MR CURRIN
Mr Chairman, I think it would be helpful just for me to give a - just a very brief explanation because I do know what happened in his particular case.  His name was left off as a result of an administrative error.  There was at the time a lot of backwards and forwarding and running and trying to organise this list of names of people that were to be submitted.  His is not the only name that was left off.  There are other cases where groups of people were found guilty and three or four or five or six of a larger group's names appeared whereas others did not appear.  When you read through this record you will see that his involvement was no more or no less than the others.  There is no reason in regard to the actual crime that would justify his name being left off. It was purely an administrative error.  My enquiries a couple of years ago, indicated that that was in fact the case.  The reason why, and I don't, I can't tell you why President Mandela did not approve the - what was in President Mandela's mind as to why he did not approve the recommendation, but the information that I got from other sources and my understanding of discussions that I had with other political players, was that throughout that period there were deals that were being struck; if we release a person from the left then we must release a person from the right, and what's good for the goose is good for the gander.  And that negotiation was going on right through the early nineties and at some stage there was a decision that they would stop releasing people on political deals and hand it over to the Truth Commission and at the end of the day let the Truth Commission decide.
	Another one, for example, which was similar was the case of Brian Mitchell.  In my capacity as chairperson of that advisory committee, we also recommended that Brian Mitchell be released.  And it was - because there was this general decision once it was known that there was going to be an amnesty committee as part of the Truth Commission, they decided to leave it up to the Amnesty Committee to deal with the matters as and when they came before the Committee. So one can say that they really transferred the responsibility of dealing with these matters to yourselves.