MR KOOPEDI
He did not describe what a professional soldier is, but I will venture to say what I believe a professional soldier is.  A professional soldier is someone who not only is a soldier, you'd find that a person would be a soldier on a part-time basis, you know, where there are people who are called on conscription and they would come back, they are people who perhaps like I said, work part times, but he was full-time a soldier, he was full-time a senior person, so senior and professional was he, that he could be deployed on the ground.  He was the most senior person.  There was this fear that the march is going to storm Bisho, the military government is going to be taken over, Umkhonto weSizwe is going to be deployed there and possibly shoot at people.  It's my submission that under those circumstances, you would only put the best you have, not a person who would look at a crowd, chicken out and believe that I'm being shot at and that's the crux of my submission.  This subjective test that is applied, must be that one of that senior person, that professional soldier, the way he has called himself.