WILLEM JOHANNES VAN DER MERWE
It was very high priority for us.  There were many terrorist attacks, there were ANC and PAC cadres which committed acts of sabotage.  Others had missions to be politically active, to influence the masses, to encourage them to resist the government and for that reason it was our task to determine the particulars of people leaving the country with the intention to obtain further training abroad or elsewhere and then to return to the country as trained cadres to continue with the struggle, and then obviously the already trained people.  We had to try to combat the infiltration of these trained people across the border and to try to arrest them and as far as possible to try to keep the area as free of infiltration as possible.