MR CURRIN
There is no difficulty at all.  Should the Committee decide that we must call particular witnesses to substantiate allegations in this document, to be cross-examined, we will not hesitate in doing that.  May I just mention that the reason why we prepared this particular document. Being the first application, we were not sure and having been given four days in which to prove our case, we were not sure, the nature and extent of the evidence, that we were expected to lead, in establishing our clients' case.  What we did was, we communicated with the Committee to try and get some guidelines, and we were told that we should deal with the application as we deem fit, but - and in terms of the guidelines, we should ensure that we could curtail evidence as far as is practically possible, and that is really the intention of the document.
	As you know, the Act does provide very particularly, 
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that the Committee needs to have reference to the context in which the crime was committed.  The context is something which is elaborate, it is complex, it has far-reaching
implications.  There are many, many people that have written about Bophuthatswana, many, many people who have researched and published about Bophuthatswana.  We can call all of those people if we need to, but we are trying ... (intervention).