MS MAMELA
It is with most remorse that young people were mowed down by some people who were eager to have satisfaction of some subversive ways.  The country was at war, that is acceptable, but the evidence that was actually tabled here in the presence of the people, was not satisfactory.
	The people who actually are applying for amnesty, have not told the truth, they've been very evasive because they don't want to give in-depth information to the bereaved families.  They actually showed very little remorse besides the lies they told, very insensitive and quite a lot of arrogance was labelled at us.  Even when the representative of the families was trying to draw attention to them, they were just not bothered.  That alone proves to me that there was no way they wanted the four people to be taken to court and tried, but were eager to kill.  The lives of those people meant nothing to them.
	Another thing, it's a pity because one of the people I could have loved to query certain things, Andy Taylor, died.  It's a pity he died before he could testify here.  I was one of his top customers, he abused me.  But the worst thing was the brutality he meted out to my kids and my members of the family when my son had been killed.
	I'm sorry to say this, I was also disappointed with the way the defence team carried on.  We've lost lives here, I've lost my dear son and just because people don't want to come up with the truth, and we know very well that a helicopter was on the scene on that day.  Even these guys who have come here and testified, asking us to forgive them, the whole thing became a sham because they're not prepared to talk the truth.
	And as for Botha, he forgets one thing, death is imminent to anybody, he can't guarantee how he is going to die, he might have just killed another black person and to him that is nothing.  And as a black woman who's been involved in the whole brutality that was carried on during the years of the apartheid, I really feel bitter.
	I'm left with a child who wants to know the truth, who'll never know the truth because the life of a black person has no worth in the hands of the people who killed my son.