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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 901 to 920 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 42 •43 •44 •45 •46 •47 •48 •49 •50 Next Page•Last PageMR GOUWS: Yes, that is correct. Well he must have obtained permission from Mr de Kock, it was his operation, so he must have had his own orders. ... picked up by a person whom the Applicant was unable to remember, but soon thereafter, Captain Pretorius informed him that he had terminated the ... related to the political atmosphere of South Africa at the time. Coupled with that was the instruction to resist all hurdles to this particular ... They stated that if they had found that the area was used at night, they would have abandoned the operation. defending the community. They left for the police station on the 15th December 1993. Their activities were intended to be part and parcel with the operations of the SDU. Duduzi Kubeke was in command of the operation, his nickname is Bla. He was also the overall commander of the Slovo SDU. ... MR BOTHA: There could have been more vehicles Chairperson because while we waited at kwaMashu police station, more members from the South African police arrived to participate in this operation. MR STOREY: The Crisis Committee having refused to assist in a habeas corpus operation, left us really in great difficulty about how to proceed, but they did give the assurance - and I think this is where we thought the next step might be - that there would be a calling together of the whole ... soldiers which proceeded to the premises occupied by Mr and Mrs Jafta in search of certain MK cadres who were suspected of hiding there. During the operation the Jafta premises were destroyed and their shop was looted. It is apparent from the evidence of the applicant that he played no role in ... of the community and they were angry, why they didn't toyi-toyi to her house and deal with her there and then? Why do they settle for the secretive operation here in the middle of the night if this was indeed a political ... CHAIRPERSON: Also he was Head of Special Ops which was a far bigger operation, this was just a part of it. ADV ARENDSE: Ja in fact Mr Sibaya I want to tell you that on that evening of the operation at Heidelberg they were operating under different names, did you hear the name Khayalethu that evening, Khayalethu, K-H-A-Y-A-L-E-T-H-U, did you hear that name? sustained. Please remove your headphones. Turn around so that we can see the wounds on your back. Lift up your clothing. Is that the scar of the operation that you underwent at ... MRS MTHOMBENI: There was no co-operation during that time. There was some misunderstanding at that time. If perhaps a school child could die, people were marching, teachers did not actually conduct the normal classes. So there were a lot of disturbances. The police were always surrounding the ... CHAIRPERSON: I would like to request everyone’s co-operation. The question being put by Reverend Xundu, if I understand it correctly, is that he wants to know if you had any knowledge of the fact that people did object to the presence of councillors. MR LAMEY: And did you then report any further on the course of the operation? ... told me I don't think it's necessary to fly her up here from Plettenberg Bay, it's too much expense and inconvenience and having regard to the co-operation there has been throughout this hearing, I'm sure that agreement can be ... The operation was planned for the night of 5/6 March 1994 but unbeknown to the applicants the police was tipped-off, allegedly by Pedlar. Reinforcements were sent to the police and what was foreseen as an easy task, became a shoot-out in which Mr Jaggers was killed and Messrs Nyanguna and ... They relied on this information and in pursuance thereof, put their plan into operation. A bomb was then placed in the Wimpy Bar Restaurant at Benoni. Some time thereafter it exploded causing extensive damage, the death of a person and injuries to others. MR WILLS: And you used - for this purpose you used the 9mm pistol that you had got for the operation, is that right? In terms of the matters of operation in the underground, it was vital that we needed to delay the matter so as to test the trustworthiness and commitment of Modise, the Rustenburg based activist. In the mean time we kept on supplying Modise with more political literature to acclimatise himself ... |