KHOZA MGOJO
We wish to welcome you this morning.  Those who have come to give testimony with regard to human rights violations that they went through in the past as well as things that happened to their relatives and families and the community at large.  We admire the courage with which you have handled this matter so that you may appear before this Commission in order to try and straighten up the wrongs that were done in the past.  We thank you very much for the effort.  We wish that the Lord may help you and give you strength and courage to give testimony without fear and without hindrance and without any doubt.  We also thank those who have come before this Commission even those who have accompanied the witnesses and their community to come and witness the changing of history as a new era dawns.  We urge you to encourage the others who were also violated in the past to come and appear before this Commission so that they can also have a chance to relate their stories.  But I want especially to welcome these young South Africans who have come to be here this morning with us.  They will say in future when they tell their children and their friends in the future generation when you'll be reading history - when this thing becomes history to say that, "You know when there were the hearings at Empangeni, we were there.  We listened.  We heard."  We feel that you are already involving yourselves in the process of reconciliation and cleansing of our nation because when you are here you are part of it.  We thank  the one who is with you, who has accompanied to come with you.  May the Lord bless you always so that you can hear this, so that we don't - because after all this country's yours in future, you young people, so that during the times when you're old, these things which have happened will never happen again.  We are one nation, the rainbow nation.  Thank you very much.