CHAIRPERSON
We welcome all of you very warmly to this the second day of this special event hearing around the Bisho massacre.  As you all saw yesterday, we are going to have quite a few people who are going to come and give evidence and we want to welcome especially the former General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, the Reverend Dr Frank Chicane.  Please stand so that they can see you.  We reserve the better for the last, his successor as General Secretary, Ms Hlophe Baum You may also rise so that they can see how beautiful you are.  
 We would also like to welcome the Chief of the Magagabe Clan.  Where are you sir?  I would like to ask you to rise as well so that everyone can see.  I was saying, I mean that you saw yesterday, we will have witnesses ranging from victims and survivors of the massacre and people who may have played a particular role in it.  We are expecting that Brigadier Gqozo may in fact come.  What I want to say, which I have kept saying throughout all our hearings ever since we started in April, that it is not always easy to give a fair hearing to everyone especially to people who may hold views that are different from your own.  
 We are learning and we have, I think, been conducting ourselves very admirably and so when that time comes it is important that whoever is a witness must be given the space and the freedom to be able to articulate their point of view and I will not permit any one to be intimidated by the remarks or the reactions of the audience.  You have up to now, conducted yourselves well and it will be a very important test when the time comes because others who may be alleged perpetrators might not come forward if the treatment they think they will get is one that makes them uncomfortable, and so we appeal to all of you that for the sake of this promotion of national unity and reconciliation, we should seek to give every one a fair chance and without further ado I will hand over to Commissioner Bongani Finca but before I do that let me introduce the panel.  
 The extreme right Mcebisi Xundu who is a member of the Reparations and Rehabilitation Committee based in our office in East London.  Tiny Maya, member of the Human Rights Violations Committee based in our East London office.
 Denzil Potgieter, Commissioner, member of the Human Rights Violations Committee and based in our office in Cape Town.  Bongani Finca, Commissioner, member of the Human Rights Violations Committee and convenor of our regional office based in East London.  Mapule Ramashala, Commissioner, member of the Reparations and Rehabilitation committee based in Cape Town.  Dumisa Ntsebeza, Commissioner, member of the Human Rights Violations committee and head of our investigative unit.  June Crichton, member of the Human Rights Violations committee who has recently returned and we are very glad that that has happened.  She is based in our office in East London.  Ntsike Sandi, committee member of the Human Rights Violations committee based in our office in East London.  Bongani Finca?