DESMOND MPILO TUTU
We are looking to have what me might call event hearings where we concentrate not so much on individual testimony but on testimony that relates to an event that would give a kind of window, an example of specific kind of human rights violations.  So we might for instance look at the Bisho Massacre or Boipatong or whatever, to look at the characteristics of that kind and we have said for instance too, we're hoping that we will have political parties come to make presentations so that we may begin to have some insight into their own particular perspectives on the period under review, what their policies were and so be able to locate individual violations or acts or omissions within the context that each of the different political parties will be making submissions, will have indicated to us.
 We also want, having underscored the fact that these first hearings were meant to be victim-orientated hearings where people, many as they have testified, been given the opportunity for the very first time to tell their stories. Apart from what was announced was that we may be going to subpoena alleged perpetrators.  We also would want to specifically have hearings where those who have been named will be given the opportunity of giving their side, as it were, of the story.  We want for that to happen as quickly as is feasible.
 May I introduce the panel that is accompanying. On my extreme left, your right, Tom Manthata, member of the Reparations and Rehabilitation Committee, Gauteng Region, Professor Piet Meiring, ditto, Hugh Lewin, member of the Human Rights Violations Committee Gauteng Region, Wynand Malan, Commissioner, deputy chair of the Human Rights Violations Committee, Faizel Randera, Commissioner, member of the Human Rights Violations Committee and also coordinator of our Gauteng office, Dr Alex Boraine, deputy chair of the Commission and member of the Human Rights Violations Committee, Yasmin Sooka, Commissioner, deputy chair of the Human Rights Violations Committee, Joyce Seroke, member of the Human Rights Violations Committee, Gauteng Region and Russel Ally, member of the Human Rights Violations Committee.