RUSSELL ALLY
That you had asked for compensation.  Originally you were told that when you first asked for compensation you were told that in terms of the Indemnity Act which the then Government passed, nobody would be liable for any compensation for any event which occurred between 1976.  So the police had covered themselves with an Indemnity Act.
 You then later wrote again and asked for 
compensation.  You then wrote again to the new Government, to Mr Sydney Mufamadi's office, the present Minister of Police.   You were told then that your demand for compensation had expired because of the date.  It was in 1976 and this was now in 1995 and it had expired.
 And there was then a discussion about an ex gratia payment.  And the way the ministry explained this, they said ex gratia payments, I think which they do only under exceptional circumstances, and that those payments have to come from the existing budgets of ministries, and therefore ministries only do that if the circumstances in their view, are very desperate.
 But then at the conclusion of the letter the 
Commission says that should your intention be to proceed with your claim, the courts could be approached for the necessary relief, so they suggested to you to go to the court.  
 Did you ever follow up on that?  Did you try to go to a legal aid or a legal resource centre.