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DR RANDERA: David welcome. David before I pass you over to my colleague, Tom Manthata, could you please stand and take the oath.

Only a court of law can find Doctor Basson guilty of an offence. Only a court of law can pass sentence of a fine or of a period of imprisonment that is effective. This Commission as far as I am concerned is not vested with those powers and is incompetent to make such a finding.

There was an intervention by Mr Semenya, where he complained about the process, I’ll by-pass that and go on to page 19 where I go on.

MR HATTINGH: Could you just give us some indication as to what standard at school did you pass?

... you, because they were the only visible sympathetic, I thought, people I could communicate with. But imagine if I had no programme with which to pass the time. I think I would have been a mental wreck. ...

Whilst I was very intelligent, I used to take position one and I didn't pass. I receive symbol F, it was so painful.

... said that he hadn’t succeeded in selling anything to anybody in Houghton in order to justify the -. Now why he should be in Houghton and by chance pass Mr Mandela’s house which one can almost take cognisance of is on a, in a quiet suburb, a T intersection, off the corner at the time and why he ...

MR MARIBANA: If one may just - Mr Ras, even from your structure, you've indicated that structure A was a family house, what made you actually to pass this structure Y where you know that ANC are living in it, and go to structure X?

... properly or in time with all the soldiers as it first had to go through the commanders in the whole of South Africa and then the commanders to pass that information on to APLA soldiers who are all over South Africa and not in Transkei ...

... main entrance. And our vehicle was parked next to the entrance door. So when they stopped there they had to come and jump over the main road and pass our vehicle in front. So as they came we saw them and we quickly intercepted them before they could enter the entrance of the ...

... I became a member of the United Democratic Front because I was aware of their aims and what they were fighting for. I then went home to try to pass on the message on to the people so that we in our own community could start UDF as well. I started this organisation back ...

CHAIRPERSON: Mr Mohlaba, we don't need argument from you. However, we aren't able to give you a final decision today. We have to give a written decision, pass it on to the State President for him to make a final decision on it. It will of course, go with our recommendations.

... and to tell me whether you confirm this, you say that as a member of the Security Police, you were an undercover agent and you were instructed to pass on information to your handlers in this instance, with regard to the activities of MK soldiers, is that ...

Now this happened also from the start of MK. We attacked Pass offices, but we tried to attack them when the people were not there. We even have in Durban, in the trial of the first comrades in 1963, I think it is Ebrahim Ismail, Ronnie was part of that group of terrorists - (laughter) - where in ...

still holding on. So I noticed that I was driving I had to flicker the lights so that this coming car could notice that I was in a hurry and it can pass by quickly. This car slowed down so I had to go straight to it. Those were not intentions to hit that car. So that was how I got arrested, I ...

MR MHLAMBO: What I would like to emphasise is I wish to pass my regrets to the family of the deceased. I would, I am asking for their forgiveness, that is what I would like to say.

MR MHLONGO: That is not correct. As the unit commander, I was supposed to make sure whether it was true, and I had to give the general commander a report back, and he was supposed to move and pass it on to the underground structure, and the underground structure was supposed to then verify.

... there were women from the community sad and bowed down but Mr Metele was not there. I looked around and I sensed in the atmosphere that my son had passed away. When my son told me that Metele was around I thought that he had brought my son back. I went inside and asked, is my child dead? ...

CHAIRPERSON: We hope that we will be able to pass forward your requests and see what help you can get with regard to your requests and we shall get back to you in due course. Thank you very much.

ADV GCABASHE: Yes, and that was your understanding? Your participation was because you wanted information to pass back to Mr le Roux?