MR RUDOLPH
Your Honour, in the first instance I am going to tell you about a part of my application, as I called it then the application for amnesty.  I am going to give you the background and the reasons, the political events and the events at Ventersdorp.
	When I read this to you, I will attempt to do this in the third person rather than the first person.  I am going to read this and if I speak about the applicant I am referring to myself.
	At that stage the applicant was 58 years old, Afrikaans-speaking and residing at Plot 25, Wildebeeshoek, Dewild.  The application is the founder of the Order of the Boerevolk movement which is therefore the reinstatement of the two Boer Republics as it existed in 1902, before Great Britain took over.  Under the ...(indistinct) of the movement the applicant was involved in the incidents of political ...(intervention)