SIPHO JEREMIAH MABASO
I do not see any reason why they should be forgiven.  My soul will never rest if they could be forgiven because I grew up as a peaceful person and throughout I've been a peaceful person so, I do not know what I did to deserve this type of treatment from them.  I was taught never ever to use a knife - a knife was used to carve meat.  I was taught never ever to use a panga, an instrument or any weapon whatsoever.  Now, when I was taught not to use any weapons, how could I get injured from a weapon?
	I do not understand why these three men had to shoot me.  I think they had planned this - it was a well orchestrated thing because it's quite a distance form the place where they got, that is Richard's Bay up to here.  It shows intention.  Now, if I can compare the manner in which they talked in court when they were asked as to why they had shot us, they told the Judge that they were actually shooting at wild animals and they were actually killing wild animals.  And they said they were shooting baboons.  Now the families of those baboons are suffering.  
	Now, I think they deserve to stay in prison, they deserve to be incarcerated so that their families should suffer as much as our families have suffered because when they get out - it is difficult for them in prison, now they want to be reunited with their families.  What about us, what about those died and left their families?  What about the families of the deceased?  What about the children of the deceased?  What about my children, what if I had died, what would have happened to my children?  Who could they have asked forgiveness from had I died?
	I do not see any need whatsoever.  If a person sows mielies, he cannot reap beans.  Now, whatever they are getting, they deserve it.  It is a mistake because the Government did give them a reprieve.  That was a grave mistake, they deserve to have died.  I want them in the very situation that they are in.  What I wish - I do not know whether this wish could be granted - I wish that this Commission as well as my attorney, they could try and find means so that my children could be like other people's children  who are not culprits, who are not robbers.   Because, as old as I am, I've never been a prisoner, I've never been a criminal.