PETRUS TAPELO MOHAPI
What I would like to explain or to add Sir, I will appeal to the members of the Commission to understand the prevailing circumstances during those years in our country.  I will request them to use their own discretion if these people who were called Blacks were oppressed during those times what was their expectations concerning those people if those people had bad feelings I will explain to the Commission that it was okay about what has happened.  But if they were supposed to be positive according to the situations because they were so under oppression, but if they were supposed to feel wrongly - I will request the Committee because use their own discretion.
	Another thing I would like to say concerning this amnesty if I am being pressed on my toes by somebody who regards himself as White I don't want to consider that as a mistake and told him that I could realise that your feet is on top of mine, no that is not a mistake at all.  What I am trying to explain here is that this person has pressed me on my toes so I need to explain to him will you please remove your foot from my toes.  I will quote in English Sir if you allow me:
"Where there is suppression and oppression there will always be resistance.  Where there is an action there is a reaction.  And where there is reaction there is resistance".
But not in this case which are appealing in our country and those people who claim as bosses they do whatever they want to do with us.  
	Ladies and gentlemen apartheid is a sin and it's wrong in such a way that we cannot compare it with anything in the world.  If it wasn't wrong it was not supposed to be approved.  It was supposed to be here today.  What I am trying because explain our history told us that in 1973 the United Nations made a special committee against apartheid isolating the apartheid which was prevailing in South Africa in 1973.  The history told us that there was a United Nations International Convention on the suppression and the punishment of apartheid, it was called crime against humanity, that is crime.  That is why they have scrapped apartheid.  They appealed to us that we must forgive them about what they have done.  This has happened for so many years, I am not talking about 18 or three years time in this case.  
	What I would like to explain because you is that we are the ones who have felt the pains and we know it exactly.  For example, gentlemen, we have been staying in Because and you know the houses, even the toilets just go to Because, even here in Manaung where Black people are being situated, you will see hunger, those people are very hungry, just enter here around us in this area, there is prosperity Sir, there is life in those areas.  It means that - there are so many bicycles, tricycles and the motor cars but in the area where I am staying I can't see a single bicycle, I can say it's very rarely.  The only thing that you can see on our streets is that a wheelbarrow.  Maybe it's the issue of our colour being black we are always carrying these five litres of paint just to paint our own people.
	Honourable members we were not being oppressed by mistake, this was a real purpose.  Mr Verwoerd is the architect of apartheid.  This has been planned, it's not a mistake to our Black people in this country.  This was intentional.  If you have to react they say you are wrong.  According to the laws which represented them perhaps the issue is that we were Blacks.  Even in front of court that is wrong.  I can't remember where in the Bible, I can't even remember comrades, that God have explained that people, especially the Black people should be oppressed.  All this has been done intentionally, we are the victims of apartheid. ...(intervention)