RUSSELL ALLY
Welcome Liz and thanks for coming.  In 1981 trade unions were black members were eventually allowed to be recognised under the Labour Relations Amendment Act.  Although they were given this legislative recognition between September of 1981 and 1982 there was an intensive period of repression against Trade Unions and trade unionists for alleged involvement in political activities.  A number of them were detained, especially under the Terrorism Act of 1967.  Neil Hudson Agget was a medical doctor in Johannesburg and secretary of the Transvaal Branch of the African Food and Canning Workers Union.  On the 27th of November 1981, he was detained under the General Law Amendment Act and the Terrorism Act.
 After a period in Pretoria Prison Neil Agget was taken to John Vorster Square on the 11th of December where he remained until his death in the early hours of the 5th of February 1981.  He was found hanging from the bars of a steel grill in his cell tied by a ...(indistinct) coil.  I'm going to ask you now Liz to relate these events to the Commission?