MR FALCONER
Mr Chairman, if I might have leave to place certain preliminary matters on record.  I'm instructed by Mrs Mbuyase that her son, Lucky Mbuyase who is mentioned at page 1 of the bundle of papers died in 1994.  Ben Mlambo was evidently killed last year and  Lakahipo Matenjua was killed in 1992.  As I say, I haven't received instructions on behalf of any of the other victims in this matter.
	Mr Chairman, for obvious reasons it's been rather difficult for me to obtain instructions, given the fact that the persons who were allegedly involved in the attack on Mr Ntuli's house on the 26th of August, all appear to be dead.  I am however instructed that when charges were preferred against them in respect of that attack, their defence was that at the time of the attack they were in the Matkambeni area at Umtumzini and on that basis denied any involvement in it.  I'm given to understand that charges were withdrawn against them, presumably on the basis of that alibi.