DJ MKHIZE
Yes, that is the truth.  As you mentioned all this for fora I have involved myself in them.  Since my sentencing I was given a chance to mitigate the sentence.  That is when I started to speak the truth as I knew it regarding the crimes that I was being sentenced for.
	Thereafter I went with the Investigation Task Unit headed by Col Dobson.  I walked with him for quite a long time so that these issues could be investigated and cleared.  They have a full report about all these incidents that I have mentioned in these proceedings.
	I also from August 4 last year I appeared before a hearing at the Durban Christian Centre before the Violation of Human Rights Committee of the TRC.  We requested to appear before this committee and explain all these issues with the intention of reconciliation as I am here before this forum today.
	Even at prison I am in a committee together with Romeo Mbambo.  We represent IFP prisoners in reconciliation with ANC prisoners.  If I can just mention this: there are a lot of people who are in prison who are responsible for such actions as similar to ours.  But organisations today are not interested in those people.  They are speaking about peace processes, but are not concerned about the foot soldiers who carried out these activities.  They are involved at the top level in reconciliation.  They speak about this in the media but they don't say anything about families of the victims and about the perpetrators themselves.
	We need counselling because this affects you mentally, psychologically.  Nobody has come forth to suggest how we can get this counselling, how the element of criminality can be rooted out; how we can become human again.  But instead they are speaking of peace packages that have nothing to do with us; the people who carried out these activities.  So there are a lot of prisoners who were involved in such activities.
	We have committed ourselves to affect reconciliation with ANC prisoners with whom we had been fighting in the community.  We are trying to affect reconciliation between the foot soldiers so that we are not left behind.
	Because if this happens, when we are released or if we are released and we are still people who perceive ourselves as enemies, therefore it is useless for politicians to reconcile whereas foot soldiers are still in a war situation.
	These foot soldiers all need counselling.  They also need traditional rights.  The foot soldiers should also be able to reconcile, so we have created this committee of reconciliation with the ANC.
	We have contacted Mr Hlengwam, an IFP leader and informed him of this procedure, of this process.  We plan to call the media so that we can make statements to the media.  And the ANC prisoners will do the same.
	The ANC has planned to call Mr Willison Ncono to inform him of this process.  He has been to the prison quite a few times to speak to ANC prisoners.  Mr Hlangwa also visited us in prison with regards to this process.  Mr Dingele, another IFP leader has also visited us twice regarding this process of reconciliation with ANC prisoners.
	Although we had not reached a situation where we could call youth leaders as well, because we intend calling the youth president of the IFP and one of the ANC to address IFP and ANC prisoners alike.  And we also want to send them to the youth of the two organisations to affect reconciliation and to affect an awareness campaign.  That is the kind of committee we are involved in at Westville Prison.