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the World Trade Centre. A few days later, the General pulled out of the conspiracy of the rightwing and joined the negotiation parties. His colleagues heavily vilified him for saving South Africa from such a calamity. Hartzenberg did not have any military capacity at all, and Terre'Blanche relied on a collection of undisciplined amateurs who had no idea whatsoever of what a war involved. On the eve of the elections, bombs exploded especially in Johannesburg and killed about twenty innocent civilians. It was a matter for police action and the culprits were arrested and convicted. The situation would have imposed formidable difficulties if Viljoen was still part of the plot. I never enquired whether the former president did act on my request, but in the 1994 general elections, the General was rewarded for his wisdom and his foresight when he polled thirty seven percent of the votes, whereas a former section of the liberation movement polled less than two percent.