MR CLAASSEN COMMITTEE
Thank you Mr Chairman.  Mr Chairman maybe I would just like to start just once again indicating that in the matter today before this Committee I appear on behalf of Mr Norman Mandlake Mbatha.  Mr Chairman, this application, as the Committee would note from the bundle supplied by the Evidence Leader, I was informed, we had a pre-application discussions the 15th of February this year in the Carlton Centre in Johannesburg with Ms Lockhat during which discussions it came to my attention for the first time that there might be a problem concerning Mr Mbatha's application, specifically with reference to the fact that TRC might functus officio in this matter, seeing that it appears that he has submitted two very different applications, or application Form Ones, and on the basis of that he was already turned down by the TRC.  	Mr Chairman if I might just be afforded the opportunity, if I might refer the Committee to those applications, specifically it would be noted, if I may, on page 13 of the bundle, the application dated the 27th of September 1996 ...(intervention)