MAPULE RAMASHALA
Thank you Mr Chairperson - good morning Mr Pienaar.  Before you begin, I'd like to just make a few statements, Oudtshoorn experienced a traumatic political upheaval during 1985 that continued into 1986.  Resistance became even more resolved by newly emerged organisations such as the Bhongolethu Young Organisation and the Bhongolethu Civic Association.  In particular resistance was sparked off by Security Forces -  Security Force actions taken against residents who participated in commemoration service on June 16th 1985 after which three children were killed.  
 During 1987 sixteen kitskonstabels were sent to Bhongolethu to police the area after their six weeks of training.  The kitskonstabels proved to be a law unto themselves - between September 1987 and January 1988 less than six months, at least six activist were injured by kitskonstabels a  remarkable series of incidents, involving the kitskonstabels was recorded by the police themselves in the Bhongolethu police station incident book.
 Mr Chairperson Mr Pienaar will give us a context - that will give us a  good appreciation of the subsequent  cases we will hear this morning.  And to that I  welcome Mr Pienaar and ask that he describe for us not only the establishment, the history and the activities of the kitskonstabels but  to give us a context against - which in a bad round against, which we will get a good understanding of the cases that come in before us, thank you.