CHAPTER 3
REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES AND MODI OPERANDI
3.1. The Commission met for the first time at 9.30 a.m. on the 28th April, 1969, in
General Piet Joubert Building, 218 Visagie Street, Pretoria, under the Chairmanship of the duly
appointed Chairman of the Commission, the Honourable G.P.C. Kotzé, B.Com. (Rand), LL.B. (Rand),
judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa (Eastern Cape Division). All the other members were
present, namely -
Mr. P.E. Rosman, B.A. (S.A.);
The Reverend G.J. Davidtsz, B.A. (U.P.), B.D. (U.P.), LL.B. (S.A.);
Professor G.A. Elliott, M.B., Ch.B. (C.T.), M.D. (C.T.), M.R.C.P. (London),
F.R.C.P. (London);
Mrs. A.M.G. Maytom, S.S. St.J.;
Dr. (Mrs.) L. v. Z. Pretorius, M.A. (Stel.) Ph.D. (London);
Professor H.L. Swanepoel, B.A. (Stel.) LL.B. (Stel.), LL.D. (Stel.);
Professor I.J.J. van Rooyen, M.A. (S.A.), D.Phil. (S.A.);
3.2. The Chairman stated that as all members had received copies of the terms of
reference of the Commission as published in Government Gazette No. 2351 of the 11th April,
1969, and copies of Proclamation No. 85, 1969, by the State President, the Commission was
declared a properly constituted functioning body.
3.3. At the first meeting of the Commission it was decided that viva voce evidence be
heard at the main centres of the Republic and, if need be also in the territory of South West
Africa, but after consultation with the Administration of that territory, the Commission
resolved not to hear evidence there.
3.4. Representations from the firm of Attorneys, Messrs. Sloot, Broido, Hesselson and
Liknaitzky, Johannesburg, on behalf of the Church of Scientology in South Africa (Pty.) Ltd.,
and also from that organization itself concerning the Enquiry were considered and at the
second meeting of the Commission held at Pretoria on the nineteenth day of May, 1969, Mr.
T.H. van Reenen, S.C. and Mr. M.J. Mentz, instructed by Messrs. Sloot, Broido, Hesselson and
Liknaitzky, Johannesburg, appeared on behalf of the Church of Scientology in South Africa
(Pty.) Ltd. At the opening of the third meeting of the Commission held at Durban on the twenty-
seventh day of May, 1969, Mr. Mentz announced that henceforth he alone, instructed as afore-
said, would appear on behalf of the said Church of Scientology in South Africa (Pty.) Ltd.
With the exception of the thirteenth day of October, 1969, on which date Mr. V.T. Pienaar, of
the firm of Attorneys of Messrs. Sloot, Broido, Hesselson and Liknaitzky, Johannesburg,
appeared on behalf of the Church of Scientology in South Africa (Pty.) Ltd., the valued
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