SATHYANDRANATH RAGUNANAN MAC MAHARAJ
I have only so far given the sample of reports that had reached us while working in Vula inside the country, but there are other bases on which the question rises about Charles.  He was then suggested by Headquarters that he should come in as a reinforcement to our personnel.  He was crossed into South Africa in the first week of February.  He was put in a unit under Mbuso Shabalala, not above.  Mbuso Shabalala was heading that section.  The weekend of their disappearance they had gone out to work in KwaMashu which was one of their assigned areas of work.  We already became aware by Monday, I think it's the 9th, that these two men had disappeared.  I was in Johannesburg at the time and I received a secret communication from Kibusa, Siphiwe Nyanda, to say that these two cadres had not returned.  We immediately agreed in communication that a search should be made to ascertain what had happened to these two.  Secondly, that measures should be taken to abandon all safe-houses that these two cadres knew of and that was not because we suspected them to be agents, that was because it was a necessary step for our own security.  Now, we then ascertained that Charles Ndaba had not kept certain appointments on Friday the 6th.  he had also not kept appointments on Saturday.  As regards Mbuso Shabalala, there was an appointment that he was supposed to have with Charles Ndaba on the Sunday and Mbuso Shabalala's family said that he was with them on Sunday.  We then arranged through the family for lawyers to begin making inquiries with C R Swart on the Monday and Tuesday.  So, my sequence of the arrests is different from the one here.  I also have a different sequence of the arrests on the 12th.