MR HOBBS
If I may proceed, the very content of these certificates are opinion evidence, and in my submission, any tribunal making a decision on the competence of Chief Matanzima as a witness, will rely on the expert opinion of these medical experts.
	In my submission, prior to this Commission deciding to hear the evidence, if at all, it must firstly decide if he is a competent witness.  In my submission, the Commission should then first hear the evidence on that point, the expert medical evidence, because unless ...