MR CLAASSEN
Mr Chair I stand to be corrected but I think it was the State v Safatsa where this issue was dealt with and in very much the same circumstances, and it is true that they were all convicted on the basis of a common purpose and as such the application was drawn through on that basis.  It obviously, I think on Mr Ndlovu's own account, it can't be reasoned past the point that he said he did not know who this man was, he was angry, he was confused, it was in this very vicious frame of mind that they attacked this person.