DINA ANVARI
Okay.  Well, the basic principles of the Bahai faith, is based on three oneness, a oneness of God, oneness of religion and a oneness of humanity.
	The Bahai Faith since 1911, has been part of, has been established in South Africa and it has been basically teaching its teachings to the people since 1911, but up to the election I suppose, we were obscure in a way because our teachings based on oneness of humanity did not necessarily coincide with the system of the government of the time, and being Bahai's we do obey the government of every country that we live in.
	We abide by their laws, not necessarily moralities, but by their laws, and therefore we kept basically all our religious activities in such a way that it does not interfere what the government asks us.
	However, in Ciskei and Transkei we never had any problems in that terms, and most of the Bahai, I mean all the Bahai meetings in those countries, were very much mixed.  Although even in South Africa we had, Bahai meetings were integrated fully.  We had less problems, let's say, in Ciskei and Transkei.
	The Bahai Faith is not a mission, it is a faith.  It is a religion based on you know, oneness of God, it is a religion along the same major religions of the world, like Christianity and Islam.  Its inception was in 1844 and it is only 150 some years old, however, according to the Britannica World Book, after Christianity it is the most widespread religion throughout the world.
	The Bahai administration is in such a way that it starts from a local spiritual assembly in each city, we have a local spiritual assembly which is made of nine people, whoever is voted for, the invitation to go to Mdantsane was from the local spiritual assembly of Bahai's of Mdantsane.
	At every country we have a national spiritual assembly of the Bahai's of that country, which we have a national spiritual assembly here in South Africa.  As a world governing body, we have a universal house of justice which rules basically all the Bahai world, internationally.
	Therefore our basic objective to be in anywhere around the world, to spread the teachings of Bahala, which is based on unity of mankind, world peace, unity of - bringing people together, abolition of all kinds of prejudices, including the racial prejudice, gender, class, creed, any kind of prejudices, so Africa, South Africa seemed to be a very, very good place to be at the time, and is still going to be, because we believe in working on individuals, bringing dignity, faith, confidence, spiritual upliftment to the people underground, these are the people that are important.
	Those are the people we work with.  Political systems have their own systems, and they bring empowerment to people in their own way and fine, that is perfectly okay.  We believe in individuals and empowerment through spiritual growth, that comes from within.
	And that is what basically we were here and we are here, to do.