CHAIRPERSON
... the Amnesty Committee, arrangements will be made accordingly.  I think we should place on record that the reason for the adjournment, as I understand it and I certainly would not be considering it on any other basis, is not that the applicant is not available today or that his lawyer is not available today, it is that unfortunately, due to misunderstandings and due to the fact that the Xmas holidays intervened, sufficient notice was not given to the applicant of the date fixed for the hearing, that is of today's date, to expect him to have made adequate arrangements to be here himself and to have arranged representation.  It is in the light of that that we were prepared to consider the application for an adjournment.  I say this because I want to make it quite clear that it is not the intention of this Committee, to grant adjournments merely to suit the convenience of the applicant where he may have found something more lucrative to do on the day in question, or something of that nature, but we are satisfied on the information put before us, that in the present instance the applicant was placed in a position of some difficulty in making suitable arrangements and we are accordingly prepared to meet his convenience.
	I would also like to place on record the fact that we're extremely obliged to Mr Shaik for his co-operation in this regard, he has been here today ready to go on with the hearing and he has agreed to the matter being adjourned without opposition and we understand very much how much he wants to dispose of the matter, and we appreciate the attitude that he has adopted.
	In those circumstances we now adjourn the present hearing till the 3rd of April, at the same venue, that is at the Magistrate's Court, Pinetown, 10 o'clock in the morning.
	There are no other matters set down for hearing.  We will now take the adjournment.