MR BRINK
Before commencing, I may just say, Mr Chairman, I am informed that the attorney for Mrs Jama is now present.
	Mr Chairman, the problem I have with these applications is that accepting that there was what one has heard in previous enquiries, a "sub culture" in the police, a sub culture of violence and very strong anti-ANC beliefs and so on, accepting that, the problem with these applicants is, I think, to a large extent the fact that in February 1990 the African National Congress, amongst other formerly illegal organisations, was unbanned.  And, indeed, on the day in question the applicants had been to some sort of gathering where there were approximately 2000 members of the ANC which they were monitoring and/or protecting or guarding.  And you will recollect further that one of the members of the ANC at that particular gathering requested Constable Harrington to ask him special constables to refrain from toyi-toying in case it led to I imagine difficulties.  And notwithstanding his avowed contempts and hatred for the ANC, he complied willingly in a spirit of great cooperation.  I find that strange. 
	Then later on these 10 or 15 young men are accosted.
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I believe that they would all have been searched, because the purpose of the police was to check on whether they had things, as came out in the evidence, firearms, dagga and the like.  And then this notebook or diary or whatever it is, is discovered. 
	It doesn't matter from whom it came.  The point is that on the evidence, and if you accept the evidence, there was this document which was extremely important to the applicants, more particularly to Mr Harrington and Mr Erasmus, because had they kept that document, and after the death of Mr Jama, they could have taken that document to their superiors and said this is what we've done and although maybe we shouldn't have done it, we did it because we discovered this vital information.  That would have helped them.  But to throw this document away, this pocketbook or whatever it is away, seems to me to be something which certainly can't advance their case.  Had they kept it and had they not killed Jama, but they did kill him so it doesn't matter, but the point is they would obviously have done better by taking him to the police station and arresting him.
	And then it is very odd, when you consider that at the bottle store, without discussing the matter between themselves - and I now refer to the first and second applicants - they have exactly or almost exactly the same thought.  They both have this so-called inner explosion, they both suddenly are reminded of the murder of Major Terblanche, they both refer to a member of the ANC, an avowed communist sitting amongst them, they both refer to atrocities of the past, and this is very extraordinary to say the least, they then have this feeling without having 
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discussed it. 
	I think the problems the applicants face are those and I myself am not persuaded that a political objective has been shown.  There may well have been some sort of political motive, but I am not that that covers what is required in terms of the Act.  And unless there are any questions, those are my submissions.