Vlakplaas

The amnesty committee is accordingly satisfied that De Kock and the Vlakplaas team which can be regarded as foot soldiers comply with all the requirements of the Act.  They acted under orders.

MR ROSSOUW: Mr Willemse, when this incident took place, were you stationed at Vlakplaas?

MR HATTINGH: And this is set out in the supplementary affidavit with regard to Vlakplaas and there you deal comprehensively with that discretion?

MR MOGOAI: He was Sectional Commander in Vlakplaas. We left Vlakplaas and we were deployed in Northern Province, where we were supposed to work there and trace members of MK. On a particular day we were called, Capt Vermeulen told us - it was myself, W/O Letsatsi and Mfalapitsa, that we should go ...

MR VAN DER MERWE: During this incident you were a member of Vlakplaas and you fell under the commander of the Commander, Mr Eugene de Kock.

MR BOOYENS: On page 248, is it correct to say that right from the outset, you were at Vlakplaas?

MR LAX: C10, just for your information, was Vlakplaas.

CHAIRPERSON: What was the work that Vlakplaas was doing at the time?

a farm known as Vlakplaas, a so-called anti-terrorist unit?

      3.    The Committee finds that no offence for which amnesty can be granted has been disclosed in respect of the acts involving the transportation of arms from Namibia to Vlakplaas or from Vlakplaas to the Security Branch in Natal.

MR LAMEY: You see the reason why I ask you, there must have been a good reason why Vlakplaas was involved, because if the people were not armed, or if you never thought that the people would be armed, you could have done it yourself, is that not so?

CHAIRPERSON: Well we started with Mr de Kock referring to his volume on Vlakplaas, which is what, 150 pages.

... unpleasant.  He did say that he was told later, after Mlangeni's death, that the package they had sent had exploded.  Although he then realised Vlakplaas was responsible for the death he did not say ...

MR VISSER: And C Section had, amongst others, incorporated in it C1 and that was Vlakplaas?

Mr Ras, in July 1989, you were a Warrant Officer stationed at the C1 Unit in Vlakplaas, is that correct?

MR BOSCH: The camera was purchased by the Police, we used it at Vlakplaas. It wasn't specifically purchased for this particular operation, we had it beforehand.

... involvement in the infiltration of ANC into the Northern Natal platteland, the caching of arms and planned attacks.  De Kock, as head of Vlakplaas at the time, had knowledge of these activities from security reports emanating from Northern Natal and Eastern Transvaal and had ...

MR LAMEY: Mr Mogoai, is it correct that you were a member -you became a member of the Security Branch specifically stationed at Vlakplaas since approximately 1980?

MR LAMEY: At this stage you were a member of Vlakplaas, under the command of Mr de Kock.

MR MBELO: No, I mean I was not aware that I was going to join Vlakplaas. I thought that I was going to join headquarters, Security Branch.