Vlakplaas

Now there were two meetings if we can call it that - paragraph 8, Mr Chairman - and the second opportunity was when you left for Vlakplaas and where you and members of the Vlakplaas Unit left in separate vehicles to Johannesburg the evening of the explosion and you had said that Eugene de Kock took ...

... Security Branch was active in the Natal war. Certain of the Indunas were actively encouraged to overcome the UDF in the area. From about 1990 Vlakplaas got involved via supplying arms and ammunition. Some of our agents also resigned and joined the IFP fulltime in one or other ...

... of the page, the second last paragraph, approximately a week after the incident, the then Minister of Law and Order, Mr Vlok, addressed you at Vlakplaas and congratulated you for your action at Johannesburg. It appears that this could be a mistake, that it was not in fact a week ...

referred to askaris. I know for a fact that the applicant is the only one, him and Andy Taylor that worked on the askari farm similar to the one at Vlakplaas, here at Natal at Stanger. I was at this farm once, I was there once because I had certain information that I telephonically conveyed to ...

... preponderance of seconded officers of questionable repute, of questionable backgrounds. As Commissioner of your police you had a former founder of Vlakplaas General Viktor. As head of your Military Intelligence you had a person who is said to have a CCB background, your Chris Nel. As Chief of ...

Likewise, enquiries to other senior police generals also testified to the fact that they were unaware of the atrocities planned and perpetrated from Vlakplaas. ...

CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR GREYLING: Mr Mathebula, did you receive the instruction at Vlakplaas to go to Soutpan?

MS VAN DER WALT: Sir, when you started working at Vlakplaas after you had returned from Lesotho, after the incident, how much money did you receive at Vlakplaas, for this incident?

During this request I contacted Eugene de Kock from Vlakplaas and asked him whether he could assist me in supplying AK47s, rifles and other arms. And this happened, he assisted me, he agreed to assist me and Mr Botes then gave me an amount of between R7 500 and R10 000. That money was not ...

4. At Vlakplaas Msibi was further assaulted by De Kock who inter alia hit him with a belt. He was, according to de Kock, reluctant to co-operate, but eventually "neutralised" inter alia by the fact that he had been persuaded to give evidence against two informers who had been charged in the South ...

- He was not based in Durban, but in Vlakplaas near Pretoria. It is inconceivable that he would have, on his own, come all the way to Durban to launch an operation of this magnitude;

"... I and other members of Vlakplaas C-Section, under the command of Capt van Dyk and Capt Pienaar went into Swaziland."

Vlakplaas vehicles and you drove to Port Elizabeth. You and Lionel

MR FOURIE: The following day I also had a discussion with him, thereafter I undertook a thorough photo identification with him at Vlakplaas.

MR LAMEY: Your recollection was that you were particularly searching for a terrorist with the assistance of Vlakplaas members, and that this terrorist was known as Orderele Maponya, is that correct?

MR JANSEN: You are also aware of the fact that this series of hearings of incidents where Mr Eugene de Kock was involved was preceded by a specific hearing with regard to Vlakplaas itself?

MR SCHOON: The others, I knew that they were from Vlakplaas, but I did not know them.

BRIG CRONJE: I was the Commanding Officer at Vlakplaas.

... CCB was not the only body that was committing acts of violence, both against property and persons deemed to be the enemy of the State? There was Vlakplaas, there was the Security Police, there was the CCB, there were suggestions that the Special Forces were doing things, there were suggestions ...

... by the former SADF suggests that the CCB was set up in May 1986. Who authorised this? What was the nature of the relationship between the CCB and Vlakplaas? What was the total CCB budget? How was this budget authorised and accounted for? What expenditure was involved in closing down operations ...