CHAIRPERSON
Thank you very much for giving evidence to this Commission.
 The Commission has a responsibility to investigate everything brought forward so that it can get a clearer picture of what happened.
 Maybe you will meet with the people from our office who will come back to investigate more and to find out more
about what happened, but for now we would like to thank you for giving evidence in this Commission and for your requests.
 It is our duty to forward these to the President.  Even the one mentioned about the 25th and I - my brother here next to me, he will be the one responsible for that invitation because he is the one who likes to visit this place around Lusikisiki and Bizana.
 We thank you for your requests concerning the Technical College.  As you are the last group to give evidence, I would like to thank you for tolerating us and I would like to thank the Government, Provincial Governments, especially the Department of Public Works that we worked in.
 We thank the Police who helped us a great deal in keeping order and as we had a problem with the generator, they endeavoured to help us, we thank the Police.
 We thank the authorities in the Police Force.  We thank our interpreters who interpreted Xhoza, English, Sotho, thank you.
 We thank the technicians, Mr Brummer, the Deputy Manager with the patience they displayed for the difficult three days, they tolerated us.  We hope to see the Deputy again in the next year.
 The visitor from Canada who stayed with us throughout these three days and has very consistently attended all our sessions.  I don't know whether she is going to stay here long, but if she has to leave back for her home in Canada, we wish to thank her for attending our hearings and wish her bon voyage to Canada.
 Lastly I wish to thank our staff, Mr Ngubo who is acting in this hearing as the person in charge and all the
other members of staff for the patience they have displayed in a very different hearing.
 Of all the hearings that we have had, the hearing of Lusikisiki has been unique, very different from the others.
 We were faced with different problems, which we have never anticipated.  I don't think we should be discouraged by those problems, indeed I am delighted that we met them because they actually bring us close to realising how rural life impacts on people.
 We have been having hearings in the cities, even the Cradock which we called a rural hearing was in a city, it is the first time that we have come into close contact with the living conditions of the majority of our people.
 And indeed over the last three days, from the breakdown in electricity to the breakdown of the generator, to the rain, to all the inconvenience, it has been an unique experience which places us where we belong, to the feelings of the people of this country.
 We wish to thank in particular the statement takers, (indistinct) region, they have done outstanding work.  Qasi Nofomane in these three days, he experienced, they have had to endure that experience for a very long time and indeed they have gathered very interesting cases for us which we have listened to.
 Every hearing here in Lusikisiki has been an unique hearing and indeed in my judgement one of the best experiences that we can have which puts us into touch with the rural struggles.
 People who worked in remote areas, who had little support, little resources, how much they contributed to the struggle for liberation.  We pay tribute to the Pondo people
for enduring the hard work we have gone through.  
 Indeed they are one of the best things a person can have.  I declare the hearing of Lusikisiki now closed.