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If you have any questions, please, from the media. Hi, Mr. Ndlala. I'm Oluthando from IOL. Your pledge might be seen to some as you throwing money at a problem, and these are serious allegations that are leveled, and you're using that exact same cause that you are now being accused of to throw money and donate to it. Can you explain the reasoning behind the pledge? So just to come in there before I answer to that particular question, just to highlight something here. I'm currently accused of extortion, as it stands now. So that's in contradiction to that. Okay. That it's extortion that I'm trying to extort an amount of, I don't know, R200,000 or R5,000. On the audios, there's someone speaking about R5,000, R10,000 rent, and all these type of amounts. They talk about sending those monies through e-wallets and all of that. So it's a direct contradiction to that. So we're not using money to... It's a matter where... As I said, when I was incarcerated, I met a very brilliant young chap in the holding cells who did not have any legal funding in terms of his appearance on the day. And fortunately, Razina was in court on the day. I then further extended myself. I said, look, I will take care of that particular financial need that this particular individual requested. So that brought a very... great amount of reflection from me in terms of how many more people are affected that have wrongly been persecuted or that continue being persecuted as they happen to be marginalised and in terms of them not having access to funding and in dealing with these particular matters. So that was a reflection for me. I then realized that there wasn't enough that I happened to have been doing myself for our community and for our, what you call this, for our people in terms of offering support in different forms. So the issue of GBV in this particular case is a very touchy subject to me. The reason why I find myself here, one of the magistrates that I approached at the Randburg said to me, which was, there's no good deed that goes unpunished. And it brought a lot of thoughts in terms of where I found myself in this situation. It was someone... I was someone who had the aim of assisting a victim, so to think of, at the time. And I then found myself... I now being the victim myself in terms of where we find ourselves and what has since unfolded in this matter. So going back to your question, to answer to your question, it is not a form of buying our way into anything. It is rather to extend assistance to people in need, people that just get arrested for unjust reasons or for ulterior motives, one. Secondly, the issue of GBV, it's a very sensitive subject that our president as well has come in a number of platforms. Our calls are being enhanced to ensure that, you that they do more in terms of curbing the sketch of gender-based violence. So it can only mean so much to us for us to also be part of the contributional hand towards this particular sketch. Yeah, okay.