MR DEHAL
That or the following, that when one ties Alzina's version with his version and looks at them as flip sides of a coin, here is a man, Frederick, who no doubt on Alzina's version has been seeing this child regularly.  In fact the child has been visiting his home and he has been visiting the child, he is the elder brother in the family.  In the nature of things, that must be the more believable version.  That is as true as Frederick's version is untrue about his having not seen the child for many years.  He says "I don't associate with the child, the child since the death of my brother has gone back to the farm, I've not seen the child."  So at that level I say that there is a ring of untruth in his version and therefore that reason must be unbelievable, his version must not be acceptable.
	But then there is another contradiction.  He says he last met the deceased and Alzina - sorry, may I just look at my notes, bear with me?  Yes, he said he last met the deceased and Alzina on the morning of the 1st January and when questioned about this he distances himself from that and says "no, no, I did not meet them, this was a report made to me by the children".  Now Mr Chairperson, against the background of this I submit that Frederick was a man who was simply stretching the elastic to it's limit in his desire to gain effect.  His version must be rejected.  Alzina on the other hand I concede immediately is a believable witness.  She comes in here and she says it with so much of candour and truth that even I could not cross-examine her to break her at any level.  There are, despite that, contradictions between her written statement and herself.  Indeed the contradiction relating to the three stab wounds as opposed to one stab wound and the contradiction between "the body having been loaded into Mbambo's vehicles at the time I got there" as opposed to "having already being loaded in there when first I got to Mbambo" are versions that can be argued away on the basis that no doubt she made a statement as is common cause as is evident on the statement on the day of the death so she must have been at level disturbed.