COMMISSIONER
Just before you leave.  I would like to thank both of you really for coming forward to share and also to support the people of Alexandra.  The story that you have
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told us is one of those sad ones.  As I was listening I was imagining a pregnant woman sleeping in a house and all of a sudden having to jump around for her safety and also I would like to share, I suppose your gratefulness for being alive today.  Many people in the eighties who were trapped in those circumstances didn't survive.  Also I would like just to affirm what you have said and to thank you for your spirit of reconciliation.  In this community in particular you have referred to different political groupings, to people who assist the security forces and to the police themselves.  The call you have made is the call that we have been making since we started that, it is only if people come forward and apologise and talk to the people whose rights were violated that we can begin to talk about healing and reconciliation.  I thank you very much for coming forward.  How we will proceed we will ask Mr Bennet Lekalakala to just take five minutes in giving a perspective.  We are told that he has a written statement.  He is not coming here as a witness so the Commission will be happy to get a copy of what he is talking to.  And then after that we will break for tea.