MR NEL
Thank you Mr Chairperson.  Members of the Committee, if I may quote to you from the preamble of the Act, the functions, one of the functions of this Commission is to establish the truth in relation to past events, as well as the motives for the circumstances in which gross violations of human rights, have occurred, and to make the findings known in order to prevent a repetition of such acts in the future.
	Now, I submit with respect that before the amnesty application of Mr Gwamanda could be considered, this Commission must make a decision whether he is to be believed, in what he is saying.
	In order to believe that Mr Gwamanda has told this Commission the truth during his evidence, the Commission must believe certain things like that the AWB and the IFP has worked hand in hand, it must believe that the AWB planned and plotted an assassination on Mr Matthew Phosa and that the AWB in fact, wanted to kill Mr Phosa in 1993.
	It must also believe that prison warders would train a man with an atrocious criminal record in the handling of AK47's, R1 rifles and various assault weapons, it must believe that the AWB will use somebody to assassinate Mr Phosa who has never even seen Mr Phosa, who does not even know from his own evidence, at the time that he went to Nelspruit, what Mr Phosa looked like.
	It must also believe that an assassination of this nature is planned without giving the assassin any concrete instructions.  It must believe that an assassination is going to take place in the middle of broad daylight, where the members of the so-called hit squad or planners, are clad in full AWB uniform, there is a congregation of 4 x 4's planning this assassination in the middle of Nelspruit, in front of the post office.