MR MAPOMA
Yes, Chairperson, the objective of the applicants was to have them killed.   They killed them by shooting them with an AK47, amongst others.    But they did not end there, sir, they went to the extent of hacking them with pangas and other sharp instruments, after they were shot at.   The act of hacking them, Chairperson, I submit was disproportionate to the intended purpose, because they took the matter too far, and the gravity of that has got a bearing for the committee in deciding whether this act was politically motivated.   If, Chairperson, the intention was to kill them, one finds it difficult to explain why hack them, because they were shot at with a firearm (indistinct) AK47, they should have shot and left there, without having to hack them now.