MOKOTEDI MPSHE
Thank you, Mr Chairman.  Mr Chairman, if my learned friend is saying he's seeking for a postponement because of the additional documents that were given to him today, that consists of two pages.  If that is the reason for seeking for a postponement then I must hasten to oppose such an application.  Mr Chairman, and members of the Committee, the applicant was represented in July in the same application by the same advocate who knew the matter very well and when the matter was postponed by the then Committee, it was indicated to my learned friend the advocate here present that certain things are to be put right.  It was some time in July.  Now, I cannot understand, Mr Chairman, I'm not saying he should be able to do the matter today, but the bulk of the matter is known by my learned friend.  He prepared the documents.  He represented him in the month of July and he has consulted with the client many a times before this very month in July.  Now, for him to need a postponement only to read two pages, that are nothing new but it's just an amendment to the original affidavit, I've gone through that affidavit.  It does not change the original in any material respect.  He's just amending and saying, "I'm putting right what I've said in the other affidavit".  Mr Chairman, I must put on record my utmost dissatisfaction.  I know it is the duty of the Committee to do that, but the way in which my learned friend has carried himself in this matter is really, if I'm not blamed for being defamatory, very unethical.  To keep the Committee waiting for the whole day and the people and everybody here only to seek at the last moment a postponement.  Mr Chairman, when we left the chambers, the idea was for them to look into the question of calling witnesses, whether they will call them or not to discuss with the client.  They did that and they came back to me and I said, "Look, if you've got that witness to call, Mr Sibiya, I have no objection.  You can hand up his affidavit and dispense with him.  I will not object.  I won't even ask a question pertaining to Mr Sibiya's affidavit".  My learned friend and his attorney agreed and they said they are going to talk to the client, and when they come back now it is no more the question of witnesses, it is a question of further information.  Mr Chairman, I'm dissatisfied by this changing or moving around of poles at the expense of the taxpayer's money.  That is all.