MR HOLE
Mr Chairman, if one looked at the events in Ciskei at the time, if one looked at the fact that it was their own Commanding Officer who had been abducted, drugged and put in the boot of a car and taken by an opposing party to Transkei and which Transkei was hostile to the state that they was serving, one can understand how such extreme measures were used.
	Also looking at the fact that these ladies were transported from Douglasdale Farm in the boot of a vehicle to the police 
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station, one would assume that there would be people at the police station who would have seen them off-loading people from the boot.   If one reads that scenario, Mr Chairman, one can see that it appears that even the Uniform Branch who might have been manning the Alice Police Station did not care two hoots about what was happening to these people, otherwise they would not have transported them to a police station in the boot of a car.	This is the level to which the members serving in the Ciskei Police Force at the time had sunk.   The transporting of a person in the boot of a car was also done to Gen Kwane Sebe, the son of the President, according to the affidavits of these people, when he was taken to Transkei.
	In my submission Mr Chairman, these applicants have made a proper case for the extension of amnesty to them.   I would, on the basis of this and my argument and the evidence that have tended before this Committee, request that the Committee may be pleased to grant amnesty to each one them in respect of each of these offences.
	Unless the Committee wants to hear me on any further aspect, that would be my address on the merits of the matter.   Thank you Mr Chairman.