Vlakplaas

Applicant was an MK soldier who had been kidnapped and became an askari. He was ordered to identify members of MK who came back to the RSA after they had received training abroad. His commander at Vlakplaas was Captain De Kock.

... say "I know there is a considerable amount of evidence pointing to Region 6 and the CCB's involvement, but I want to tell you that it was in fact Vlakplaas or Eugene de Kock or this person or that person, because we made our enquiries at the time and it revealed the following." Do you wish to ...

MR MATHEBULA: I remember about Steenkamp, that he was present because at the time when I was working at Vlakplaas, we used to go to him. He came, but I don't remember when he talked to the deceased but he usually came to talk to Capt Prinsloo, though I don't know the content of their discussion.

... to identify a suitable terrain for the execution of the plan. A desolated farm was identified where members of Special Forces and members of the Vlakplaas unit of the Security Police would inject the activist with a substance which would cause them to fall in a comma. Thereafter they would be ...

MR CORNELIUS: You were also stationed at Vlakplaas, of which we have the full details before the Committee in various applications and you held the rank as a sergeant, is that correct?

MR THEJANE: There was a meeting at Vlakplaas where Eugene de Kock addressed us and he told us that the unit was being dismantled and they will organise that we get the packages.

At the time of the incidents the Applicant was a member of Section C1, Vlakplaas.  During August he received instructions from his commanding officer, Colonel Eugene de Kock, to carry out certain operations under the command of Colonel Louis de Jager, then commander of the Intelligence Unit ...

... brother at the back when he was referring to the money that some have received, it is a dramatic example I think he was referring to that when the Vlakplaas Unit that specialised in the assassinating our people closed down, over 17 million rand was paid in golden handshakes to the assassins. ...

ADV DE JAGER: It seems to me as if it was normally the task, also at Vlakplaas Unit, that the task of the

... Schoon was not an applicant in this application. De Kock, in turn, through the usual line of command, involved other members of his unit at Vlakplaas in the operation, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and seventeenth ...

The Applicant was a member of the Security Police and at a stage a member of the Vlakplaas Unit. His application is formally in order and he applies for amnesty in eleven (11) incidents dealt with in his application in Schedules 1 to 11. The Committee will refer to the different schedules in its ...

... 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 ...

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

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.

... acts, they were there to gather information on activists and from other sources, but we know that the Security Branch established the thing called Vlakplaas, we know that there were murders committed by the Security Police, why does it follow now that they can make that jump from their ...

MR MANTHATA: But when you leave Mamelodi you pass through Cullinan before you go to Vlakplaas.

... Mr Chairman, I don't think it will be forgery, it might be fraud, but not forgery. It was a genuine passport that these people produced at Vlakplaas. At other hearings that evidence was placed before the Amnesty Committee. They actually built up a history for the person with his ...

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 ...

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."

MR BENNETTS: That is how I understood it. Whether they were just used just for information or if they were used for actual operations, as they were from the Vlakplaas issue, to me it was one and the same, it was a chap who had been turned around and was now being used by our guys.