UNKNOWN
Madam Chair, in my respectful submission, the evidence of the applicant which has been placed before this committee has not deviated in any material respect from the documentation which is already in possession of the committee.  So I don't intend to go into great
detail, except again to draw the committee's attention and to emphasise the importance of that area of his evidence relating to the background of the applicant, the training of the applicant, the high degree of responsibility and respectability acquired by the applicant within the organisation of the African National Congress prior to his coming back to South Africa and subsequent to his arrest in 1991 in South Africa.
	The problems, despite the fact that the applicant attempted to carry on a normal life after he'd been released from prison on the grounds of the indemnity provisions, the problems which materialised and escalated, arose from the applicant refusing to be recruited by the security police into their ranks and to betray his comrades in the African National Congress.
	The applicant has testified at some length and some detail as to the role which he played in South Africa throughout in the recruitment and training of various cadres and guerillas and the supplying of arms.   This the security police were well aware of and the applicant would have been a very valuable catch.    His refusal to join their ranks obviously rankled with the security establishment and then accounts of the almost daily, certainly weekly, harassments which took place, ranging from searching at the house, entering upon the premises, invading his privacy and his family's privacy, harassment by Askaris trying to purchase arms, the abduction of his brother and the mysterious disappearance of his brother, and all this harassment, with due respect, was reported to the ANC structures.    At one stage he contemplated, after speaking to the late Chris Hani, he was thinking at that stage to get out of the area and to join the army of General Holomisa, who then had recruited a number of his former MK soldiers.   So he had almost reached the end of his tether of this harassment, and any details relating to this political harassment has gone unchallenged.   He has mentioned certain policemen in his statement.  These policemen were neither represented nor attended this hearing.