CHAIRPERSON
I want you to let me take you back to the time to that pattern, to those patterns, those institutions, the laws that created the climate in which we lived, and against which we were reacting.  This is the time after Rivonia, after the imprisonment, the banning, the house arrest of the 60s.   The presence of the apartheid state was pervasive.   It did everything it could to ensure its own survival within the framework of its self-defining laws, self-protecting laws.  Those who stepped out of line were dealt with swiftly and unequivocally.   Leaders were quickly and effectively removed from their areas of influence.