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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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I was duly taken to a private doctor who examined my hand and said that I should go to the Natalspruit Hospital. That is when I underwent a second operation. That is when they removed a gauze that was inside my hand. I got discharged from the hospital. After about a week the security branch ...
to why ...[indistinct] statement was submitted to court and made into evidence whereas mine wasn’t. Was he pressing me down? He didn’t show any co-operation with me, he did things unilaterally and it did not show that he wanted to absolve me from the ...
After leaving hospital I went daily for physiotherapy for a year and during that period I went for another operation, a bone graft. I walked on crutches for two and a half years and had to depend on other people for assistance. My life was changed overnight. I lost my job and my medical aid. I ...
MR NIEUWOUDT: That is to obtain information from him and then possibly to get his co-operation and then also possibly to give testimony, evidence in a case when he should be charged according to the law and then to get the necessary information.
REV XUNDU: I wanted to get an idea. Was there support for this entire operation?
DR ALLY: But you had an operation when you were in hospital. Yes? They operated on you?
had been violated and they were working in co-operation with attorneys here in
MR MBANDAZAYO: Yes Mr Chairperson, if I may clarify, all the others were, the operation in Cape Town, Heidelberg Tavern and Khayelitsha Police Station ...(intervention)
MR LABUSCHAGNE: Yes, Chairperson, I did. And because I was aware of that fact ,before we executed any operation we always had a prayer and we asked that no-one should be killed or injured.
him at some point to confirm that. I then want to just briefly turn to the other incident, which happened four days later, where, in a very similar operation to the one in which your brother was killed, the five other people whose names were mentioned by the previous witness, that was Sifiso ...
investigate who actually killed your child or where your child could be if it can still be possible. All this will be done or achieved with your co-operation. We thank you and your family. Thank you for the ...
... to them so that they should be ... (inaudible) ... in the process, in the ongoing process. Those people should continue when your term of an operation comes to an end as at the end of this year, so that those people, the church and others, especially those which are influential, should ...
... wing of the ANC and received military training under the auspices of MK. At the conclusion of his military training, Applicant joined the Special Operations Unit of MK in Lusaka, Zambia. After discussions with the then commanders of the Special Operations Unit, Aboobaker Ismail and Johannes ...
the white electorate. The first applicant stated that although he discussed the matter with the third applicant the final decision to carry out the operation rested with him. He instructed the second applicant to accompany him. They planted a limpet mine supplied by the third applicant, in a ...
They brought food. I got food in a very unmannerly way. They just threw food to me and said that is how we treat terrorists because there is no co-operation between a terrorist and human beings. According to my mind, I just pushed the food back the way they did it to me. I was further told ...
As if there was some co-operation between the doctors and the police, because it appears as if the doctor or the doctor’s staff would notify the police if somebody comes for treatment who was injured in a political situation. Would that be a fair summary of the situation?
MR NDLOVU: There was no order that was given to us, there was not even a person that we would report to after an operation, but as the MK cadres, trained cadres, we realise that it was very important for us to protect the people. As we were trained, we were trained for such purposes, that we ...
MR VISSER: And furthermore you had nothing to do with the operation?
Mr van Heerden, you've applied for amnesty and you've given your full co-operation to the investigative team of the TRC.
now we've heard in the main conditional statements if they do testify. We are interested in accelerating the process and we would appreciate the co-operation of our learned ...
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