PHILEMON KABILA MAXAM
I am glad that you have asked me this question, because this Truth and Reconciliation Commission that I am standing before, at court I was deceptive, because I was protecting myself from the system, from the police themselves.  To the Magistrate I was advised, by the same police that had arrested me, that I must not talk about politics at all in my defence, I must just say that I wanted money.  At the time I had no legal representation.  At the time I thought that I would even be taken from my cell and be killed by the police.  When I got the opportunity to come before this Commission last year and today and reveal the whole truth, because I believe that this Commission was not formed under segregation and oppression.  This is why you will find a discrepancy between my evidence to the Magistrate at the time and today.  You will even find that my statement changed from the trial with the Magistrate to the Supreme Court, because at the Supreme Court I had legal representation.