JEFFERY T BENZIEN
The acts which I committed were indeed acts committed with a political objective because as a member of the Security Forces of the State, I within the cause and scope of my duties and within the cause and scope of my express or tacit authority, acted in a bona fide manner with the objective of combatting the ANC, especially the ANC's onslaught against the country and the government and its attempts to make the country ungovernable.
	Alternatively, on reasonable grounds I believed that I was acting in the cause and scope of my duties and within the cause and scope of my express or implied authority.  The acts which I committed I answer, based on the following criteria as contained in Section 23 (a) - (f) of Act 34 of 1995.
	The motive why I committed these acts was to, in respect of terrorists who were trained abroad and attached to the ANC or MK, to trace these people to arrest them, to collect information, weaponry and also to arrest hangers on.
	This prevented further acts of terror int he country and in the Peninsula.  The context for these acts was in reaction to political insurrection or disturbance of the ANC.  The ANC tried to overthrow the government by military means.
	These terrorists trained abroad and were active in the Peninsula, were instrumental to the objectives of the ANC who tried to make the Peninsula ungovernable by means of acts of terror.
	The legal and factual nature, as well as the gravity of the offences were per se unlawful and serious.  Nobody was however seriously injured or sustained lasting physical or mental harm or damage as far as I know.  Ashley Kriel, unfortunately was killed.
	The objective of these acts, it was aimed against the political opponent, namely the ANC.  The acts were committed on the orders of my immediate Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Liebenberg.
	The Security Forces served the government of the day and the National Party of which I was a member.  I also acted on behalf of or with the express or tacit approval of the Security Forces and or the National Party.
	The mere fact that the Terrorist Tracing Unit continued to exist for five years until the unbanning of the ANC, in 1990, and I received a medal and a certificate for my service, I believed on reasonable and bona fide grounds that I was acting within the cause and scope of my duties and within the scope of my express or implied authority.
	The relationship between the acts and the political objectives pursued  are defined and described more particularly in (9(a) and 10(a) and (b) above.