Vlakplaas

MR ROSSOUW: And you were stationed at Vlakplaas, is that correct?

Mr Bosch, we have heard from the applicants that Vlakplaas for quite some time before this operation was active in the Ladybrand area, is that correct?

MR JANSEN: The two warrant-officers of Vlakplaas who were involved in the matter with you, Mr Snyman and Mr Vermeulen, they were State witnesses in that case, correct?

MR CORNELIUS: The background history of Vlakplaas has already been discussed at length and in this section of the South African Police?

MR CORNELIUS: The background history of Vlakplaas has already been discussed at length and in this section of the South African Police?

... happened and they never pursued the case of attempted murder against the police officers. Now what is very strange again is a whole contingent of Vlakplaas went to Durban. Immediately after the shooting they go back to Vlakplaas. Almost 40 members of Vlakplaas went back to Vlakplaas. Now, ...

MR LAMEY: Now Mr Mosiane, in your first application as well as in your supplemented application, you have given background relating to you becoming eventually a member of Vlakplaas and as such then also a member of the erstwhile Security Police, is that correct?

MR LAMEY: At Vlakplaas?

MR HATTINGH: Very well. May I just for a moment jump ahead? After this operation was completed, you were taken to Vlakplaas, is that correct?

MR DU PLESSIS: Very well. When you refer to the farm, do you refer to Vlakplaas?

MR S HUGO: 1983 you joined with the rank of Captain at, you joined the unit at Vlakplaas. Is that correct?

MR HATTINGH: At the time of this incident you were the Commander of Vlakplaas.

MR BOOYENS: From what time were you at Vlakplaas?

MR CORNELIUS: On Folio 14 you reflect your personal particulars, stating where you were born and your progress through to the C Section, Vlakplaas Unit of the police.

MR LAMEY: Then you also know that there were discussions which involved the elimination of Coetzee and you came to hear of these discussions at Vlakplaas, is that correct?

... Similarly you have also filed a further affidavit which has also been served before this Committee and other Amnesty Committees, which dealt with Vlakplaas, its objectives, the background and any other elaboration regarding Vlakplaas, and you also request that this be incorporated as part of ...

MR ROSSOUW: You returned with the other members of Vlakplaas back to Vlakplaas.

*     It is not at all clear to me why one would not, travelling at night, rather travel on a clearly superior road such as the N17 to Piet Retief which is not much further from Vlakplaas than is Nerston via Amsterdam on the R65, which is an inferior road to the N17;

MR BOSCH: I was working at Vlakplaas.

... to Lieutenant in 1975 and stationed at Sibasa.  Here he became friends with David Tshikalanga, Alias Spyker, who later became a co-member at Vlakplaas.  He lectured at the Police College from the beginning of 1976 to the middle of the year whereafter he was transferred to Volksrust.  ...