ADV TEE
Sorry.  The significant part here is that paragraph three reads as follows,
"whether or not he possessed leadership skills and whether or not he could be regarded as a leader.  He possesses no leadership qualities.  He can easily be influenced by leaders and is very submissive".
Now, what that means is this.  The man is a good soldier, but some people are born to be soldiers and some to be leaders.  Skosana is a good soldier, but he is not a leader, but what they are also admitting is that put him under a position of authority, for example, under the thumb of the police after arrest.  He has got no power to withstand their influence and I would submit that this is a pretty accurate document stating that the man is dedicated, but he can be influenced.  The word they used is "beinvloed" and the tragedy for Skosana is that he can be influenced both ways.  That is why he had to take the order, that is why he must get amnesty, but it is also why he came to give evidence which conflicted three times.  In his own mitigation slightly different to what he said in the Nkuna trial and quite considerably different from what he said here.  Does that mean that the man has not made a full disclosure.  Well, I am not going to argue his case on that, but suffice it to say that a full disclosure operates in terms of the Act under the rubric of a full disclosure of all the relevant facts and in my submission Skosana clearly falls well within that definition and I will be dealing with that aspect with regard to the Nkunas presently.
	The question of no opposition is also significant here for the Commission.  We know that the attorney of Skosana did not cross-examine the Nkunas.  We are also aware that this is not a Court of Law, but the Commission will take it into account that the attorney who was present throughout or his employee had access to the statements made by the Nkuna brothers from the first Monday, a good three days before I personally became involved in this matter.  Despite that there was no cross-examination.  In other words ...