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Thank you Mr Chairman.  Mr Mpshe and myselfhave, as I have told you, decided that we won't go ahead withColonel Venter and that for purposes of the speaker of the NorthwestParliament if you give permission that we can go ahead with furtherevidence we would like to deal with one specific incident relatingto Mr Tebedi.  I beg your pardon she reminds me that they haveto make their submissions, I forgot about that, I am sorry.
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 Mr Chairman, honoured members of the Committee the families ofthe Pepco 3 have some idea of what happened to their loved ones,from revelations outside this Commission which they have beenunable to test.  They know that they were abducted, tortured andmurdered at the hands of the police.  They had hoped, however,to establish today from Venter's submissions and testimony thefiner details of what exactly happened on that day, who the responsibleperpetrators are and most importantly where the bodies are.  The families have brought three applications since the fatefulday when their loved ones disappeared for the police to producethem to the Court.  In every one of those 
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applications the police vehemently denied that the men were arrestedor detained.  
 The families want only to establish who committed these grossviolations and to find the bodies so that they can give theirloved ones a proper burial and put the matter to rest.  This isafter all the whole purpose of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissionto establish the whole truth so that reconciliation and reconstructioncan be advanced. 
 When an amnesty applicant fails to make a full disclosure ofall relevant facts we submit, with respect, that such applicationmust fail.  Venter's submissions are disappointing to say theleast.  His application for amnesty is limited to acts, omissionsor offences which he describes as abduction, malicious injuryto property, theft, other minor offences associated therewithand any other offences which may appear from his submissions orthe facts to which he has deposed.  He has added murder, but wewould submit, with respect,  that  it doesn't take the matterany further as the facts to which he has deposed does not discloseor make out any case of murder or even an association with murder.
 The application is lacking in material detail such as an absencein response to the question, at page 114 of Venter's submissions,in response to the question 10A "Mention political purposes",no response is noted.  It also fails even to identify the Pepco3 as victims and I refer in this regard to page 113 of Venter'ssubmissions, where the response to all the questions regardingwho the victims are, their names and addresses and other informationwhich would assist this Committee in identifying them, the answeris "onbekend" "unknown" "no informationto assist".
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 We would submit for this reason alone the application shouldfail for want of proper compliance with the requirements of theAct.
 It is the families' contention further that Venter's applicationfor indemnity is disingenuous as he does not even begin to acknowledgehis complicity in acts which amount to gross violations of humanrights.  In fact Venter has made every effort to disassociatehimself with the crux of the matter which is the death of thePepco 3 activists.  He denies that he had any part in the interrogationof the three or assaulting them or intimidating them.  He evengoes further and denies that they had suffered any injuries whichwere obvious to the eye.  He denies that he has knowledge of anyother acts committed in relation to them.  He has no knowledgeof the fate of the yellow bakkie which conveyed them to the airport. And he bears no personal knowledge of their eventual fate.
 Mr Chair one is at a loss to understand the purpose of his applicationfor indemnity.  Venter has not furnished this Committee with anyinformation in addition to the revelations made by the Vlakplaasoperatives outside of this Commission.  In fact he's not evenassociated himself with the allegations made by these operatives. He has only detracted therefrom. 
 It is inconceivable, given the public knowledge of the Vlakplaas,of the agenda during the period in question, that they would haveinvolved themselves in the affairs of the Eastern Cape in relationto the three for any purpose other than to permanently eliminatethem.  
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the atrocities and in all the circumstances we respectfully submitthat he has failed to take this Commission into its confidence,and he must therefore not be rewarded with amnesty in respectof any acts of violence committed against the Pepco 3 activists.
 Those are my submissions Mr Chairman.