MR ERASMUS
Mr Chairman I was born in Fraserburg on the 28th of August 1936.  Like the most Afrikaans speaking people I grew up in a conservative Afrikaner home.  We were all members of the Dutch Reformed Church and when we grew up we were supporters of the National Party.  My parents and if I remember correctly, my mother, she became 70 years old and till late in her life she worked officially for the National Party.  Furthermore this apartheid policy we grew up with that in press and to the things I've heard over the radio, apart from the English press there was little criticism on the apartheid policy.  The judge prayed for the security forces, political statements praised the security forces for what thy had done and what they are doing to combat this evil.  I was also influenced by prominent people I had contact with on a daily basis.  Those were for example earlier my teachers at school and if I think back and look around me, today I remember that I think that the policy of the previous government could possibly be justifiable and was correct.  Later in my late life...(intervention)