COMMISSIONER
Mrs Sithole ... (inaudible) ... for coming in here today, and we also welcome you, Mr Sithole.  You have given us a very, very vivid, clear picture of what life was like for you in Inanda in the 1980s.  It is ridiculous that people should have to have lived like that, sleeping in the bush at night, fearing the knock on the door at night.  Not from the police or from the army, but from your own neighbours, and it's evidence of very, very deep political intolerance.
From what you have told us you were very, very lucky not to have been killed that night.  I am sure it was the intention of that person to kill you, and you could so easily have died.  You've heard evidence from many other people today who were killed late at night by people attacking their houses, and you are one of the lucky few.  The fact that you didn't die doesn't mean that you haven't suffered substantial trauma, and we've see what affect it's had on you, and of course on your daughters.   We've heard so many stories like that, of women being attacked at night by armed men.  And whenever this sort of violence  /affects one
affects one it's terrible and it's unacceptable, but there
just seems to be something so much worse about somebody in a vulnerable position at night, in their nightdress, being attacked by men with guns.  It really is difficult for us to believe that these things happen so often.
You have told us - you have told Dr Mgojo what you would like the Commission to try and do for you, and as he has said we don't have the power to do that directly, to facilitate that, but we will make recommendations to the Government as to how we think you should be assisted.  So we want to thank you all very much for coming in, and we are glad that you were able to be here together to support each other.  Thank you very much.