RUSSELL ALLY
The Truth Commission has attempted to find out what has happened, but unfortunately at this stage it seems as if the lot - most of the documents have actually been destroyed, the Knysna police station, the case docket is not  available and there are not hospital records that are available either.
 At the moment the Commission is trying to get hold of an inquest record.  But according to a report on incidents in that area around about the time that your son was killed, on Security Police officer, his account of what happened was that on this particular day, the 15th of March at about twenty past eight in the evening, that vehicles were being stoned in the area.  At that stage no-one was shot or arrested - the police then were sent into the area and a foot patrol was stoned and that was apparently when the police opened fired.
 One person was shot dead, your son Goodman and seven were wounded and according to the police their claim was that this was in self defence.  But as I said the Commission is still trying to  get hold of the inquest record to see what else there is about this particular incident.
 But I think it again demonstrates some off the madness that was taking place where not only did you have to suffer the knowledge of your son's death, but after that you battled for almost two months before you could give your son a proper burial and even then there were restrictions on what you could do and what you couldn't do.  So I think that - the Commission does empathise and feel with you the difficulties which you must have experienced.
 Now according to one of the lawyers who actually said that his account that he has of what happened was that the police actually ambushed the youth after there had probably been these incidents that they  were hiding behind the road.  And that seven other people were shot at the time your son was shot, but unfortunately he was the one who  was killed.
 I don't know if there are any other questions from any of the other Commissioners.
MS XOKISO;
I for  one, I don't have a question at the moment.