Last week's SRC approved the strategy for stopping the tour which had been adopted by the Anti-Apartheid Club, Citizens Opposing the Springbok Tour (COST) and HART. This strategy involves the use of non-violent civil disobedience to force the cancellation of the tour.

This strategy will involve militant mass demonstrations and associated activities to stretch the resources of the police to breaking point. The police will find themselves unable to cope with the nationwide activities. Each demonstration we stage from now on will be of such a nature.

The police are clearly worried by this and have been issuing many statements that violence will inevitably follow. People can see through this as just an attempt to scare people away from the demonstrations. However it is the police's job to protect the tour and ensure it proceeds. It is now our task to ensure the tour does not proceed.