HENDRIK JOHANNES PETRUS BOTHA
Chairperson, directly after my security course training in Pretoria I went back to South West Africa and I worked there at the security branch.  As the bush war escalated and because I was involved in the security branch in Windhoek I was tasked with the gathering of information South of the Red Line as it was called and we weren't really exposed to terrorism in the terms of the bush war in Ovamboland itself.  After the civil war in Angola and with the escalation of the bush war there was also internal terror which was on the increase in South West Africa and in 1975/76 we found the first acts of terrors in the urban areas in Windhoek and in Swakopmund and then it made us quite aware of the urban terror.  Because we lived in South West Africa and we were aware of the war in Angola it became an everyday way of life and it was not something that you only took notice of, something that happened far away from you and consequently your whole life was directed towards this.
	With my transfer to the division in Durban in 1983 I also experienced here that Natal at that stage was already a target of the liberation movements.