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MR LAMEY: Chris Mosiane, was he a reasonably fresh, new askari?

MR DE KOCK: The Security Branch of Springs by means of sources which they had in the area, activated or identified some of these activists and the askari, Joe Mamasela, then infiltrated some of these activists and collected this group for an even or equal action.

MR VAN DER MERWE: My instructions are that he entered the room every now and then to find out whether or not there was any information with regard to terrorists with whom his askari members may have been involved, is that correct?

MR KOOPEDI: Any my instructions were that I should put it to you that the only reason why you would alleged that you belonged with the two in a unit and also implicate them, is the fact that you are a known askari and you have an agenda against the ANC.

... dealt over pages in his application with the steps taken since August 1989 to ascertain whether and to what extent the three policemen and the askari made contact with the ANC and whether confidential information was transferred to them. This was done even before the involvement of two of ...

MR MOHLABA: Do you know of an askari with a pseudonym Stanford, or did you ever hear of him?

... time we went across and we killed Brian Ncqulunga. In that same time we go down to Port Elizabeth and we blow up three Security Policemen and an askari. In that time General Basie Smit came to me and asked me to send some people down to Cape Town, which led to the fact that an explosion, or ...

MR LAMEY: Can you just shortly state at the time of, when you became involved with Japie Maponya in Krugersdorp, how long were you an askari?

The Applicant later discovered that the identity of that askari was Johannes Mabotha. The Applicant applies for amnesty even though he did not participate in any of the offences committed against the late Mabotha on the basis that he associated himself with the killing of the late Mabotha and his ...

MR DU PLESSIS: You have heard of Operation Askari, haven't you?

MR MAMASELA: That is true, life was hell for a black man, especially an Askari. Our lives were worthless there. We were beaten, we were killed. It's history, it speak for itself. More than 10 Askaris were killed there so how can I say it was heaven.

be an act associated with a political objective. The evidence before this Committee is that Mabotha could legally have been accepted and used as an askari again after he had returned back from the ANC. The Committee was told that it could have been a great risk to accept him to be an askari ...

or somewhere, and he was going to be lured away from his home, under the pretext that the police or Security Branch was going to arrest him, and the askari or askaris who approached him, were there to take him out of the country for further ...

MR MAMASELA: It started in Pretoria whilst I was serving as an askari at Vlakplaas Security Police. We were called aside, myself, Koole and Piet Mogoai by Col Venter who told us that we had a special operation to perform in Port Elizabeth. He elaborated that they were activists who were busy ...

Yes but now there is a story now that there were Askari’s there were people who infiltrated - what race were these Askari’s?

MR HATTINGH: You heard Mr de Kock testifying that as far as he was concerned it wasn't an askari who had to be brought to Vlakplaas for re-orientating purposes as Brig Schoon put it.

MR LAMEY: Did you know the particular askari?

MR KNIGHT: So at that time before you got to Vlakplaas he was an askari working with Vlakplaas?

MR CORNELIUS: Can I just interrupt? Just for the sake of the Church, an askari, where are they employed?

MR VERMEULEN: It all depends on what type of operation - they could have been issued with anything. But Aubrey wasn't an askari, he was a member of the Force.