ADV PRIOR
Thank you Mr Chairman.  Mr Chairman, today being the 18th of January 1999, for the further continuance of the Boipatong amnesty hearings, the delay has been occasioned by the applicants not being present.
	I understand that three or four that were coming from prison, had not been brought to the hearing.  I have made numerous enquiries and no one seems to know precisely what the position is.  
	The jails, or the prisons, acknowledge that they received proper notice of the hearing, but we are busy investigating why these people are not here.  The names are Magubane, Mkwanazi, if I may just be assisted with the other two, Mazibuko and is it Mbele.
	I understand that some of the other applicants who are not in prison, are also not present, bar Mr Mkhize and Mr Buthelezi are present here today, as well as Mr Kubeka.
	Mr Chairman, we were anticipating them arriving in order that the evidence could be led in sequence and the evidence that may impact of them, be heard in their presence, rather than hearing it in their absence, which may have created certain problems.  But to date there is no, I can't give you any firm explanation as to why those people are not here.  Thank you Mr Chairman.