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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 Potgieter: Just to be more specific General, in regard to an issue that enjoys our attention, the former Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB). From your perspective should there be any difficulty for the Commission in gaining access to records relating to that organisation.
MR WILLS: Why did you not investigate more thoroughly or plan your operation more thoroughly to ensure that the people who you killed and injured were the people who you intended to kill and injure?
... of the sentence says: "the applicant was never a member of the security branch, Northern Transvaal and as such, was never a trusted member of the operation". So, it’s just an added part of the sentence which could have been left out ...
MR RATHMAN: And what I want to know is how long did this whole operation take, this whole attack in which you were involved?
MR NGCAMLA: My request is that I have three cracks in my right arm and I had an operation in my chest and I could not work. My children want money, everything wants
M TYOBEKA: The following day after the operation, before the police came, the Doctor showed me my X-Ray plates. I was scared because I could see some object in my stomach.
... who was actually, the person who was there, I think he was called Colonel Piet Greyling, he was the man who was the chief there, but the entire operation was run by General Johan Coetzee. I have nothing against him. I mean, he didn't ill-treat me. But then I think, being such an academic man, ...
MR LEWIN: From what you tell us it must have been a very well planned operation if it was in fact deliberate and it was an ambush.
We did go to our own operation as planned because we agreed that I would be the commander of this unit. On the other side Vuyu would be the commander and he would be accompanied by Ri, then the other one would be the commander of Derek.
CHAIRPERSON: Yes, I think it is quite clear that they were operating as MK members, on an operation.
and left these policemen and when we came back from the doctor I continued with giving them the statement and they left. After having undergone the operation they called the hostel superintendent saying that he must come and call me, I couldn't go because I was confined to bed for ten days. As ...
MR TOBEZWENI: They were in my ankle. So I would like the Commission to help me, but I am scared of getting another operation. Maybe I will be paralysed.
When I arrived there, they said that my eyes were completely damaged, but they will try to cure it. I was taken to theatre after some days - the Doctors were checking the damage and they did an operation on my right eye.
So, all the time they would call me to their office to reprimand me and I could cry in front of the management. Even the operation gave me some problems and this I reported to the manager but he ignored it.
MR MAPOMA: Is there any person amongst the three of you who was in charge of this robbery "operation"?
... up people to have them shot, that you set them up in a robbery merely to shoot them. If you were to think back, would you have continued with the operation if these persons had not indicated any intention to commit a robbery and if there had not been any information that they had committed ...
ADV POTGIETER: You mean you either need the co-operation of the police or the blessing?
and address the meeting. We went to that meeting and I came back. We organised a programme of action in which we wanted to implement some clean-up operation as the youth of that residential area, and we wanted to clean that residential area to show the councillors that they had failed in their ...
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CHAIRPERSON: I'm at a loss. And you have just stated and confirmed that you knew you were going to use firearms, you knew before the operation got underway, during the planning, that you were going to use firearms. By your own admission you couldn't have undertaken a mission of this nature ...
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