On 10 December 1981, in Swaziland (now Eswatini), Swazi Police Commissioner Titus Msibi, his Deputy E. Hilary, Secretary A. Dlamini, Lieutenant Colonel Dube, Lieutenant Colonel J. Ndzimandze and Captain S. Dlamini met their apartheid South African counterparts, which consisted of Major General Earp of Army Special Operations, Brigadier du Preez from the Security Branch, and Colonels de Bruyn and Saaiman from the Directorate Military Intelligence.
Commissioner Msibi welcomed all present and informed them that the meeting was based on South Africa’s request to discuss the common enemy that the two countries shared. He also mentioned to the meeting that the Swazi Minister of Foreign Affairs had been in Cape Town, where he was given briefings about the African National Congress (ANC).
According to Msibi, politicians in Swaziland were holding the belief that voters in the kingdom were going to put pressure on the security forces if they did not act, and as a consequence, the Swazi Security Council had convinced the government that ANC members in the kingdom had to be detained in a refugee camp under armed guard.
Furthermore, Msibi stated that Swaziland was willing to make an agreement with apartheid South Africa to cope with the ANC, and a special task force was already in place to be utilised for that objective. He then suggested to their racist South African counterparts to raise a task force that could be used for joint actions. Msibi further declared that Swaziland
