MR MEYER
Chairperson I would like to thank the Commissioner again also for raising this issue, and I think, may I first of all say I think you have made an appeal to us, but not only to us, the three of us who are here, not only to our Party, I think you have made an appeal to the whole of South Africa, to all political parties but also civil society in general, the community out there, everybody in South Africa.  I don't think it's possible now, I would not do right to the issue you have raised if I try to respond now to that question.  I can say, yes, we are in various ways within the National Party attending to this question and related questions.  What I would like to suggest is that we have a responsibility to come back to the Commission on this very question.  We have already indicated to the Chairperson and the Deputy Chairperson of the Commission that we are preparing a further written submission to the Commission and I would like to suggest that this very issue should form part of that further submission to the Commission.  And that equally so others who can come up with proposals and suggestions as to how this issue should be dealt with should also do the same, for
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the sake of the Commission who has in the final instance to attend to this as far as its report is concerned.  But I think Madam Commissioner if I may say, you have raised with us an issue which is probably the most important one in the final instance of the work of the Commission, because if we can't find an answer to the very question that you have put, then the work of the Commission with all respect is not going to be in the long term worth anything. 
 May I say that I don't think it's only those that have suffered directly, but there are many, many South Africans, thousands of South Africans who have also indirectly suffered through apartheid, that we have to consider within the whole spectrum of what we want to do in the future.  So it's not only a question of the specific terms of reference of the Commission, namely how to address human rights violations of the nature that has been described in your terms of reference, but it is in the final instance us as politicians, as political parties, that have to give direction as to how we are going to rectify the wrongs that flowed from apartheid in a very general sense.