UNKNOWN
Thank you Mr Chairman.  General I will do the cross-examination in Afrikaans.
	What I wanted to read to you first of all, before we continue with the cross-examination, I want to read to you a passage from the opening statement made at the beginning of testimony just with regard to Brigadier Cronje, Captain Hechter, W/O van Vuuren, Colonel Venter and Captain Mentz, to sketch for you the background from where Brigadier Cronje and them find themselves with regard to the applications, what their approach is to their applications and what their views are.  I will read to you from the record from page 9.
This is now in English.
"We will give evidence about our actions during the time of the conflict and will show that all our actions were purely and simply associated with the political objective, namely, to uphold the National Party government and apartheid, to fight communism and to resist liberation of South Africa and democracy for all in South Africa.  We are not criminals.  We have never committed any criminal deed outside the sphere of the conflicts of the past, and we have not accepted any extra financial or patrimonial incentives for anything we have done.  We believed that we acted bona fide in the interests of our country and our people.  We will show that we at all times believed that we were acting in the course and scope of our duties and within the scope of our authority".
	Page 11, and I would ask you to listen very carefully please General.
"We, as proud Afrikaners, are part of this country and shall be part of this country in the future.  We are prepared to forgive those who have sinned against us in the past.  We have forgiven the concentration camps of the Boer War where innocent women and children have died.  We are prepared to forgive those who have waged war during the struggle, also on innocent women and children.
		We similarly ask forgiveness for those who lost their lives and those who were injured and we share the grief of those family members of victims who have suffered during the era of conflict.  
		We have sincere regret that people have suffered on both sides and we wish to express the sincere hope that the time for truth and reconciliation in South Africa has now arrived.
		We call upon our superiors, and the previous government, not to deny responsibility but to stand by the people and to admit responsibility for what was done by us in our endeavours to keep them in power.
		We all supported the National Party until 1994.  What we had done was always in the interests of the National Party and its objectives.  We believed in the policies of the National Party and believed that we had to carry out our duties in support of our party.  
		We state emphatically that we have been deserted by the National Party and that we have so-to-speak been thrown away in the gutter where we now have to take the responsibility on our shoulders to deal with our past, to motivate our actions and to present our view, as Afrikaners, of the conflict.
		We call upon the previous government and our superiors to explain certain orders given to us about which we shall testify and to admit to authorising actions outside the normal processes of the law such as are demonstrated by the facts of our deeds and the authorisation thereof".
	Now General this is the gist of the opening statement prior to Brigadier Cronje's initial testimony, do you take note of this?