Special Report Transcript Episode 71, Section 5, Time 43:07

I joined the army at a time when there was quite a strong current of opinion among the white left which said that you should never join the SADF. The options at that stage appeared to be though either you left the country permanently or you went to jail. Now, at that time I didn’t regard either of those as acceptable options, so that what I decided to do was that I would have to in fact go and join the army. But as soon as I went there I started trying to find some way of achieving some kind of moral balance and say ‘I am in this oppressive force, how was I going to live with myself with it?’ So that even during basics I was starting to collect information which I thought I might be able to pass on to someone at a later stage.

Notes: Roland Hunter

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