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I have to concede that this was a gruesome and horrible killing of a human being, but I submit that all of that was taken into account in the High Court as well as in the Appeal Court, when Goldstone J, confirmed the death sentence in this matter.  However, without trying to get away from the gruesomeness of the offence, one has to take into account the fact that the applicant and his witnesses stated throughout the hearing, they in fact believed that the deceased in this matter was supplying arms to members of the IFP, that there were problems with the IFP at the time and that the second witness actually lost his mother as a result of the violence of the IFP and I submit that there is nothing basically to contradict what
they say in that regard, that this offence was basically politically motivated, arising from those issues.  I know that there could be other criticisms directed at them with regard to detail of exactly what happened and so on, but I would ask you to take into account that this offence actually took place 9 years ago and one would expect to find that sort of discrepancy.  In those circumstances, I would submit, or my instructions are to submit that the application should in fact be granted.