Vlakplaas

... His involvement in the fourth incident, the attack on a house in Waterkloof resulted from the fact that he "happened" (toevallig was) to be at Vlakplaas when he was requested by a colleague, Martiens Ras, to drive his car (Ras's car) and accompany him to the house where several shots ...

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

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?

... security branch of the South African Police and the South African Defence Force special task forces would identify targets. At that stage the Vlakplaas Unit C2 was the interrogative unit and the C2 was TREVITS. Each region had its own target identifying unit and the regions were West ...

MS GCABASHE: Having read you Section 29 evidence, you talk of Vlakplaas and Trevitts and you talk about Regional Security Branch meetings, you know how you move from your, you do with the lower level chaps, you had your regional meetings and these would eventually be reported in whichever form to ...

MR BOOYENS: And did you accept that this was the sort of work which was in either event was carried out by Vlakplaas?

... say to me directly or indirectly,: "Look for a place where we can place 40 kilograms of plastic explosive", or whatever, that was the job of the Vlakplaas people. Each in these operations, once again for the need-to-know principle, what you didn't have to know was never told to you, if there ...

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 Koole, before - could you just explain, were you part of a group of Vlakplaas who was in the area of the previous Eastern Transvaal prior to the abduction of Mngomezulu?

CHAIRPERSON: I'm having difficulty with what you're trying to get at, Mr Stofile. You're questioning him, you're saying "why didn't you join Vlakplaas or the askaris?" Now he says "I didn't join them because I didn't want to kill people". Now you say "okay, I've got a problem with that, you ...

The first applicant testified that he was approached by Sergeant Andrejovic, a former Vlakplaas operative, who was stationed in Springs at the time of the incident. Andrejovic requested him to assist in getting rid of a body of a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) whose name was unknown to ...

about half past nine. We were taken to a certain mountain. It is not far from Pukeng, but it is a hidden area. It was the same as the building at Vlakplaas. That is where we were tortured. There is certain Captain called du Preez. That is the one who was operating the electrical wires on us. ...

... 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 ...

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 VISSER: Yes that's the case, Chairperson. If I may just mention that there other applicants from the Transvaal because Vlakplaas was present at the time and there are a whole bunch of, I'm not sure how many, of other applicants in that matter as well so it is already a longish matter.

MR LAMEY: Before you went to C2, you yourself were also a member of Vlakplaas.

MR CORNELIUS: You were stationed at Vlakplaas, with the general background as has been submitted before to this Committee. What rank did you have at that stage?

MR VISSER: And as such you were also the Head of Vlakplaas which was C1 as it was known?

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?