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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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... to come to Botswana or people would come to Botswana. And in most cases these people came through perfectly legal channels. This was his style of operation. So this business about, was not the manner in which really he ...
Apologies Mr Falck, it’s very difficult to deal with evidence of this nature if there is this sort of distraction. Please, will you just respect the occasion and allow us to just work through the evidence. I’ll appreciate your co-operation, thank you.
operation.
If you are sitting on the State Security Council, you must know what is happening in your country and there could never, and believe me, I was there, there could never have been an operation of that nature that wasn't highly organised.
... to come and work for him and he was going to pay me more. So, I left the first law firm and I worked with him, I worked for him. He was a one man operation at the time and I stayed with him up until now when I was forced to leave work because of arthritis. ...
... unit be arrested, care should be taken not to compromise the entire unit. Applicant understood this to be at least tacit approval for the kind of operation they engaged ...
served under him to do the necessary planning in collaboration with a Capt Baker from Pretoria Head Office.  He specifically instructed that the operation should take place in such a manner that no injuries or loss of life would ...
Can I just ask about your injury? It seems as though the emergency operation, the doctors were able to re-construct your eye, but you obviously still have consequences of that injury. Perhaps you can just give us some idea of what the side effects, or the consequences were of your injuries.
... again it was the [indistinct] of yet another Minister of State of the apartheid Government, Dr Viljoen who ironically was called Minister of Co-Operation and Development, who had announced that extra staff and transport were to be supplied to speedup preparations for the removal of residents ...
... against the very persons whom you had undertaken to protect, do you seriously want this Committee to believe that if he had not given his co-operation to you and your colleagues, that it was not reasonably foreseeable that he would be killed or at the very least seriously ...
The Applicant emphasised that the reason why they embarked on the operation was because of the need to protect the members of the IFP against the onslaught from the ANC and that the IFP needed firearms for such protection.
with him. I will be glad if the Truth and Reconciliation Commission could consider the abovementioned information when it comes to behaviour and co-operation and ...
MR LAMEY: Did you know or did you expect that there would be people in the building when the operation took place?
... I could only hear the voice of a man saying skiet (shoot) and it may be upon that assumption that one would assume that it’s a certain koevoet operation. That’s what comes into my mind I must ...
Mnisi was arrested for the murder but was taken into the care of Coetzee and they continued with the Vlakplaas activities. On one such operation Isaac Moema was removed by Vermeulen, a Vlakplaas member, and Mnisi never saw him again. Mnisi managed subsequently to escape to Swaziland and thereafter ...
... of them. One of them was arrested by the police, the other went off on his own he very fairly confirmed that to us today, that there had been co-operation. And in those circumstances there appears to be no doubt whatsoever that the act was committed during the course of the political struggle ...
... six months in hospital. I have thirteen pins in my body. A doctor from overseas, Doctor Floris, treated me. My leg wasn’t straight after the operation and this doctor came and helped me. I thank this doctor because if it wasn’t for him my leg would have to have been amputated. He treated ...
W VANDOYI: Yes, I do because my arm cannot work properly. I had an operation.
... ambulance was phoned and the ambulance took me to Groote Schuur. At the Groote Schuur Hospital I was admitted, they took me to the theatre for an operation. I think I came to at about 20 to nine. I was in a ward, lying on my back. But when I tried to speak I couldn't. There was some thing ...
... for amnesty, not just now to ridicule this process, but to do their share. I have no right to close this meeting, but thank you. You get our co-operation. God willing I may join you later some time tomorrow in Tzaneen. God help you. Let us ...
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