CHAIRPERSON
My Afrikaans is not that fluent but I would like to say this in your mother tongue.  The people of this country are incredible and the testimony that you have just given is something which people really admire.  ... our hats off to you and we would really like to express our appreciation and thanks to God that he created people like yourself, and that the reason why we still have this hope that reconciliation will triumph in the end is because there are people like yourself.
 We would like to say how much we appreciate what you have done, and I really hope that all the people in this country, and you've referred in your statement to this fact 
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that we must forget about skin colour and that we must not apply reverse racism in the new South Africa.  I do hope that our people will heed your appeal.  
 On behalf of all of us here and also on behalf of the whole nation I can say there has been so much pain and suffering in this country, on behalf of all of us, I would just like to say thank you very, very much for what you have said here today and for what you have suffered and experienced with your family at a time when nobody would have wanted to believe that such a thing was possible.
 Thank you very, very much.