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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 SANDI: Secondly we learnt today that you were commanding this operation to shoot and kill Mr August.
CHAIRPERSON: ...[inaudible] symptoms were evident before this whole operation started.
that there was some favouritism that was going on with regard to the elections. And we continued in that spirit of non compliance as well as non co-operation. After about two months Nkosi was also chosen. He was elected as a mayor. And I did not see eye to eye with Nkosi, because the things ...
small operation on the head. He told me that it wasn't a tumour and he doesn't know exactly what the matter was. At the present moment he's taking drugs just to get him better and be able to sleep, not to ...(indistinct).
Applicant arranged for a member of the Security Police to be detained together with the two BCP members in order to obtain their co-operation under false pretences.  The two BCP members were eventually assisted to escape from custody and were placed in possession of a vehicle fitted with an ...
... and certain equipment on the premises were damaged in the explosion. All reasonable steps were taken to avoid any loss of life or injuries in the operation. The explosives were primed to detonate at 03h00 when no-one would be present on the school premises. Snyders and his colleagues were ...
Although they were not in the same unit, wherever members of the different units were working together they obeyed the order of the senior officer in charge of the specific operation.
Further to that, there is no operation of this - the ANC hierarchy somewhere you know, from upper authority where this power was given or the authority to go ahead and kill anybody that was Inkatha in the area.
MR NGHOBENI: The murder and unit members worked in co-operation with prison warders. They would come to fetch me from prison without authorisation from the court. When I reported this to the head of the prison, they did not take the matter up. He would inform me that there was nothing he could ...
... comrades, and rebut suspicions that his police stepfather was using him as an informer, he agreed.  On the day they were going to carry out the operation he tried to escape but unfortunately for him he met them on the way.  It was Sifiso Kwela and Maxwell Ndluyake.  They asked him where ...
... go to consult your Commander and say can I get an order to go and protect, so it only happens you know, sometimes when they had to sort of plan an operation. I think if you go through the submission there is a place where I mention a Small, a guy by the name of Small, who was very short. He ...
The Applicant was a member of the Special Operations Unit of Umkhonto weSizwe. During May 1983 she received instructions from her superior officer, one Aboobaker Ismail, to drive a motor vehicle which had been primed with explosives from Swaziland to a specified place in Pretoria. She drove the ...
... the Republic of South Africa and upon the orders of Mr Joe Modise. The Applicant was a member of the unit responsible for the execution of the operation of which the commander was General Lombard Moloi. The Applicant himself was tasked to "plant the shells of the mortars". The objective of ...
... Offices to demonstrate the ANC's solidarity with the protesters. Their intention was not to injure any people, so they decided to carry out the operation after closing hours when the employees have left the ...
MR PETER: My request is that I should get medical treatment because the operation I had gives trouble.
... to assure you that the session will be conducted in as a professionally manner as possible and we are very pleased that you have indicated your co-operation by being here to start with. And I would like to take the view that, that is the sort of spirit that is going to prevail throughout the ...
ADV VISSER: And lastly also in your application, you also incorporated Mr Erwee's application in so far as it relates to the facts of this particular operation on that date?
MR NYAWUZA: And how many of you were to undertake this operation, not the hijacking, the attack on this army base?
MS BUYA: I was not in the leadership, it was just the way we used to do things. If there was something people would go door to door and ask for co-operation so you were forced to be members of any organisation.
MR MONAKALI: I could see my muscles and bones. There was an operation, grafting my skin from my, back of my thigh onto my arm.
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