Special Report Transcript Episode 48, Section 2, Time 02:05

‘Soft Targets and Civilians’ // Wasn’t this blurring of a distinction between hard and soft targets in direct contravention of those subsections of the Geneva convention? // What we did was to recommit ourselves to intensifying the struggle, to saying that some of the restraints that we had placed on ourselves as to how we conduct the struggle would need to be relaxed and in particular I would say then that where a military installation was in a commercial or civilian area, that restraint that we’d placed on ourselves had to be relaxed. The tactics of the apartheid regime were drawing us into a morass where the rules of the games were reducing, or were likely to reduce an honourable struggle and besmear it and we tried to avoid it. // In fact in waging the armed struggle we broke very few eggs to make a huge omelette.

Notes: Aftermath of bomb blast; Hanif Vally (Truth Commission lawyer); Mac Maharaj; Mathews Phosa