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As you will recall, Mr Chairman, on the 6th February, we approached, on behalf of the victims, 
the Committee to subpoena a group of witnesses in regard to the whole question of the line of command, 
the issue of trivets and cooperation between the SAP and the SADF, time is becoming important because 
of the fact that if they, depending on your eventual ruling, if they are to be subpoenaed they need to be 
given sufficient notice, and I just would, because I have instructions from the victims who are affected, to 
raise with you now in the forum, the written application which we filed with the further motivation earlier 
this week in regard to Brig. Victor, Brig. Schoon, Col. Louw, Gen. Buchner, Gen. Beukes, the former 
Minister of Law and Order - Adriaan Vlok, the former Minister of Defence - Magnus Malan and the 
former State President - P W Botha, to hear whether you have had an opportunity to consider the matter 
and what your position is in regard to calling these witnesses. As I indicated and particularly with regard to 
the Zero handgrenade case, where we in fact heard from General van der Merwe, who at the time was head 
of the Security Police that he had taken up the matter with the then Commissioner Johan Coetzee, who in 
turn had discussed the issue with the then Minister of Law and Order - Louis LeGrange - and he believed 
that that had then been discussed with P W Botha. Now our clients are obviously keen to hear about that 
chain of command and it is for that purpose, inter alia that we made the application and we would just like 
you to give us an indication as to your views on the application.