WILSON J
As the applicant and his legal advisers are aware I was the Judge who tried him and convicted him, and am now sitting as a member of the Committee to consider amnesty.  I don't know if there are any other interested parties who are now aware of the fact that that is the position.  In my view the issue to be decided now has no relationship to the question of the applicant's guilt or not.  That is a separate issue, and I have not felt it necessary to recuse myself, but I am quite prepared to hear what anyone may have to say on that issue, and I would invite you, Mr du Toit, to make known the applicant's attitude.