CHAIRPERSON
On behalf of the commission I would like to thank you for being here, for sharing with us and with this audience and with the wider audience, what you have been through and the burden that you have carried.  The fact that you have gone to so much trouble and that so many of you are part of this, I think is an enormous tribute to Ric, and reminds us that he is not dead.
I think, secondly, your attribute to him today and your desire to find out the truth reminds us all that one vicious act touches some many people, not just one, but families, children, and children to come.   But you have also reminded us that ideas are powerful.   
Why they didn't like Richard Turner was not that he was not an activist, because really deeply down he wasn't one.   He was much more dangerous.   He had ideas and you can't kill an idea.   Yes, it is true that bearers of ideas become victims, but their ideas are passed on, and I think one of the greatest encouragements for you and for all of us is that the ideas that he espoused and propagated  shared, argued  about, debated, have come true.
Yes, we are a very young, weak, struggling democracy.   Yes, freedom is limited.   But, the pain we have now is not the pain of death, or the dance of death, it birth pain, and Richard Turner and many others were the midwives.   
You have asked for us to do certain things.   Let me say to Fowzia that obviously personally and in many other ways many of us would like to see that chair.   We would think it is well deserved.   This is not entirely within the scope of the commission.   We would have to be discussion with the university, but that discussion will take place.
As far as the subpoenas are concerned, and the attempt to find out even so much such a long time after the event, we have already issued subpoenas for:
Colonel Andy Taylor;
Brigadier Chris Earl;
Uri Prinsloo;
David Beeldus;
Arnold van der Westhuizen.
We are already in discussion with Paul Erasmus and Martin Dolinchek.   And tomorrow Basie Smit, who has already been subpoenaed, will be answering questions at a meeting that I will be at and some of my colleagues in Cape Town.   
Now, you will appreciate that it is extraordinary difficult to get to the truth.   You have experienced how difficult it is.   More than most.   We cannot promise that we will find the truth.   That we will pursue it, that we can promise.
I personally am very deeply encouraged by the events of this week.   Who would have thought that a Commission of Police, a former commissioner of the Police, the head of police in this country, would point a finger publicly at a former minister and a former State President.  Now, some of that truth has come about by subpoena.   Some of it because people cannot live with themselves any longer and need to tell the truth.   There are many ways.   I am not at all despairing that we will find the truth, I simply say we cannot promise that.   I actually think that there is an extremely good chance that the truth will be known.
What you do with that truth is up to you.   We, in the commission, are working towards reconciliation.  We think the truth is absolutely essential if there is to be reconciliation in South Africa.   We think your search and your quest and your suffering is a major contribution in that regard, but you would be the first to acknowledge that there are thousands upon thousands of South Africans across the length and breadth of this land whose truth must be known.   Our resources are very slim.   Our time is limited.   We will do what we can.  
The commission will stand adjourned for about 20 minutes and we will return at twenty two twelve.  We have two more witnesses that we want to hear before 1 o'clock.  Thank you.
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