CHAIRPERSON
Mr Basopu, thank you for coming before the Commission.  You have done a very courageous thing to come and trust to us with a, an experience that is very personal to you.  An experience that talks of the centre of your being as a man and you have come and opened up to us so that we can begin to get a glimpse of the atrocities that have been committed to people.  I must say that it is a very courageous act and I thank you for that kind of courage.  I remember you, as I said during the break, as a trade union who was very active in our region and as a person who, I do not know whether you are a believer, but you should be thanking God, because it is a miracle that people like you survived and are here today.  We pay tribute to you, now that we have a chance to do so, for the leadership that you showed during that period and that leadership that stood the test of time, because those were very, very difficult moments.
 We have heard your requests to us to try and investigate this.  We will try our level best.  If we succeed it will be good, but if we fail you will know that it, because it is such a complex thing and, indeed, it could be that your life has been ruined completely in the course of the struggle.  We salute you.