Vlakplaas

In 1982 I was stationed in Soweto. Col J.C. Coetzee who was then a Captain, was the Commander of Vlakplaas. At a stage earlier in 1982 he was busy with investigation and detection of terrorists in the Soweto environment. That was also my work in Soweto and it led to the fact that he and I began ...

... This resulted in close co-operation between him and Brigadier Jack Cronje who at that time was in command of what has since become known as the Vlakplaas unit of the Security Police. The applicant was asked by General Geldenhuys to work out a plan in order to effectively counter their ...

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.

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?

... 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 ...

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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

FURTHER EXAMINATION BY MR BOOYENS: Mr Kok, you have already given evidence in this application and in your evidence you mentioned that you were present with the people from Vlakplaas when the cassette player was bought along with the earphones, 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.

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."

... 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 GAMEDE: The people who actually appeared in the inquest, it was Eugene de Kock and Mr Pienaar, and there were quite a few people from Vlakplaas. (Cellular phone ringing) Have you answered?

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

... 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.

... 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 ...