MR SHEMBE
That him and the deceased to end up being, the other one being the victim, the other one being the killer to have murdered Mr Makanja.  Other than that they grew up together as during the adjournment the father has stated that he took both of them, his son the deceased together with the Applicant as his own sons or as his own children so it is clear before this Honourable Commission that there was nothing personal between the Applicant and the deceased, only the political difference which would have been addressed, had according to the words of the Applicant, been given the guidance from their leadership including the Chairman as he has specifically said that there was a person who was the Chairman from whom they were expecting to get the guidance as to what is the way for what, only to find that they only took their independent decisions around the street corners whereby each member of the political organisation took his own initiative without having been directed by any member of his or any senior of his political organisation to say go and kill so and so.
	More than that the Honourable Commissioners, the vengeance that was there in the Applicant was aggravated by the attack that had happened to his homestead the previous two days before that.  That was a blanket activity which did not specifically target any individual person but directed against the members of the UDF.  
	The acquisition of the firearms that the Applicant had, he had explained to them how he acquired them, that he bought them from a certain person and he mentioned his name for the sole purpose that because they are being attacked he cannot on his own sit idle and look his home being gutted down.  On his own accord he went to acquire the firearm illegally for the sole purpose of defending his homestead.