GEN VAN DER WESTHUIZEN
Chairperson thank you very much.  I'd like to say the following
	There are three things about which I have regrets. 
	Firstly, I am sorry about the fact that the new RSA had to be borne from a revolutionary war and that it wasn't the result of an evolutionary process.  A political process which should have started decades ago.
	Secondly, what I am sorry about was that Strelitzia was never applied.  That would have made a plan like Katzen unnecessary.  
	But above all what I am sorry about is that there are all those victims and casualties on both the revolutionary and the counter-revolutionary sides.  I regret the deaths and the maiming and - I am sorry about the death and disruption and the maiming of people on both sides and especially one thinks of all the civilians, civilians on both sides who were affected.
	Having said that, Chairperson, I am very pleased that the revolutionary war never ended up as a destructive civil war, because a civil war is one of the worst types of war which a country can experience, and the fact that it never degenerated into a civil war should be acknowledged by both sides who took part in the war and both sides should be given recognition for that.
	Secondly I am pleased that nobody was directly killed as a result of Katzen.
	In the third place I am glad that, as one of the first generals to appear before an amnesty committee, I had the opportunity to sketch the Defence Force's role in this war.
	I am also pleased, and I am glad that I have the opportunity to take part in the peace and recovery of the country.  For me a general who only fights in the war and does nothing afterwards is only half a general. 
	Then in conclusion, I came here and didn't know what to expect.  There is a lot of criticism expressed towards the TRC, for me the proceedings here were dignified and just and fair, and I feel the better person for it.  
	Thank you.