MARY BURTON
It is now for me to thank all the many people who helped to make this hearing possible.  It has been a privilege for us to be in Hanover today.  We thank the Mayor of Hanover Mr Booysen and the Town Clerk Mr Nothnagel for all the help that they have given us in arranging places for us to meet and in making contact for us with the local people.
 We thank also Mr Mweba the Town Clerk of Noupoort and the other representatives from Noupoort who are here.  
 We thank Mr Mweba senior for helping us  with  statement taking and Bonwabise.
 We thank all the people from Noupoort who have come to hear the Noupoort testimonies today.
 We thank also the helpers we've had from Phillipstown, Gemane Batwali and Mr Benson.  Janet Booba and Bull Matiso.
 We thank also all the hard workers who have helped us to prepare these hearings.  We thank Solly Terblanche and his team for providing the sound and the amplification.
 We thank the interpreters for making it possible for you to hear these testimonies in the language of your choice, we think they do a wonderful job and we are very grateful to have them.
 We thank the media who are here to record and write about what they have seen and heard today.
 We thank the statement takers who were here in the area before and are here now and have built up the body of evidence from this region.
 We thank the briefers, our own full time briefer Paul Haupt and the team of people from the local communities who have supported our witnesses today and have been with them beforehand and will remain in contact with them afterwards.
 We thank the local people who have helped us with provision of food also, and the entire team of our own staff under the leadership of our logistics officer Gail van Breda with perhaps particular thanks to the drivers who have had to cover long distances to bring people to the different places where we've met.
 We thank the members of the South African Police services who have protected us here in this building today and in all our travelling about the area.  It isn't always easy for them to hear allegations about past events, but we know that we are in a new different society now and we need to built trust and confidence in a new viable trusted police service.
 And finally we thank all of you, representatives of the communities of Phillipstown, Noupoort and Hanover for your presence, for your support and interest and we rely on you to carry forward the process that still has to happen.
 As we have said several times during the day, miracles don't happen overnight, there is a good deal of work that still needs to be done to bring about reconciliation, and part of that has to be in development in the area so that people will find jobs and be able to have benefit in the new and better life in a free society.  We wish that for you as we wish it for all the communities that we work with, thank you very much and travel safely home if you have distances to travel.  Thank you.