Special Hearings — Media Hearings — UNKNOWN

CHAIRPERSON: Thank you.  Maybe that's what saved you. 	You really exceeded the proper limits and maybe there were no proper limits, and maybe this is what Mao Tse Tung meant when he said that there are occasions when in order to correct an imbalance, it is permissible to exceed the proper limits.  I can testify that in the manner in which we are able to confirm virtually everything that you guys had been printing there, in that dark era, it was to the extent that it was exceeding the proper limits permissible for you to do so. 	I thank you very much.	We have now come to the end of these proceedings, but before you leave, because in my view, it has been such a successful media hearing, by all accounts, it would be proper and fitting for Hugh Lewin, who has put a great deal of work together with a number of people, who I will not mention, to say something about who has made these three days of testimony possible, and generally, to conclude this day's proceedings.  Hugh Lewin.

MR LEWIN: Thank you very much, Mr Chair.  I would just like to mention some people by name and mention some organisations by name, because without them this would not have been possible.  We began or I will end where we began, which was here, as Govan said at the beginning, it was highly appropriate that we should hold the hearings at the SABC. I am very grateful to them for making it available and making it possible for all the media - who are the second people who need to be mentioned - to actually carry on the work that is done here, for them to have things on hand. I would like to thank them, we would like to thank them very much.	Secondly, I think what has characterised this hearing particularly, is the huge number of submissions that we have actually had and which came in before. Submissions which were solicited and submissions which were not solicited.  There have been a vast number that have come in, and I think we need to thank all of those.  Clearly it is only a very small proportion of the people who have submitted, who finally get to make - to be witnesses to testify here. That doesn't mean that everything that has been submitted is not made part of the record and part of the final report.  	At the same time there are specific people that we would like to thank.  I don't know who to mention first. I mention FXI and Freedom of Expression, because that's where we began and particularly mention the people who worked for them and who produced a vast amount of information which has been very important for the background and actually for the testimony.  So we need to thank them and their donors, don't forget that.	I would also like to mention, particularly, the Forum of Black Journalists and particularly Abe Makue who has helped tremendously in getting this together.	I would also like to mention for our own part, Hendrick and Christo Boesak who did all the work on the - did a large amount of work on the SABC, came and spoke to everybody.  I would like to thank them very much and in doing that, also thank the FES for help that was given there.	I would like to thank particularly Clive Emden and Raymond Louw for all the advice and support that they have given, and the person who has actually done far more work than anybody is Laura Pollecutt who was dragged in. I would very much like to thank her.	Again, to thank the SABC, particularly this part of the SABC.  Henley Studios, is that correct? Henley, which we are told is separate from the SABC, but we actually know it is very much part of the SABC.	I would like to thank everyone who has been involved here in making this what it has been - and not to forget the caterers.	I would finally, before the final one, I would like to thank the TRC staff, who have actually helped and nobody has actually seen them. 	Finally, what has actually been, I think the warmest part of the lot, is to thank all the people who have actually found this place and sat through the hearings and come, whether - I can remember, it seems about three months ago, but on Monday morning, there were a number of people coming and glowering and saying this is an impossible place to find. Well, it might have been impossible, but a large number of people did find it, and thanks to the dirty little black box in the corner and the people who write and who have produced the radio programmes and will produce more radio programmes, we have gone out wider.  Thank you, Mr Chairman.

CHAIRPERSON: Thank you and this is the end of the day, and "mooi loop" and drive carefully.
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