FERDINAND BARNARD
Mr Chairperson, I saw the parole officer once every two weeks and afterwards once a month, but I never informed the parole officer that I changed careers.  I still had the same telephone numbers, so I misled them concerning this.  And then concerning the criminal involvement and the involvement with drugs, it started over a longer period of time, because I was tasked by the system to have contact with these criminals every day and it was a systematic change that happened.
	After I was released from prison I was 31 years old and I was so fit and I got a place in the first team in the Roodepoort rugby team and as I became more and more involved in it and I had to prove myself and where people tested me I went overboard.  I still cannot believe that I ended up where I did, because I did not take any substances my whole life and then ...  There's no-one here who can say I drank a single beer until I became 32, and then suddenly I became a full-on alcoholic and drug addict.  It is something that happened to me and that is why I want to become the way I was before.  
	That is why in C-Max, C-Max did what two rehabilitation centres could not do.  I am fit, I live a healthy life and I feel there's a big step towards healing, in that I came here to tell the truth and made a full disclosure.  It's not even important if you believe me or not, for myself it's important.