CHAIRPERSON
Mrs Mabaso, you've told us a terrible - in fact, a shocking story, but it is a story that we have heard so many times before in this province.  A woman alone in her house with her young children attacked, the house set on fire and the family shot and stabbed in their house.  It is difficult for us to understand the terrible brutality and cruelty of this.  One can only imagine how depraved you have to be, as a person, to strike a 4-year old child in the head with a panga, and we wonder if the party to which these people belong have ever condemned this terrible act and whether they still permit people to be members of their party and whether that party, the IFP, will give their co-operation to the police in ensuring that these people are brought to justice.  We have seen many people like yourself who - or we have taken many statements from people like yourself who have not been able to give evidence to us.  They have been too traumatised and too upset by this incident and we know that you have been traumatised, but we still feel that it was very courageous of you to come here today and to tell us your story, as you have done.  It's very important for us to hear that story, because it allows us to accurately draw the report which we have to give to the Government and to the State President, and your story will go into that report.  We thank you very, very much for coming today.
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