MARK RICHARD SPARG
I think his name was du Plessis, please forgive me because you only worked for us for about 8 months.  8 or 9 months, ja and it was a while back since.  Anyway, I just want to get my, recollect my thoughts.  Yes, ok so, we closed the shop on the Friday and I asked my security guards, this is a new guard who would come on for night shift just to stay around and guard the premises.  We put our TV set in the boot, we took the money that we had on for the week's takings and we left Nchoga because in my judgement, it was alright for me to take my risks there, but not my family and we walked out.  We left our furniture in the home, all that sort of thing with the intention of seeing what the situation would be like after elections, bearing in mind that the elections were two and a half  months away.   I received word mid March that our furniture and that was at risk, so two of my friends.   We hired a truck and they went to Nchoga for me.  I didn't go myself because I believed that somebody had intentions to do me harm myself.   Anyway, to cut a long story short we managed, they managed to  load our goods but we wanted to leave the Nchoga station, they had to go to the Tsomo Police who couldn't help them because it wasn't their district and the Kofomvamu Police wouldn't have been able to help them because they never had a van so they went, they were carted in my friend's van to Nchoga and only with their help could we actually get the truck out the yard.  And anyway, to cut a long story short, in approximately the end of March, I believe that there were PAC members involved in the initial theft out of the shop and when the rest of the community saw what was going on, it became a free for all.   Slight, I was insured with Fedgen and I had paid the Sasria for the year but like all insurance policies, there's always a sting in the tail.  If the policy isn't enforced then Sasria falls away whether you paid for the service for the year or not, so how's that for robbery, but anyway, on the 24th of March my brokers received a fax from Fedgen saying that my installment hadn't gone through for March.  Well I wasn't trading in March, so that's understandable.  The next day they were give, they gave us ten days in which to pay the installment.  The next day there seems to have been collusion between my brokers and Fedgen because the next day they received a fax on the 25th of March, cancelling my policy.  I did tender payment of that installment and Mr Green at Fedgen refused to accept it.  I never had the fi...  I did contact Legal Aid to see what I could do about this.