MR SHANE
I submit Mr Chairman, from this he doesn't know, it got lost somewhere on the way.  Mr Chairman, if you look at your mandate, your function here I submit with respect, is clear, your function is the promotion of national unity and reconciliation, and Mr Chairman, I submit there is nothing to suggest that anything underhand has gone on here.
	The applicant as he says in his affidavit, became worried about this, when he didn't get a notice to attend the TRC hearings.  He never ever before, he never checked if he got an acknowledgement, he didn't know about the acknowledgements.  I submit that is not important Mr Chairman.
	The fact is this, as the affidavit of Sally Sealy suggests, this is not the only application form that has gone missing, it could be human error.  I submit it is no error on the part of the applicant, because he did make his application.  He cannot say what happened to his application form. 
	Then it is also backed up by the fact that under oath, you heard from his co-applicant, I think it was Mutshatsha, who testified under oath that the applicant, Mzwake Mbuli was also there that day with him, when they filled in their forms.
	Mr Chairman, I submit that your mandate says that you have to lean over backwards in favour of let's call him the applicant, although there are no papers before you, and I submit that on what you've got before you Mr Chairman, it is sufficient to allow the applicant to have an opportunity to satisfy you that he is entitled to apply for amnesty and get amnesty in terms of the Act.
	Mr Chairman, I submit there is nothing more that this applicant or the proposed applicant, because he is not really an applicant before you,  but I submit that it is quite clear from what you've got before you, that he was there.
	I also ask you Mr Commissioner, to take into account what probably on the 10th of May 1997, what was for all involved, a major chaotic day, stressful, hectic, it is a day when things could have gone wrong.  This could have possibly fallen in the car, anything could have happened to it, but this application form did not get to the TRC, that is what we know.