CHAIRPERSON
We don't know what to do, it is just that there is a vindication that has happened when maybe people were going through all of the people and the anguish and suffering, even though you believed freedom was going to come, there must have been moments when you doubted and it seemed like the powers of evil just might overwhelm good. We are glad, I mean, that we worship a God who is a God of justice, a God of goodness, a God of freedom, and that this God has not let us down.  When we used to say that the freedom we are talking about, is not a freedom for Black people, it is going to be freedom for everyone, because we used to say, and people sometimes thought we were being funny, that White people in this country would never be free until all of us were free together.  Now they are seeing the truth of that. We give thanks for all who have contributed: Black, White, Coloured, Indian, who have contributed to what we have now.  We would want to endorse your call.
 The Commission is not a court of law.  We are not asking people to come and tell us their story so that we should prosecute them.  The purpose is that we should know the truth and then work for reconciliation, forgiveness, healing, unity of our nation.
 The Army officers in Bisho last week, when they said we gave the orders that people should be shot, were sorry. The people sitting there heard this and accepted, and many will still be surprised at the willingness of those who have suffered, to forgive.  We pray that they will hear your call. They will hear the call of so many others, come and
KLERKSDORP HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
17 S M RASMENI
reveal what happened.
 The thing is of course, that the truth will come out.  It will come out. I mean, you try to hide it, it keeps pushing out. It will come out. I mean, we may not get all of the truth ourselves, but it is going to come out. We want to say that we have been given the work of discovering the truth together.  Then people say this is horrible, it is ugly, it is evil, but we must look at it and say yes, it was evil, but it is possible to mooe away from it, because people have acknowledged "I did do this; I did do this; I did do this".  We must know that we as human beings are also people who are capable of doing horrible things.  It is good to know all of those horrible things and pray that God will preserve us from doing some of the things that were done to our people. 
 I thank you very, very much.  We are most grateful.