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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation During the night of 25/26 September 1986 Charles Sebe was freed from the Middledrift Prison in an operation conducted by a special unit. He was then taken to safe sanctity in Transkei. An elaborate scheme was then devised which was put into operation to abduct Zandile Ndwandwe from Swaziland which involved two informers have made contact with her. We don't know what their pretence was, why they wanted to meet her, but in terms of a note which we received, which is an Exhibit ... ... that about 76 heavily armed PAC cadres had come through that point. These cadres had also been "lost" and were at large in South Africa. The operation was to be carried out in such a manner that an impression would be created that it was a PAC attack on the Chands. DCC (Oosthuysen) was ... ... de Kock for arms to be used by Craig Duli in an attempted coup d'état on the former Transkei. The Applicant did not participate in the actual operation. He supplied the arms to a fellow security policeman Willie Nortje, who presumably took it to Eugene de ... CHAIRPERSON: Okay. Let me ask you this then. In the operation in which Mr Els died, how did you fit into the structure then? MR VISSER: And do you agree that you waited a while away from the Oshoek border post, while Mr Strydom was informed about the operation and where you had received certain information? The applicant then participated in the burning of three (3) shacks belonging to IFP members during this operation. ... that all the money was handed over to Peter Mokoena who had issued the order for the robbery to take place. There were no casualties in the ... General Nienaber issued the order for the operation. Subsequent thereto and on instruction from Pretorius, Lengene, Moni and Monyani informed the members of the unit that directions had been received from the MK command abroad to attack identified targets. school, what has happened in the high school. Are you already doing national service by imitation, and I am referring to the cadet corp that was in operation, has been part of the South African Defence Act since 1912. And I think thirdly your employers, because I want to get back to ... 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 BIZOS: Aren’t you really contrasting your attitude in relation to co-operation between what you were prepared to tell the SAP and what you were not prepared to tell these foreigners? ... February 1996, I resigned my membership at the AWB and at the moment I really do believe that the keeping of peace in our country lies within co-operation and tolerance amongst all cultures in this ... ... to identify him. He said that he had no option but to kill her in order to prevent the exposure of the whole incident as being a security police ... CHAIRPERSON: So to that extent you did not even contribute to the operation there, because you were not even allowed? The first is with regard to the interception of postal items, that the impression has been created at the very least that there was a very effective operation on the way to intercept all postal items? ... light was switched off. I stayed for an hour after that and I was sure that even if there could be anything around, I will be able to carry out my operation quite successfully and I threw in the hand grenade and I disappeared in the dark of the ... ANSWER:: It was, we did it in the open. After we had taken firearms from the ANC members we would go to the single quarters at the barracks and we operated freely, people would come to my room freely so it was a general operation amongst us. 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 RAUTENBACH: So it was about the whole issue of co-operation? |
