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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation MR MHLABA: So is it your case, Mr Motlokoa, that in killing the deceased, Peacock Tsosane, you were furthering the interests of your political organisation and ensuring the smooth operation of the Self Defence Units? ... support to freedom fighters during 1989, seventy or eighty places were attacked with either explosives or petrol bombs. He took part in those operations and believed the Alexandra Health Clinic was one of the buildings that was expected to be targeted. The clinic was, however, not ... MR BERGER: It's correct, is it not, Mr Mthembu, that not one of the attackers was hurt during this operation, am I right? MR RAMMUSI: I actually delegated. If I had an operation, I had members of the units who are given different responsibilities. ... Anton Pretorius approached me on an unknown date with a request for three VZD1M detonators. He informed me that he needed these detonators for an operation which had already been approved by one of his commanders. I understood and accepted that these detonators would be used against the ... ... for collecting and keeping these firearms safely so that they are not used in other instances but they were only issued out when we went out on an ... MR CORNELIUS: Did you or any of the other members consume liquor before the operation was launched? MR J KOK: It was basically, as I said, it was an operation that came from de Kock. It had authorisation from the top. Dirk Coetzee was the target. The package must be prepared, there's already surveillance going on. I heard about this in the hallways, it was not official and that this package ... ... of the disadvantaged community to take this initiative in order to reach out to other people and say exactly how we feel about this whole operation. ... MR BOOYENS: And further that you as the Technical Division received orders, you were never in a position to consider the merits of an operation, is that correct? MR PLAATJIES: We were arming ourselves because for the operation SAP or security branch police and National Party, the white dominium oppressed us, harassed us, that's how we got involved because we were sick and tired ...[intervention] I have studied the relevant parts of Col Coetzee’s Amnesty Application in so far as it deals with the execution of the operation and I accord therewith, specifically with regard to the role that was filled by myself. MR LAMEY: Because nobody mentioned Mr Willemse's name here actually and if Mr Willemse on the basis that he went along with you to visit Mr Radebe, then Mr Willemse would have known about the actual operation. MR PIGOU: Did you not find it strange Father Mkhatswa that you were engaged in such an operation? I mean I personally find it very peculiar that to find out something what is essentially very simple and straightforward whether someone is being held against their will or whether they are being ... MR DU PLESSIS: And your viewpoints were also in this operation that you were under the overhead command of Col de Kock, is that correct? MR WESSELS: And you then, indeed, at the second opportunity comprised the operation or the organisation. MR MPSHE: Now further on in your evidence again you refer to Hani and you say Hani was trying to get rid of Nelson Mandela. I refer here to Operation Vula, you recall that? ... something had to be done. The decision to eliminate Mangane was then taken, with the further approval of the late Chris Hani to whom the Swaziland operation was directly ... The only specific offence referred to in her application relates to her being involved in the transfer of arms that were under the general control of Operation Vula to dead letter boxes, DLBs, in some of the areas which were worst hit by political violence including the Vaal Triangle and the ... MR NKUNA: It is not me who said he shall be attacked, but Soli suggested it because they were at Joe's house and they were there to see that that kind of an operation is being undertaken to attack an informer or a traitor. |
