MR LYSTER
Thank you.  Mrs Simelane and your daughter,  /we thank
we thank you very much for coming in here today and telling your very sad story in front of this big crowd, in front of the televisions.  It is a very, very sad story.  You were a treasurer of the IFP in your area and, for reasons that you don't understand, your husband was taken from you.  He was killed.  You sat here like we did and you listened to the previous witness, who was Mrs Msweli, and you must have heard the pain and the suffering that she went through.  She was also treasurer of the IFP in her area.  However, she resigned and she joined the ANC.  But she, like you, was an ordinary person, a law abiding person, an upright, upstanding person, a strong woman and she suffered a terrible loss, the death of her son at the hands of the IFP and I think what's important about the fact that you are both sitting here under the same roof giving evidence together is that you can both come to understand the fact that violence - the violence that you have suffered, the violence that Mrs Msweli has suffered - brings us nothing except misery, brings us sadness and we hope that that mutual realisation from you from the IFP, from Mrs Msweli from the ANC can start bringing us together and bringing you as IFP and ANC together to a state where you were only ten years ago.  As I said earlier in my evidence, 10, 12 years ago people in this area were never killing each other.  They were living peacefully side by side and it's only in the last 10 or 12 years that this terrible violence has overtaken us and it's time that we started sitting down and talking to each other and not listening to those that are directing us from elsewhere.  Sitting down, talking to  each other and trying getting our lives back on track so that we can move forward together.  So again we thank you very much for coming in and telling us your story.  Thank you very much.