CHAIRPERSON: For the purposes of the record, my name is Judge Pillay. I'm going to ask my colleagues and the various representatives to identify themselves on record please?
JUDGE MOTATA: My name is Judge Motata.
ADV SIGODI: It's Advocate Sigodi from the Amnesty Committee.
MR KOOPEDI: My name is Brian Koopedi, I appear for the applicant in this matter who is Mr ...(inaudible)
MS MTANGA: I am Lulama Mtanga, I am the Evidence Leader.
CHAIRPERSON: Which application are we going to start with?
MS MTANGA: Chairperson, the first matter that we are going to deal is the application of Ngobeni Moglaba Balati.
Chairperson, we have encountered problems regarding notification of victims. There's a group of victims who were policemen at the time of these incidents and they were actually in the army at that time and according to the information we received from the army headquarters is that they were on conscription in that year and they were actually civilians. It's been impossible for us to locate them from the addresses given by the headquarters and an advert was supposed to be placed by our media office on the local papers in Pretoria and Bloemfontein and according to the information that I have received from the analyst, ...(indistinct), this was not done by the media secretary. So therefore, these victims were not notified.
CHAIRPERSON: I hope you will convey our displeasure at the negligence on the part of the office to see to it that the hearing is properly prepared and that where certain procedures had to be complied with, they were not done. I don't think we've got any option but to allow the matter to be postponed. What other matters have we got?
MS MTANGA: The next matter that's set down for today, Chairperson, is the matter of Frans Klokwe Maserumule, amnesty number 6217/97 and the applicant is ready to commence.
