MR VAN DEN BERG
Mr Chairperson, my submission would be that whilst an act of murder was planned and whilst they set off to execute it, Mabaso was not found, a warning was left by the firing of shots in the proximity of his home.  I would submit, Mr Chairperson, that at worst to the, or at best to the applicant we are dealing with conspiracy.  I don't believe that insofar as they took the ...(indistinct) that it fulfils the definitional requirements of murder or an attempt.  They certainly conspired to murder him.  I don't know that they took it any further than that.