Vlakplaas

MR DU PLESSIS: To explain this to the Committee and to make it clear to them with regards to evidence that was given earlier on, C1 was Vlakplaas and it later became C10, is that correct?

concept of criteria, the liability of putting in to place things like Vlakplaas,

he's going to participate. Every person that's turned into an askari and I know of instances where people were turned into askaris without going to Vlakplaas, but with respect, the information which Prinsloo followed up which was valuable and he continued interrogation in order to ensure that he ...

The incident occurred while a team of Vlakplaas members was assisting the Nelspruit Security Branch.  The team were led by Captain Baker and consisted further of Lieutenant Van Dyk, Sergeant Nofemela and Constable Nicholas Dube.

... we never heard anything except now that the inquest has started I heard that there were certain queries that it could possibly be members of the Vlakplaas. They say it is possible that it's them, but there is no surety. I saw it in the newspaper last ...

MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, it was with regard to mitigation and this was to explain the nature of Vlakplaas' activities to the Court.

... at the time had already embarked on a program which was to turn some of our people into what we now refer to as Askaris and at the time, I think Vlakplaas was, I think at it's ...(indistinct) stages. I may not have personally have been fully conversant with the finer details of the entire ...

EXAMINATION BY MR JANSEN: Mr Ras, you were involved in the Cosatu House incident and your role was to drive the kombi to Johannesburg and back, in which some of the Vlakplaas operatives and some of the explosives experts people were, is that correct?

MR BERGER: That's the Brig Schoon who was in charge of Vlakplaas?

... other forces involved in this conflict. The police, the South African Defence Force. We've also heard allegations of third force activities, of Vlakplaas, Battalion 32 has also come up and particularly around the train violence. There were certain periods in this part of the country where ...

... presumably accepted by family, friends and work associates. Their diabolical and cowardly actions even earned them silver medals for bravery at a Vlakplaas ceremony, of all the hideously ironical things, and they might even be proud of them. Just how sick is our society that we accept among us ...

CHAIRPERSON: Can I interrupt you for a moment. Was this a Vlakplaas vehicle?

Approximately seven years after that - well, in the meantime I'd been transferred to Pretoria Security Branch and I met the informer at Vlakplaas for the first time and I asked him what had happened during that incident and he explained to me what took place, or what had taken place."

MR PIENAAR: After his detention in Piet Retief he was taken away by head office. I don't know where else he was detained, but he later ended up at Vlakplaas, where he worked in C1, under Col de Kock.

MR S HUGO:: Then he says that you contacted him at Vlakplaas. You wanted to know if he had contact with the Ballistic Unit of the South African Police, seeing as he had some problems, did you say that to him?

Thank you. Let me just ask you one final question. Have you heard of a place or a case called Vlakplaas? --- I don't know what is that.

... of different sections of the army, covert operations, names that have emerged like Battalion 32 involved in some of the train violence, some Vlakplaas operatives, military people, and we're hoping that soon a clear picture will emerge of what was actually happening and that with more and ...

MR CORNELIUS: You were also a member of Vlakplaas, as prescribed, and you had the rank of Constable, is that correct?

... with them were referred to as Ovambos, that is persons from outside the country who had been members of Koevoet and who were now stationed at Vlakplaas.  The planned operation went awry and in consequence the two "Ovambos" engaged in a fire fight with the gun runners to defend ...

MR BOOYENS: During 1990, as you can see on your application, page 88, you were present at a roadblock where four Askaris were arrested, who later found themselves at Vlakplaas.