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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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FURTHER EXAMINATION BY MR LAMEY: Mr Mosiane I think perhaps you should only - in this incident would you also - can you just clarify for us, that is the next ...(indistinct - background noise) incident that we're dealing with. You referred here to another 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.
... shot at him. They went to the traffic officer who opened his window, drew out a firearm, they fled and shot at him, but there were several other operations which really didn't take place. For instance, there was one operation where they were going to throw a hand grenade at police officials. ...
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 ...
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.
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?
... no difficulty in the circumstances, that as at April the year before last, the fifth applicant was able to make the statement during the car bomb operation at the Why Not bar, three people were killed and 69 injured. He made that under oath. It is an admission which he is bound by and which ...
... written submission. In the second paragraph of the letter, the letter states, in the written submission we only stated that the details of this operation would be contained in the amnesty application of the applicants who are now before you. The written submissions, with respect are somewhat ...
MR SANDI: Secondly we learnt today that you were commanding this operation to shoot and kill Mr August.
MR VISSER: There Chief Commandant Kloppers decided that only two vehicles would be used for the operation.
... that you could shoot into the hostels across the road. That is just as an example, but were you ever involved in giving SDU units that were on an operation ...
... with her attorney, Mr J Kruger. I understand the purpose of these visits to be to get me to drop the investigations in exchange for Renata's co-operation regarding the statement and my files. However, it would have been abundantly clear to Renata that I will not be subjected to extortion at ...
MR DU PLESSIS: Captain Hechter, and do you accept that you were in command of this operation?
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.
They wanted to operate so that they could see properly, they did so. On that evening, the same Thursday, that is when they operated. He did not survive the operation.
CHAIRPERSON: ...[inaudible] symptoms were evident before this whole operation started.
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.
I thought you did not want anyone to be aware of your intention to kill Mr Phumayo, least it leaks out? I thought you were the only one who was going to be involved in this operation, and nobody else?
MR MAPOMA: And I take it that he never gave you instructions to go into that operation, am I correct?
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