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Mrs Phahle, Mrs Malaza and Mrs Mtembu, I can't really add anything to what you have told us. I can't add any comfort, but I think I would like to think that the message that you have given us today, which has come through so clearly, and so eloquently from all three of you, talking ALEXANDRA HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
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about this incident, and about the effects on your children, I would like to think that that is a message that has come through not only to us and to all of us who are sitting here and who have been so privileged to hear it, that I would like to think it is also a message that is going out to those people whom you have named.  
 You have described very graphically the activities and the responses of those in authority, particularly those in authority in the Army, the SADF.  Recently in Cape Town there was a submission from the SADF, talking about their activities.  There was no understanding, no recognition in that statement of any of the realities that you have told us about today.  That is one area that we need responses from, that we need them to come forward to answer the charges that you have laid in such clear ways.  We need responses from the people who were the superiors at that time, in 1988, 1985. We need responses as well, you have named also very graphically. 
 You have named what happened the day afterwards, back here in Johannesburg.  What was done in the media, and how the media added to the triumphalism of that attack.  That also is something that needs to be responded to, that needs to be faced, that needs to be admitted to and for which there needs to be an apology or an explanation or both, from those quarters. 
 I would say thank you very much for that. Because what you have given us is a very graphic account which goes to the heart of everybody, and which is unanswerable in the way that you have put it.  For that I would like to thank all three of you very, very much.  Our condolences go to you for that experience.  
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 Just by way of tribute, I think, before we break for lunch, we are very pleased that a local choir from Alex has come in to sing one short song.  Linda Twhala will usher them in. So if people could please sit quietly while they sing for us.  Then we will break for lunch.
 Good people, please, good people please keep quiet and just remain quiet for a few minutes more, please, out of respect for the previous three witnesses.  Please remain quiet. It won't take long.
CHOIR FROM ALEXANDRA
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