MR VAN DEN BERG
Certainly.  My instructions are that this is the same Robert Mabaso.  That what occurred at the time was an attempt probably to assault Mr Mabaso but that that was curtailed by the production of a firearm during which a fellow shop steward and Mr Kondile were shot.  But it seems as if the police were on the scene very, very quickly.
	And I'm not sure, I certainly don't understand my instructions to the effect that any offence was in fact committed at the time.  Although of course the definition of assault is so wide that presumably the simple manhandling of Mabaso would qualify.  But my instructions are not to apply for anything in that regard.