANC constituency to the negotiations process, was Chris Hani himself.  He came with impeccable credentials as a militant, as someone that - when the armed struggle had been under way, had fought very courageously and so he used those credentials precisely to say - and there's documentary evidence in the submission that we've made, to show that he's saying to many, many audiences - diverse audiences but not least to township audiences, that we must give peace a chance, that we must take the negotiations very seriously.  
	And above all he kept repeating: "Do not fall into the provocation trap, those who don't want to see majority rule - a non-racial dispensation in our country, are trying to provoke us into restarting an armed struggle, we must not allow that to happen".  So, I think that was the general position of the leadership but in the face certainly, of scepticism from rank and file members.