Cape Town: The following is the text of Hansie Cronje's confession, which was received by the Justice Edwin King Commission on Thursday.
I have been a Christian since childhood days when I grew up in the house of two wonderful people, Ewie and San-Marie Cronje.
I was reborn after the tragic death of a four-year-old girl on the north coast road to Stanger. I tried to live a Christian life and walk the way the Lord wanted me to walk.
I would like to apologise to all my family members who stood right behind me through this, especially my bertha and all the other Christians who prayed for me," Cronje said in the confession.
It has been a tough weekend but also a great weekend for me in that I now have the opportunity to face myself in the mirror again for the first time since the (1999/ 2000) Indian tour.
On my way to the nets (before the first One-day international against Zimbabwe in January), I was stopped by Hamid (Cassim), a bloke who has been hanging around the team for a few years now, always handing out biltong (dried meat) to the guys in return for some tickets.
He told me that if only he knew I was going to declare (in the fifth Test against England at Centurion Park), he could have made himself some good money and my reply was, why don't you ask?
Since that day, in a moment of stupidity and weakness, I allowed Satan and the world to dictate terms to me, rather than the Lord. Hamid called me almost four times a day from then on.
He later introduced me to a friend called Sanjay during the One-day international series with England and Zimbabwe. Together, they told me that I could also make some cash if we could may be cook a match. I told them that I was not prepared to do this unless we were assured of a place in the final.
Of course, we only narrowly got through to the final and the opportunity never came. I had in my possession at that stage $ 10,000 to 15,000 that Sanjay gave me just in case I had a change of mind.
I told him that may be (in) the first One-day international in India I could see what could be done. My idea was never to involve other players.
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