MR DU PLESSIS
: Yes, Mr Chairman the point I would havewanted to make, the point is two-fold.   The first point I wantto make and perhaps I can do it now, the first point I want toplace on record is that we have had indications from Mr Currinabout the ages of these people, I would want to request Mr Currin,where he acts on behalf of these families, if he could try andobtain birth certificates.   That would be the easiest thing possibleto ascertain their ages.   I can't understand why that was notdone.   In any case probably he didn't have time so I'm not pointinga finger to him at all.   That's the first point Mr Chairman.
At this point in time, there is a lot of confusion about how oldthey really were.   The second point is if this document reallyrefers to those people, then clearly from the document itselfit contradicts what was told to the Committee about the ages.  The third point I want to make is that this document doesn'tconnect each of the people referred to by Mr Currin to the specificpeople in this document.   I don't really know what the worthof this evidence is, I'm placing that on record, I'm going toargue that Mr Chairman that worth or the value of the evidencethat I've dealt with now is really, according to the applicants,nil.