Court Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… for a number of acts which clearly fell outside the policy of the organisation, and which have been charged in … by Umkhonto, I want to refer briefly to the roots and policy of the organization. I have already mentioned that I … Firstly, we believed that as a result of Government policy, violence by the African people had become inevitable, …