NOMONDE CALATA
joined the other three because you belong together, as we all know. The 27th of June 1985 
is a day which will be indelibly printed in your minds and in your hearts and in the minds 
of many, many thousands and hundreds of thousands of people in South Africa.  Many 
people within this hall and many of us sitting at this table knew your husbands well. We 
had met them, we had worked with them and like you we heard with horror of the 
gruesome killing of those four, the Cradock Four.  One of the reasons why we started the 
hearings in the Eastern Cape, was because of the terrible oppression that has taken place in 
this part of South Africa, and we thought, instead of starting in one of the big cities, as so 
many other things are, it was right to start here.  And you know as well as I do and as the 
Commission knows, that everybody who comes to this Commission is as important as 
anyone else. Everyone who has suffered is a sufferer, you have come together and you 
will be answering questions about something that was very very painful for you.  We're 
hoping very much that you will find this experience helpful and healing and in the end 
will enable the Commission to be of some service to you as well.  Mr John Smith will lead 
the questions and I'm going to hand over to him now. Thank you so much for coming.