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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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CHAIRPERSON: Good morning everybody. Today is a continuation of the application of Jerry Richardson, he completed his evidence-in-chief yesterday and before we commence, I would like to thank Correctional Services for their co-operation with the Committee.
MR XABA: Sorry. What I meant was I didn’t want the Court to know that my aim of killing this person was because of my organisation’s objectives. It was an operation which I’ve planned.
I also think that if I were to explain further, we also indicated that we accepted their manner of operation, accept it and pleased about it, knowing that they were attempting to bring about stability. At the same time being aware that some people might get injured.
JUDGE PILLAY: I can understand that. I found out now that it happened but here is a brother of a person who was suspected, now why an operation so no one would know?
ADV STEENKAMP: Can you give us an idea or indication who was actually in charge of this operation.
... to use his house and use his yard to get access to the fortified house of the deceased, access thereto being indeed difficult without his open co-operation in that regard. Plus that there was the aspect of his omission, he could have easily have telephonically have alerted the police to what ...
go to the toilet and had no appetite at all. However, gradually I managed to get back. My heart was torn apart, because each time I looked at this operation I felt like ...
... to a fair trial accrue only to an accused person. The recalcitrant examinee who on refusing or failing to answer a question triggers the possible operation of the imprisonment provisions of Section (1)(89)(1), is not in my view an accused person. 'For purposes of the protection afforded of ...
... was arrested in 1980. And I was in detention for almost three months and I was tortured. I think both my eardrums have been perforated and I had an operation, I have been put a temporal (...indistinct) in both ears. Then I was sentenced in 1981 to 10 years in Robben Island. Then I finished my 10 ...
"My involvement in the operation was that I was in the vehicle together with Willie Nortje when the arrest of Malaza was executed and the handler was arrested and abducted."
... testimony about the body of your son having been removed, police claiming it and you getting it back again with all the cuts. It seems as if an operation had been performed, as if there was an autopsy done. Have you ever had a further explanation for that and what people were searching for ...
DR BORAINE: Thank you very much for your help and co-operation. The story you have to tell is a very distressing one, and we want you to know that we are sympathetic towards you, and are hoping that you will feel relaxed as much as possible as you tell this story, and I am going to hand over to my ...
... the same authority with regard to developments that fall outside this framework. In this regard, I made an unsuccessful attempt to enlist the co-operation of by predecessor, Mr P W Botha. The submission was, however, prepared after discussions with the retired leadership of the South African ...
... can we facilitate a process where we can have, create our own knowledge, the knowledge that we can own and recognise and that will guide us in our ...
MS ANDERSON: Yes, we didn't have a big enough operation from there.
CHAIRPERSON: Were you the only one that discharged firearms there in that operation?
of SWAPO (the South West Africa People's Organisation).  He is unable to state whether the weapons were at that time intended for any particular operation.  He later heard that some of the arms were later given to Inkatha, the Ciskei government for use by the Ciskeian army and also to ...
MS MAHLOPHE: Yes, she's got scars on her head and her neck and the operation on the throat her whole stomach - they shot her in the stomach.
... 1991, and at Jozanashoek, where he was based, instructions were issued by one Happy, also known as Raymond Letlapa Mpahlele, the then Director of Operations of APLA, to him and one Vuyisile, also a member and soldier of APLA, that the said police station be attacked, in line with the APLA ...
MR WAGNER: Was that before or after this operation which was also in 1987?
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