MR MARTINI
Mr Chairman, it's unfortunate Mr Bizos should incorrectly record what transpired.  However, Ms Coleridge had undertaken to give us minutes of that meeting by the 7th of March, which we have never got.  However, to correct the record, I take great exception to Mr Bizos's chosen recollection of memory at that meeting.  There's a letter dated 24th of February from my office, which forms part of the application
"The writer and our client are of the view that the Commission is acting irresponsibly, insensitively and partially in holding the amnesty hearings in such centre.   Given the present circumstances prevailing in Cape Town and the sensitivity of the hearings, our client believes that neither our client nor the writer's safety, can be guaranteed during the amnesty hearing at the Athlone Early Learning Centre."
There is no suggestion of race and it's once again unfortunate that Mr Bizos wants to make this a racial issue.  In the affidavits before the Court that can be tendered in evidence, there's not a tittle or suggestion that race had to do with anything.  On the contrary the Early Learning Centre is one of the buildings that forms the subject matter of the very amnesty application and the Judge made that clear during argument.  He also found it to be insensitive to hold it at that very hearing.  For Mr Bizos to suggest racism here on my part or even on the part of my client, is dealt with in the contempt it deserves.  It's not true and unfortunately, maybe Mr Bizos has another agenda in this transparency, to make such a statement which is not true.  Thank you Mr Chairman.