CHAIRPERSON
We thank the three of you for your testimonies.  It is a painful testimony especially to you, Mrs Bakauli.  What happened to you Mr Mentoor and Mr Bambiso is also painful, but what happened to women is not what is supposed to happen.  A woman at your age taken out of your
house, being naked or wearing only an underwear, taken to prison and staying there with policemen for a long time.  This shows that people were not human, they were animals.  Mrs Bakauli is not a young lady.  We have her picture, her dignity was effected.  These people would not come to you and apologise, but on behalf of them, as a Commission, we would like to apologise to you.  We feel ashamed that we are part of people in South Africa and there are people, these are people, these are South African people who did this to you.  We are not saying that these things have to be done to men, but we are extra sensitive to women.  We thank the three of you and we thank the evidence from Bedford.  We will adjourn for lunch for one hour.