MS NHLAYISI
Thank you Mr Chairman.  Mr Chairman, the applicant's applied for amnesty for attempted murder on one Mr Kerso, but I would wish to start by saying there were two incidents of shooting on this particular day.  The first one occured when the applicant and his friend met with the vigilantes and they were threatened with spears and then he ran away and then he shot and your - Mr Chairman, on that incident, the applicant has not brought any application for the reason that it was a clear act of self defence on that score.
	Then after he has shot when he was threatened with spears by the vigilantes, these people who were threatening them then scattered and started to run into different directions.  That's when the applicant and his friend decided to pursue some of the group that's run into the school and Mr Chairperson, it is my submission that at that stage it was no longer an act of self defence because these people were now running away from him because they've realised that he had a firearm.  He pursued them, according to his evidence, with an intention to capture them because he regarded them as enemy because in his mind he believed that they belonged to the IFP and that's when the second shooting occurred inside the school premises when he met with two people whom he believed were part of the group that he was chasing but he later discovered that ...(intervention)