VICTOR SERRANO
Mr Chairman, Honourable table, I cannot understand why a bomb so powerful as it was described yesterday was placed in a restaurant which at that time in 1988 ...(indistinct), it was a little new South Africa of today.
	As I stated before I myself with my family we used now and again to go to Wimpy Bar to have a cold drink and so forth, and it was quite, I felt very good there because it's a very small place which incidentally I find very strange that police could meet there because we could almost hear the conversations in tables.  The tables were so close to each other that sometimes it was difficult to talk very loud.  
	Anyway, with a grandeur of people there of all races and even the waiters they're always so kind, always full of jokes.  In fact one of them is here today.  And now somebody, just for the sake perhaps of creating news to commemorate a specific day for a specific organisation, goes and places a bomb, a super limpet mine.  
	No, I'm sorry, that was done purely for sensation, maybe to show that yes, my unit is doing something.  Nothing can justify terrorism that kills and maims innocent people, particularly when the terrorists know very well what they're going to do.  I'll say even the motives presented by the applicants, I and my wife and my son, we feel that attack on Wimpy Bar was a senseless, coward, terrorist act which served no purpose at all, except to make news to commemorate a particular day of a particular party or organisation.  
	Jesus while he was crucified he said "Father forgive them because they don't know what they are doing".  Now you people, the applicants, they knew very well what they were going to do.  I have to be - all of us, we have to be very careful, if you allow me Mr Chairperson to mention this, you have to be very careful with Esmarie, my wife.  She never recovered.  My wife at any time can have a stroke and there is medical reports to confirm that.  
	My wife since that day, and because of the problems, the family, we're alone, we haven't got any other family in this country - incidentally I'm a South African citizen, thank you very much.  I became immediately a South African citizen because I was convinced that sooner or later something like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which I always believed could do, could find, could go into the matter, and thank you, they are here today.  
	My wife has very high blood pressure and ...(indistinct), you cannot control that, blood pressure, and she has to take medicines every day faithfully because according to our doctors, and this can be proved, my wife can never recover, her heart is bumping, bumping at a very high rate.  So I cannot forgive him, I cannot forgive the applicants.  I'll never forget it.  Of course it is impossible to loose such a lovely person as my daughter was.  She had no political affiliations, and this will live with us forever.  
	It could be by accident that she was in a cross-fire.  There was no cross-fire in Wimpy Bar, there was nothing there.  If I am ordered to plant a bomb for a particular, in a particular place to address a particular group of people or person, I make sure that people or person are there before I trigger the thing.  That was not done.  So you see Chairperson, Honourable table, I cannot forgive you.