NORMAN ARENDSE
Thank you Mr Chairman.  Mr Gqomfa, can I just read back to you.  I am an applicant in this matter, having submitted an application for amnesty on the 20th of March 1997, while I was being held at the Grootvlei Maximum Prison in Bloemfontein.
	The facts to which I depose are true and correct and within my personal knowledge, unless the context indicates otherwise.  I was born in Port Elizabeth and grew up in the Eastern Cape.  I am 31 years old, unmarried and I am the father of a little girl aged between three and four years.
	I passed standard 9 at school, but I never managed to complete matric.  I joined the PAC through AZANYO in 1983 and I joined APLA while I was in exile in Botswana in and during 1986.
	I joined APLA because it was a liberation army and I was determined to play a role in the liberation of the oppressed black majority in our country.  I did my military training in Tanzania, Uganda and Egypt and this training included training on how to use arms and ammunition.
	I returned to South Africa in 1991 to Umtata in the Transkei.  Here I became involved in building the political structures of APLA and more particularly I was assigned to recruit people to join APLA.  There were no ranks within APLA, but I regarded myself as a junior member of APLA.
	Although APLA had a high command and some form or hierarchical structure, units were only formed once it was decided to carry out operations.  The first operation I became involved in, was in 1992.  I was involved in four operations and I have applied for amnesty in respect of all four these operations.
	In respect of the first two operations, I got instructions from Letlapa Maphalela and in respect of the other two, I got my instructions from one Nsebe.  The targets for these operations were also identified by Letlapa and by Nsebe respectively.
	They were also responsible for supplying the arms and ammunitions.  After Sichumiso Nonxuba, a senior APLA Commander, now deceased, conducted a refresher course for APLA operatives in and during October 1993 at Tsolo in the Transkei, he instructed Mabala, who is one of the applicants in this matter, Maxebo ... (intervention)