CHAIRPERSON
Good people, thank you for coming here to support this hearing.  Charles Dickens in one of his books, The Tale of Two Cities, speaks about the best of times and the worst of times, and also one of the biblical authors in the book of Ecclesiastes does itemise or categorise different times in his biblical ... (inaudible) ... based on the socio-religio conditions of his time, and I see the similar situation of our time.  But ours was the worst of times.  We have heard shocking stories, stories of dehumanisation of God's people by other human beings, and I believe that at the day or the time they were doing these things they were also dehumanised, because there are no decent people who could do these things to other fellow human beings.  We have heard about what has been happening on the farms, and I believe that the farms need to be investigated.  And we have heard about some of the doctors who, according to their oath, should be interested in saving lives, who were colluding with the forces which were killing the people.  And I believe some of the doctors need to be investigated.  And one of the bad things about what we are hearing is that some of these policemen are still employed by this Government, and maybe this is an indictment to our Government too of National Unity.  Ours was the worst of times, and we are still going to hear stories during these last two days, and I am sure we are going to hear the stories of the same battle.  We thank the Government of National Unity for having instituted this process of the Truth Commission, otherwise  /we would
we would not know about these shocking stories.  
Now we are going to close, and we are going to sing the national anthem, and please come back tomorrow at 9 o'clock.  Thank you for how you have conducted yourselves.
NATIONAL ANTHEM
PROCEEDINGS  ADJOURNED  TO  1997/06/25
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