ADV BOSMAN
May I just put this proposition to you, Mr Hattingh, you can tender this document, Mr Hattingh, as a document being conclusive proof of what is contained in the document, and then there would have to be a trial within a trial.   If that is not your intention, you can tender the document as proof of the existence of the document.   Is this what you are driving at now, to tender the document as proof of the existence of the document?   Then perhaps you could cross-examine on those statements in the document which relate to the people that you represent, and certainly not in regard to other incidents.   If that be allowed, surely there would be no need for a trial within a trial.   If you have rebutting evidence in regard to the particular factual statement in the document and you have someone who is going to testify, either the victim or someone on behalf of the victim, surely it could be dealt with in that manner, without wasting any time with a trial within a trial?   That's a proposition I put to you.