MR VAN STRAATEN
Yes.   I was born in Rustenburg, the 5th of the 3rd month of 1958.   We lived in Rustenburg until I
was about five or six years old, and then we moved to Vereeniging in the Vaal Triangle.   I grew up in a home that was extremely conservative, Christians, and from a very young age it was impressed on me that black people are subjects, that our cultures are not the same.    Through the course of time, as I grew up, this impression became all the stronger.   With regard to my school years this remained the same, through primary and secondary school years.   I finished standard eight in school.