MR HOLE
Yes Sir thank you. Sir I would submit that the act that the applicants made themselves guilty of is an act as envisaged in the Act, the founding Act of this committee. Mr Chairman I would submit further that it appears that the act that they committed was committed with a political motive to pursue or further the interests of a political organisation to which they belonged at the time. It is in my submission Mr Chairman clearly an act of a political nature, directed against a person who was perceived at the time as being an obstacle to what the applicants and the rest of the community wanted to achieve. In that sense Sir, Mr Chairman Sir, the act was indeed an act that had a political purpose. It in my submission fits in with the definition as contained in the Act. And it does not appear that there is a situation where the act that they committed is too remote from the purposes that they wanted to achieve.
	I would ask that the Committee should find it fit to extend amnesty to these applicants. Unless the Committee wants to hear me on any other aspect Sir that would be my address on the merits of this matter.