COMMISSIONER
Thank you, Mr Madela, very much ... (inaudible) ... in January 1987.  It seems from that day on your whole life was turned upside-down.  You were sitting on a bus, on your way home, wearing the uniform of your employer, and that was sufficient for soldiers of the South African Defence Force to brutally assault you.  These were people whose job it should have been to protect people and to uphold the law, but because of the system of apartheid it was their job to uphold that system, and they spent much of their time and their energy harassing and assaulting people, and it is little wonder that ordinary people have so little respect for the law and its institutions today.  As Dr Magwaza has said, we are not in a position directly to assist you, but we will make recommendations to the police as to how people like you may be assisted, and we will be passing those recommendations on to the State President.  And we certainly will look at the court documents, or the papers, affidavits that you filed with your attorney, to see why no action was taken in that case.  And we will look at the documents from the Durban Corporation to find out why you were placed on early retirement, to see whether this was in fact linked with your assault.  Again thank you very much for coming in and telling us your story.  Thank you very much.  