Mere nightmare

Any more offers? Going at 30. Going, going . . . gone to that dapper Minister with consideration for others.

Members were similarly agreed on how long the police beat people. Sir De Villiers suggested that police violence continued 20 minutes after the first baton charge.

"Did you have a stopwatch?" asked Mr. Hennie Smit. of Stellenbosch.

Later Mr. Muller said that the charge lasted five minutes.

Mr. Vause Raw: "Did the hitting last for only a few minutes?"

Mr. Muller: "Yes. My information is that the charge lasted only five or six minutes."

"Your clock stopped," said Mr. Jack Wainwright.

Either that, or people who thought they were beaten up 20 minutes later were gravely mistaken. We all make mistakes. You think you're being chased up the road by a baton-waving man and then wake up in the gutter fooled by a mere nightmare.