ADV TEE
Now, the first, that was why I was going to deal with Shabangu last.  That allegation is without substance for the following reasons.  Firstly, Mr Shabangu did not agree with that approach when asked specifically about that by the Magistrate and what that says about Shabangu is the following and I would ask this Committee to make this as a finding.  It means that Shabangu is a man of the most exceptional integrity.  It means that Shabangu is a very balanced, evenhanded and fair man.  Where does one find a victim who has nearly been killed by his attacker saying I am not going to speculate that that was the reason.  Shabangu is clearly a man who is so fundamentally honest that he is not even prepared to stoop to the level of imputing a motive be it false or true, but the fact that he did not shows that because Shabangu himself is a man of integrity and balance and honesty is that he did not believe that that was the reason and that is the significant aspect.  He did not believe that is had anything to do with that.
	He, Shabangu, was also aware, he must have been aware of the problems that had been going on at the time with the disinformation and Shabangu has been in the hearings and was a victim and has not come forward to discredit Joe Nkuna and what is even more significant, Shabangu and Nkuna were friends.  He knew, he knew the man and he knows that Nkuna would not be motivated by the pettiness of trying to get back at an individual where a collective decision had been made to suspend him and where he had survived the suspension and, in fact, there is no direct evidence that at the time of the attack there was any correlation between his suspension from the African National Congress and his position as a MK commander and that, I submit, is the most significant aspect there.  As a MK commander he stands apart from the political organisation.  
	So, Shabangu knew that.  Shabangu knows that he is not prepared to come and add grease to the mill.  He is not prepared to make a statement that because of a problem in the political arena Nkuna took it out in the military arena, no.  He knows when Nkuna, the trustworthy one, was acting Nkuna believed what he was doing.