MR BOTHA
Mr Chairman, when one uses a word, one tries to convey to the other person what was going on in your mind at that particular time. I would say that what I was trying to illustrate at the time was that when an attack came against oneself or against one's people and one hit back, this was an action that is initiated to try to bring the person who had launched the original attack to new understanding so that he knew not to launch such an attack in future.
He would have to be convinced that if he should launch such an attack, there would be a very severe counter-attack. I can't think of the Afrikaans word, retaliation is the word - it's hitting back.