MR DRAHT
That's correct Chairperson indeed.  Statements were not completed by the applicants themselves, but by their legal representative.  Statements were also not always read back carefully.  The writer of the statements couldn't speak Zulu and the words used is almost the same in each statement.  It's clear that the statements were taken in haste and that there was no due consideration to the persons, by the persons taking the statements, to the specific wording used.  These persons can hardly write their own names, and it's my submission that it would be extremely unfair to judge the acceptability of their application on the basis of the specific use of words being used or not used.