CHAIRPERSON
I would like first of all, to express my appreciation as the Chairperson of the Commission to our regional office in Eastern Cape region.  They have arranged an event hearing that everybody will acknowledge has been an outstanding event.  We are very grateful for the leadership of Bongani Finca.  [I am talking and you are talking, I don't know what is happening.  Please.]  
 We are grateful for the leadership that Bongani is giving in this region and we express our appreciation as well to the committee members who work with him.  Then we want to say thank you to our staff, to thank our Regional Manager, [indistinct].  Thank you to the briefers [indistinct] for comforting people, strengthening them.  The statement takers, [indistinct].
 Even the secretaries that we do not see in these meetings.  We thank the caterers that fed us throughout this hearing and we want to say again thank you to you, our interpreters.  You do a super job of work and you are wonderful.  You don't complain.  Don't start doing so now.  And to you, technicians, thank you for helping our work to get on as well as it does.  
 Thank you to the police who provide the security for this venue.  We may also want to take things like that for granted but you never know, there are mad people who might want to come disrupt the proceedings and we thank the police for the work that they are doing and we are glad that they are being transformed.
 Thank you to the University of Fort Hare for providing us with the facilities and also thank you to the media for helping to publicise what happens in these hearings to a wider audience.  The SABC, radio and TV also, we express our appreciation.  Then we do want to say thank you to the witnesses who come to open up their hearts in public as they do. [Indistinct] from their families.  We have already said thank you to the churches for helping to organise the service that we had and for other support that they gave.
 I thank you all.  All those that are present here.  We have heard very painful things.  We know that we have been putting salt into your wounds but today we have heard people's wishes so that people come forward and tell the truth and not be evasive.  We thank the people that have spoken as clearly as possible.  I know that it is not easy.  I praise you dear people.  I praise the Lord who has given you the warmth and the reverence that you have for other people.  So that you, the very victims are able to withstand, to come here.  
 You are supposed to be people of bitterness, anger, but even so the whole nation is probably shocked that our people are given the gift of forgiving so that we can build a nation, a new nation.  So that we can show others that truly, the things that have happened to us, we do not want them to happen to other people.  We want to have a new nation, a new nation of love, of peace, people who work together well, hand in hand.  Bless us, God will bless you.  So that you are people who hold onto prayer, so that you are able to overcome this pain.
 We pray that God can transform us in our nation.  I want to ask the audience to clap.  I allow you, to clap for all these people.  I would like you to clap for yourselves because you are good people.  Thank you very, very much.  You are wonderful.