MR DLAMINI
14B/19 sentenced to death could have played in the rebuilding of our nation.  Now, that doesn't leave us at the point where we just need to focus on the judges.  One must look at the whole apartheid legal system and I don't want to go into too much of detail here, just to highlight the different categories of people who played a role in making all the evil of apartheid go smoothly in those dark days, and I would highlight the role of the attorney-general and their staff and the many advocates who worked under them, who relished their task in prosecuting political trials, where they really tore into people who were put on trial and used every means possible to secure convictions.  The second categories is the state attorneys and their staff, who defended and covered up for police brutality in thousands of civil claims over the years and who provided the legal defence for perpetrators of violence against people during those days.  The many senior magistrates - this is the next category - in the regional courts, who did as much and more than the judges in the Supreme Court in terms of the volume and their enthusiasm.  Justice in the lower courts was not meted out with the finesse of the Supreme Courts in those days.  One does not have to remind ourselves of the post-mortem hearings and the mockery that they made of justice in this country, where all the detainees who were murdered were subjected to this sham of a post-mortem hearing.  The cases of Steve Biko, Ahmed Timol, Dr Haffejee, Neil Aggett and many other detainees who were tortured to death.  This reinforced the violence of apartheid and gave support, protection and gumption to the foot soldiers and policemen of apartheid.  What about the Law Societies and the Bar Council, which were the