MR DU PLESSIS
Yes.  The answer to that question is the
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following.  If criminal proceedings should commence, if amnestyis not granted later, those applicants who have been prosecutedalready or have been brought before the court, namely BrigadierCronje, Captain Hechter and Captain Mentz will, in the light ofthe Tshabalala case, in all probability be entitled tohave sight of the statements and documents in the docket.  Ifone reads the Tshabalala case the State has to providevery good reasons why that should not happen.  
 Therefore my submission is that if the dockets are provided tothem now, or if the dockets are provided to them at a later stagewhen they make application to a criminal court to be providedwith the information in the dockets it would make no difference. The only possibility might be, and I must concede that, is thata court might refuse them access to the dockets.  Now the possibilityof that seems, in my submission, remote.  The possibility seems,in the light of the Tshabalala case and the rights of anaccused in terms of the Constitution, remote.  
 Our submission is that the possibility of the availability ofthe dockets to the applicants being refused by a criminal courtin future is so remote that one could actually accept that thedockets would be made available to the applicants in that if theyhave now sight of the dockets or in future sight of the docketswould make no difference.