COMMISSIONER
Mr Naidu, both Mr Naidus, you heard the
comments that I made earlier to the witness before you, Gloria Nyoka, and I repeat those for your benefit as well.  We can only imagine what you and your family must have gone through to have to identify your brother, and your son, in the condition in which you found him.  He was a young person who, as you have said, devoted much of his younger life to doing voluntary work for others.  He became politicised, as was inevitable for an aware young person in those days.  He left the country.  If you just consider that if he had been arrested and charged according to the law in those days, charged for being a member of the ANC, charged for leaving the country unlawfully, or without a passport, there's no doubt that he would have been alive and free today.  But that's not how it happened in those days, and the overwhelming probabilities are - taking into account that both these groups died on different days in exactly the same circumstances, the overwhelming probabilities are that they were simply murdered, and placed - as I recall from those times - on top of each other in a prison cell, where you had to identify them.
We know that Mr de Kock and Mr Nafumela have applied for amnesty, and we will be having a very close look at those applications for amnesty to see whether they make full disclosure, as they are obliged to do, and to see what their version is of these events.  It is also possible that when de Kock gives his address in mitigation of sentence - as you know he's just been sentenced on 89 charges, including six of murder - when he gives his address in mitigation of sentence it is expected that he  will refer to other incidents, and that also may be some
lead in to find out what happened in June 1988 to your brother, to your son.
So we thank you for having had the courage to have come forward here today and to have made the remarks you did about this Commission and its work.  Thank you very much indeed.