MR VISSER
Mr Chairman, the matter starts with some applications which were heard by your brother, Wilson, Mr Malan and Ms Sandi Sigodi some time ago.  I believe it was November last year.  At that hearing, on the request of Judge Wilson, we led one witness, Col Botha, to deal with the various
aspects of the violence in Natal.  That evidence, Chairperson, was transcribed and it now resides in a record in the hearing of the death of Portia Ndwandwe, N-D-W-A-N-D-W-E, MK name Zandile, from page 516, Chairperson, to page 819.  Some 303 pages.  The idea at the time, Mr Chairman, was that that very same Committee would be hearing all the incidents which took place in Natal.  Now for obvious reasons that has not happened, but we only heard about that last Thursday.  
	Now we refer you to the record, Chairperson, not to intimidate you, but to mention to you that it would not be a fruitful exercise in our respectful submission to just place this before you and require you to read it.  There may be questions which may arise in your minds, which did not arise in the minds of the other Committee Members and by far and away, the more appropriate way of dealing with it is to make a brief summary for you, which we intend to do today and which you've already referred to.
	But Chairperson, as far as the housekeeping matters are concerned which I referred to, may I refer you to a meeting which was held on the 5th of February in Pretoria, chaired by Justice Wilson where Mr Malan was also present, where ways and means were discussed of how to possibly accelerate the amnesty process.  
	Having undertaken to do what we can in that regard we went away, Chairperson, and we drew a document.  Now it is not too far in the distant past for you to remember what the original amnesty applications which we brought before you looked like.  I mean it was piles and piles and piles of a welter of documents.  We went and drafted a summary, Chairperson.  The summary was intended to cover most instances of amnesty applications which would come before any of the Amnesty Committees.  We forwarded last week to the TRC, a copy for your benefit of this particular document.  We called the document "General Background to Amnesty Applications".  This is with apologies to Commissioner Lax who has come across this exercise once before, but he will allow me to just fill you in. 
	Chairperson, we are told that that document has been reproduced by the TRC and was supposed to have been forwarded to you.  We are also informed that it is not before you.  What we can do in the meantime, with your leave, is to hand to you copies which we have made so that at least it is before you in the meantime so that the day might be fruitfully occupied by having a brief glance at that, but I do intend to take you very briefly through that document just to speak to the document and give you a feeling of what we're about.  May we hand that up to you, Chairperson?