NORMAN ARENDSE
As you please Mr Chairman.  Mr  Chairman, members of the Committee, I just have a short prepared opening statement to make and thereafter I would like to call on each of the applicants to give evidence in support of their applications.
	I believe that copies of prepared statements on behalf of the applicants, have been made available to you.  They are unsigned.  They will stay substantially as they are, there will be some deviations here and there because, and the reason for that is, for the first time only today, this morning, I had an opportunity of meeting all three applicants together in the same room.