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So I did, and in 1972 or late in '71 I resigned from the South African police and then went under the wing of the security police and in '72 I became a student at the university of Witwatersrand. I then rejoined the police secretly - the security police - and my number then wasI was then still a sergeant and I became involved in student politics. My job was to monitor left-wing student activities on the campus, but also to learn myself something about politics and what was happening. In that year there was some confrontation between the police and students in South Africa and I got arrested in a small riot that happened and I spent some time, three or four days in jail, but then after that there was a court case and we were finally acquitted, but I got to know my fellow people who had been charged: quite a large number of students had been arrested. Then I became involved in the arts faculty council and the NUSAS: National Union of South African Students, the local committees, and by 1973 I was already on the local committees of the arts faculty council and... I think let's just all open them all at once at once then with one noise. So, as I was saying, in 1973 I became involved on committee level with NUSAS and the arts faculty council and I went to the NUSAS national congress, which is... Can I use NUSAS now? National Union of South African Students. And I started becoming quite involved. By the end of 1973

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