CHAIRPERSON
I wish to explain and to apologise to members of the public here.  As you all know I was not the original presiding officer but came in a stage of emergency and I had hoped and understood that the matter would finish by midday today.  It has not done so.  I am due in Pretoria to preside over a pre-trial meeting where there are 59 applicants and I do not feel it possible at this late stage to cancel my participation in that meeting.  It would be I think unfair to the next applicant to get him to start his evidence now and then be subjected to cross-examination at some later stage.  I understand that there are matters set down for next week which most the present parties are engaged in and that they will perhaps take, from what they tell me, they will have to work hard to have completed it by next week and I do not wish in those circumstances to interfere with the programme for next week.  We have unfortunately got not only the last applicant to hear but two witnesses from the victims before we even approach the evidence that may become available as a result of information very recently made available.  A Pandora's box appears to be opening up, we were told witnesses indicating that the version put or evidence available to indicate, the version so far put is not true and correct version and further information was made available today indicating that there may be other witnesses who would have to be traced and interviewed and in those circumstances it seems to me that the only logical and sensible conclusion is to adjourn this matter to a date to be arranged on the strict understanding that if further information of the nature I have described becomes available it will be distributed through the Amnesty Committee to the interested parties so that they can properly prepare themselves to deal with it and that the matter thereafter be set down on a date to suit the convenience of all parties.  It will involve a great deal of co-operation between the lawyers concerned and between the Amnesty Committee itself to get - reconstitute the same panel but it's something that can be done and will have to be done.  It will however involve quite a long delay I fear and unless anyone has any strong views to the contrary of any representations they wish to make, I think the matter will have to accordingly be adjourned.