GEORGE BIZOS
There is a preliminary matter that we want to deal with and that is this, that Minister Dullah Omar intended being here this morning.  Unfortunately pressing business kept him in Pretoria.  I am here, together with my colleagues, to oppose the applications for amnesty.  	However, Minister Dullah Omar is the Minister responsible for pirating this legislation through Parliament and for a number of years the Minister responsible for it's implementation.  He wants to avoid speculation as to what his attitude to these applications is.  He has prepared a statement dealing with this issue and I think that it is important in order to avoid speculation, that that statement should be read to you and I think it would be appropriate if we ask his daughter to read it on his behalf and I ask for leave for her to do it now, Mr Chairman.