MS SEROKE
Thank you for coming here today to tell us what happened in 1982.  I am sure that you feel that at least there is less magnitude and gravity now that you have spoken.  What we realise is that you were a victim because Emphraim took advantage of the fact that he knew your brother and you trusted him.  Because you must have thought that somebody who knows my brother is like a brother to me too.  We realise that all these years you were stigmatised, people were suspicious. I don't know, but I should think so, that your friends in the township, even the parents of the deceased, probably suspected that you were involved in their children's murders.  It is terrible to be suspected of something you are innocent of.  We understand that you must have felt guilty for having fetched these children at home, from home, to put them in such danger.  Besides the fact that you were on Robben Island for three years, psychologically you must really have been badly affected, especially your youth, because you are quite young, you are still growing up.  What I really want to say is that before
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you step down, is that I can imagine how much you were traumatised.  We have heard your request, because you do not hear well and the lapse of your memory.  Before you leave I would like to give you an opportunity, maybe there is something you would like to say to the audience.  Maybe you would like to address the parents of the deceased now that the truth is out.   Maybe you can also address your request to the parents.