hrvtrans CLOSING STATEMENT 1996-10-07 KAROO 1 https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/hearing.php?id=55339&t=&tab=hearings https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/originals/hrvtrans/karoo/ct00392.htm MS BURTON Ladies and gentlemen, that brings to an end the testimonies that we will be hearing here in De Aar. We thank the florists who provided the flowers. We thank the caterer for this hall, George, for all his help. We thank the people who supplied the sound system, because they also have to traipse from place to place with us and do all of that work. We thank the media for their constant support throughout all these months and for coming now to record and write about the testimonies that we have heard today. And generally we thank the who community of De Aar for your support. We also have drawn on the community for our briefers. You have seen that each of the witnesses have been accompanied on stage by somebody who stands with the, sits with them throughout and who supports them before and after, and this is a very important part of the process and we are very grateful to you for taking on that role. Thank you. We have heard today of a community who have suffered great hurt, a great deal of pain and division and conflict. And we are very - very grateful for the testimony and for the hard work that was put in not only by Di Oliver who is here with us today, but also for the work that her late husband, Brian Bishop and her late colleague, Molly Blackburn, and others like them, the work that they did to record at that time, the events of the time, because those things too, go to be part of our common history.