MR WITZ
Thank you Mr Commissioner.  I represent General Neethling.  Advocate Mannie Witz instructed by Attorney Adolf Malan.  In view of what you told us on Monday together with the Committee, I've received instructions from my instructing attorney together with my colleague Advocate Cilliers who went home already on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
	We need to know and get some ruling in regard to the application which is presently before you, whether or not and what the position is in regard to Lieutenant General Neethling who is interests I'm here to represent.
	We received a notice from my learned friend Mr Steenkamp who is the evidence leader of the Amnesty Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in terms of Section 19(4), which reads very simply:
"To General Loot ...[indistinct] Neethling, Hatfield. That an application for amnesty of H du Plessis, van Rensburg, Raath and Erasmus in terms of Section 18 will be considered and heard at the Old Mutual building, 106 Adderly Street, on the 9th to the 13th of February at 09H00.
Take note as further that as a person interested in the application you has a right to be present.  You are implicated in: No1"
I'm just shortening it Mr Chairman.
"The abduction, killing and disposing of Sizwe Kondile"
	Now, without going into argument and just looking briefly at the evidence, I need some type of ruling in order to protect the interests of my client because it's clear in what you have before you that none of the four applicants that are mentioned have in any way either mentioned or implicated Lieutenant General Neethling in either the abduction, killing and disposing of Sizwe Kondile.  
	And in view of what Mr Coetzee has said today it's clear that if the knock-out drops were in fact administered by some other person, this had no part at all in either the abduction and/or killing and/or disposing of Sizwe Kondile so I need to know my position in this regard Mr Chairman. It is important in order to protect the interests of my client. 
	We did receive the notice, that is the reason that we are here and I need some type of ruling - possibly after the tea adjournment because it might lead to further complications in this matter in regard to availability of my instructing attorney, the counsel who is in the matter with me, Advocate Cilliers and whether or not we would need an opportunity to consider the matter to cross-examine Mr Coetzee - which would be at length, in relation to his allegations.  
	I know it was in unusual circumstances in which you've allowed Mr Coetzee to answer questions in essence relating to this matter.  And if possible Mr Chairman, after the tea adjournment you could give some ruling in regard to the admissibility or weight of evidence if at all, of Mr Coetzee in relation only specifically to my client, Lieutenant General Neethling.  Thank you Mr Chairman.