Vlakplaas

MR VAN DER MERWE: And at the time of this incident you were a member of Vlakplaas, under the command of Eugene de Kock, is that correct?

MR BOTHA: Negative Mr Chairperson. I would just like to explain that Mr Ramatala's explanation concerning rewards for the askaris of Vlakplaas, is not as it was the normal practice.

... was aborted after ANC cadres became aware of the presence of the bomb in the kombi. No person was injured. According to the Applicant, the Vlakplaas Unit members had supplied the vehicle which they fitted with a bomb and the plan was that the device be detonated whilst the cadres were in ...

... with two other victims, Sefolo and Makope, was recently linked by evidence led in the De Kok trial by Joe Mamasela. According to Mamasela the Vlakplaas hit squad had tortured Makope and Sefolo until they were almost dead. Jackson Maake was stabbed. They were then driven to Madinyana at ...

MS CAMBANIS: And this kind of expertise, the chaps at Vlakplaas would have this kind of expertise?

... handgrenade to be planted in a car in order to cause the arrest of prosecution of MK members. This happened on the same occasion when askaris from Vlakplaas were used in a trap to arrest MK members who brought weapons into the RSA to be handed to ANC members operating on the Rand. It was ...

MNR HUGO: "En net om die rekord duidelik te kry, nie mnr de Kock of enige lede van Vlakplaas het sitting gehad op Trevits nie."

This house is not too far from Mbekweni, it is in Vlakplaas.

Oosthuisen het my ook meegedeel dat hy met kol Eugene de Kock van Vlakplaas gereël het om die AK-patrone met plofstof te laai en sou hierdie bendelede hierdie vuurwapens nou met daardie plofstof gebruik, sou dit noodlottige gevolge gehad het vir die een wat dit gebruik. Hy het ook dan aan my ...

MR LAX: Well then they may have then brought in a specialised unit like Vlakplaas or someone else, to do that.

... us that time. I noticed that some of the names of the people who were part of the interrogating team have featured in other incidences, like the Vlakplaas incident and so forth. It was not surprising that their names popped up there. These men were sort of way above the law. They were way ...

MR FORSTER: No, I did not operate any clandestine activities from there, in the sense that Vlakplaas would have with askaris and so forth.

MR HOCKEY: And the methods that were used by the CCB and Vlakplaas, was that according to you acceptable behaviour?

MR VISSER: So it's an insinuation? Alright. I just want to place on record that he left Vlakplaas and left the South African Police in December 1981.

and those who died, Peter Nkosi, I know them, for instance Vincent Mama who died with Diseko in other operation and some were for instance killed by Vlakplaas, Vincent Mama, there was an inquiry about that, so they subsequently died, some of them, in other incidents in which they were involved ...

Moni and Monyami both askaris from Vlakplaas, were instructed by Pretorius to organise training for the unit at a hotel room in Hillbrow. It is not clear whether the objective of getting more information about the various activities of the unit and its association with the underground structures ...

report talked about a possible link with the notorious Vlakplaas. I

... The Applicant testified that at the time of these instances he was a member of the South African Police's ("SAP") Security Branch ("SB"), based at Vlakplaas. He said that he had discussed both operations with his commander Col. De Kock, whom he believed had approved of ...

... came to be involved in the incidents.  All were members of the South African Police and were part of the Security Branch C1 unit based at the Vlakplaas.  De Kock was the commander of the unit at the ...

MR VISSER: So it's an insinuation? Alright. I just want to place on record that he left Vlakplaas and left the South African Police in December 1981.