MR LAX
Now I want you to look - you don't have it in front of you, so I'll read it for you.  Just bear with me one moment.  I want you to look at, or I'll read you page 39(a).  This is a translation of what appears in your application form at page 50.  You say you want to explain the background of what happened and you say that Msome announced a meeting, you say that
"On the Saturday afternoon before the meeting we were informed by the woman that on the way from that meeting ANC supporters would be attacked, because their presence was no longer welcome in the chief's area.  The only people allowed to remain in the area were IFP supporters."
Now this is the important part, the next paragraph.  You say:
"We then held a meeting as ANC supporters, to discuss what we were going to do.  We knew that if all of us did not attend, they were going to kill us because we were a minority in the area.  A decision was taken that some will attend the meeting at the chief's kraal, so that we know what was discussed.  Others would remain behind.  The reason we did this was because we thought if everyone went to the meeting and there were disagreements during the course of the meeting, it would lead to violence and the death of many people."
Now when you gave your evidence you gave us the impression that it was purely by chance that you ended up at the meeting, you denied that you went back to report to anybody about what happened at the meeting.  You were specifically asked about a portion of this document, that says you rushed back to report to the others what was going on, and you emphatically denied that you had done that.  Do you understand my difficultly?  My difficulty  - and I'll be absolutely focused for you, is that on the one hand you say here that it was very planned that you were chosen to go to this meeting to find out what was happening and report back.  On the other hand, in your evidence before us, you have denied that that was the case.  Please explain this to us.