COLSON TEBOGO BEEA
I wish that incident had not happened.  I grew up like my colleagues have said, in the ANC and one of the fundamental issues and/or things that the ANC taught us is to respect life.  It's regrettable that the 28th of March ended the way it did, people lost life, life was lost and I do regret that, that it happened.  I regret and I feel bad, extremely bad not only for the people who died at the corner of King George and Shell House, there are other people who were killed on that morning.  I do believe that there are widows and widowers and their children without fathers and mothers today because of the happenings of the morning preceding the incident at Shell House and it pains me that - and I'm not pointing a finger at anybody but I'm just trying to say that it pains me that nobody but nobody has ever mentioned that.
	It appears therefore to me that those that have lost their lives in the morning before the actual incident are insignificant, but I believe they are not.  It is in that context that I say it, loss of life is regrettable and it will always be regrettable because it was not supposed to have happened.  So this is how I felt, this is how I fell, this is unfortunately how I'm going to feel until the day that I die, I wish it did not happen.