MR DLAMINI
14B/16 I want to touch on another case of how the judiciary worked and that was, again the case of the late Mr Joseph Mdluli.  He was killed in detention.  Different from all other examples of murders in detention, here the person or persons allegedly close to him while in detention were charged and were tried in the Supreme Court, and one may ask, "Why did this unusual event take place?"  Well, what had happened was when this detainee - when he was killed, Mr Mdluli's body lay in a mortuary of an undertaker.  This undertaker, who was also a sympathetic person to the struggle, had seen his body and had seen the wounds on his body, took photographs and brought this to the attention of people, lawyers and others, to say that this is what had happened to this person.  Through the underground network these photographs reach London.  They were published in newspapers in London and had gained international attention.  In many ways that forced the Government of the day and maybe the authorities to show that, "Yes, we don't condone murders of political detainees, so we should charge someone", and that person -a senior security branch police officer, was charged with one or two other policemen who were his juniors.  Of course, the security policeman was not found guilty and the persons were acquitted and in a broad sense the finding was the detainee had injured himself and died while falling off a chair.  Now, we know many of our leaders today had escaped sentence of death as a result of maybe a change of heart by some judges, but many others were sentenced to death, but those leaders who escaped are very prominent in leading our country into a democratic future and one may well ask what role those who were