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We thank the Bishop of the Methodist Church, Bishop Dabula for his message that touched us.  It is a good way to start the day.  We have been eagerly been waiting for this day for quite a while.  It is a special day for the Commission.
 It will the first time when today we'll be looking at the battle that was here in Pondoland in 1960.
A lot of issues that were brought before the Commission clarified also battles that were fought by our people from the 1970's to the 1980's.  We are going to touch on areas where people arose and fought for their rights from 1960.  This is a battle that was fought here in Pondoland by the Boers fighting people who were not armed.  This is a story of gravity on our people.  
 We would like to thank all the people who made statements about this incident of horror.  Most of them will not come before the Commission but we have a lot of statements.  We have 200 statements about this calamity, the battle for freedom by the Mpondo people.