RUSSELL ALLY
Mr Manthata, welcome and thank you for coming.  I can see from your statement that you were one of the older residents of, of this area and that you have a long history of involvement and understanding.  I see you give your date of birth as July 1908, so there's obviously a long involvement and rich experience and what you're going to really speak about is, is how, because of the political views which, which you held, you were victimized from early on but you're going to be speaking about, particular events and, which led to an attempted banishment and the effects that this had on you.  So I'm going to ask you if you will please just give us an account of, of, of these experiences which you have told us about in your statement.