BONGANI FINCA
Thank you very much to all of you.  You are the last people who are giving us evidence in this hearing of the Bisho Massacre.  We are closing up now.
 Thank you very much for your patience.  I am sure that your patience today and yesterday and the things that you tolerated perhaps if I were in your place I would not have been able to tolerate all these things.  You underwent a lot of pain in these past two days.  Thank you very much.
 I would like to say that the Commission has endeavoured after the first hearing at Bisho to liaise with the attorneys that are handling these claims.  We hope that the people who have not been successful with their claims would be helped now that we have liaised with the attorneys.  Those people who did not put forward claims I think that as a Commission we will take that up as well.
 I want to say to all of you, and all those who gave evidence here in these past two days, and those who gave evidence in the first hearing at Bisho, even though there is nothing much we can do, because we put forward your requests to the President, even though as a Commission there is nothing much we can do, at the end of the day we would like to say as a Commission that our respect for you and also to say as a Commission that you will always be the brave 
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people of this area.  You are the heroes.  People who died in Bisho in 1992 caused that the Codesa would start again.
 Thank you very much.  We salute you. 
 This is the end of the hearing of the Bisho Massacre.  I do not want to delay you.  I would like to thank the Mayor and also the Council members.  First of all I would like to thank the Mayor for attending the proceedings and also the deputy mayor.  We thank you very much for having granted us this facility.  We thank the South African Police for the security that they have provided for this hearing, especially today when things became very tense. 
 I would like to thank the technicians, the interpreters, the media persons.  I would like to thank our own staff members and members of the panel.  
 I thank all of you that have been left behind.  Thank you for your patience during the second hearing here in Bisho.  I now close the hearing.