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Do you have any specific wish that you would like to be granted? We do not have the powers to grant people's wishes or promise anything, but we do pass recommendations to the Government. Now, is there anything that you have in mind? As a member of the community that was torn apart what do you ...

to which people are dispersed and detached from their support networks, means that often there's no one to tell the story, and there's no one to pass on the news. Any person - any NGO, any social worker, or any person living in a rural area has horror stories to tell of how people are ...

... them. Clearly he didn’t act within the scope of his authority if he would authorise somebody to be killed, so he wouldn’t get amnesty, or he could pass the buck and say I got it from PW Botha and there the buck would stop because PW Botha wouldn’t be able to get amnesty. I think I’ve found the ...

of our job being in the Security Branch, we would intercept information at a certain time on a certain date, there would be a crossing through Mac's Pass or Makanya's Drift or something like, we would then go and lay ambush positions and we would wait for the people and they would be arrested. I ...

... the problem and report later. I don't know whether to call it a culture or what but there was this tendency that you would do something and let it pass, but in this particular instance I informed them about the whole situation and told them that I went to the police and got permission from the ...

MR ALBERTS: Were you waiting for him at that time? Did you know that he was going to pass by there?

MR HLENGWA: It is a road she was just passing, she was going to my place, but she didn’t pass. I found her in Court and she explained in Court as to what was happening on that day. That’s when it came apparent to me she was going to my place and when seeing this she stopped and watched.

MR METHULA: Since I started patrolling the firearms or the arms that we used to get, assegais, tomahawks, axes, we would confiscate them and give them to the commander and he would pass them over to higher authority.

Some of them may have even been in prison for having contravened the Pass Law or a Group Areas Act and just for being in prison for a brief 48 hour period, ended up in graves that are unmarked.

... information, the system, which is carefully monitored and managed so that we can check at different points what happened to this statement. Did it pass stage one, did it go to stage two, did it go to stage three, has this person been found to be a victim. It was done in such a tight manner that ...

MR MHLABA: Some of them whom I saw, there were those who were on top of the building which we were to pass, it building in stones. They were standing on top of the building and they were shooting at us. That was the last time I saw the people who shot at us.

CHAIRPERSON: That's not an answer to the question. The question is: On your way to get a taxi in order to go to Bisho, did you pass the Peddie Police Station?

MR LEWIN: Could I ask, just to go back, before I pass onto other people who might have other questions. How old was your son when he left in 1976?