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Operation Zero Zero

Explanation
Eight young activists were killed and at least seven were injured in explosions involving booby-trapped hand grenades in Duduza, KwaThema and Tsakane, Tvl, on 26 June 1985. The zero-timed grenades had been provided by a Vlakplaas operative purporting to be an MK operative. The operation, codenamed 'Zero Zero', had been authorised by the Minister of Law and Order. Fifteen Security Branch operatives, including the head of the Security Branch and other senior personnel, were granted amnesty for the operation.

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MR CORNELIUS: Did you or any of the other members consume liquor before the operation was launched?
The applicant has no knowledge of the extent of the damage caused during the operation nor whether any person was injured at Morget's house, except that the windows were broken.
... did not do the submission to the Chairperson, it was not my project. Only at the eleventh hour was I instructed by Staal Burger to execute the operation for the project with regard to the ape foetus matter at the Archbishop's house, I did not do any submissions, I received a direct ...
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 ...
MR VISSER: So what must be inferred from your evidence is that there was no danger whatsoever for any life or property involved in this operation for which you gave the authorisation?
MR RAMMUSI: I actually delegated. If I had an operation, I had members of the units who are given different responsibilities.
election campaign that I endured a lot of stress to the point where I actually suffered a heart-attack, and in 1990 I had to undergo a heart by-pass operation. The result of that election is now history today, and I realised that the political dispensation in this country had changed irrevocably; ...
What is the problem with your health? --- I have asthma and operation. I was operated because I was sick.
Furthermore, they were informed that these detonators were needed for an approved operation. I ratified their action and the provision of the detonators ex post facto. I understood and accepted that these detonators would be applied against the liberation organisations and that persons would ...
MR DU PLESSIS: Before the operation of car theft started, that was at the game farm. I'd say the Saturday evening, if that's correct, Chairperson.
... 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. ...
... chap, that from experience with prior detentions, apparently in Natal, he mentioned that during those periods of detention he offered no co-operation, that he would ignore one and that on a different occasion in King William's Town, he had beaten a security officer, a certain Mr Hattingh ...
MR WESSELS: And you then, indeed, at the second opportunity comprised the operation or the organisation.
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 TOPI DOMINIC TLADI: In September 1984, it was on the 3rd, in Sharpeville we were having an operation clean up. Just when we finished cleaning up we decided to go and have some lunch. Just before we went home we stood at the corner of the street together with my friends. We were talking and as ...
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 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?
MR VISSER: Alright. Would that be a fund or a payment when an MK cadre was going to start a new operation?
MR NEL: Paragraph 14, Mr Hanton, you deal with the incident in question, where you received instructions from Col de Kock regarding what you had to do, and you say there that you believed that the authority to take part in the operation, emanated from higher authority.
... herein and are satisfied that the Applicants have complied with the requirements of the Act. It is quite clear that they intended to carry out an operation against members of a liberation movement, the ANC, which was in conflict with the erstwhile regime. We also accept that they have given a ...
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