Vlakplaas

MR HAYES: People such as Vlakplaas members were regarded as heroes by me and the Security Branch and I assumed that from time to time they were involved in such similar operations and this indicated to me that it was indeed acceptable for the country at that stage.

MR WILLIAMS: Now Mr Mbelo, you've been before this incident, you've been based at Vlakplaas for a few years and based on your experience did you subjective foresee the possibility that if a captured person did not co-operate to the satisfaction of the handlers or the people who were in charge of ...

MR DU PLESSIS: Mr Hammond, can you recall who was present at the planning meeting at Vlakplaas, the night before this action?

MR DE JAGER: On a later occasion, I was present at a function at Vlakplaas where we and other colleagues of the Security Branch were thanked on behalf of the government by Min Adriaan Vlok, then the Minmster of Law and Order.

Warrant Officer Willie Nortje, former member of the police hit squad based at Vlakplaas, testified the following under oath to Gauteng Attorney-General Dr Jan de Oliviera.".

MR BIZOS: No, I’m going - did you know that Mr de Kock was at Vlakplaas at that time?

Mnisi was arrested for the murder but was taken into the care of Coetzee and they continued with the Vlakplaas activities. On one such operation Isaac Moema was removed by Vermeulen, a Vlakplaas member, and Mnisi never saw him again. Mnisi managed subsequently to escape to Swaziland and thereafter ...

... 3rd Applicant instructed the 4th Applicant to assist him in the operation. Later that night the two of them drove to Crown Mines where members of Vlakplaas, who were operating in the area, were temporarily based. They requested the Vlakplaas members to assist them in the operation. From there ...

... like Major General Victor who used to be the head of the ANC/PAC desk in the headquarters, security branch headquarters, who was also in charge of Vlakplaas activity according to the dossier that we have of him, and in fact Dirk Coetzee who is supposed to have reportedly told by the dossier that ...

... the list was made available to you, it was in fact agreed that we will deal with the applicants contingent by contingent, and that the next, the Vlakplaas operatives and so, we'd first finish their evidence, thereafter I think the Johannesburg Security Branch, then the technical section and ...

MR HUGO: Stratcom. In fact the weapons depicted on the video was put there by the Security Police, more specifically by Mr de Kock and some of the other Vlakplaas operatives on instructions from his officer commanding, were you aware of that?

... in 1986 Glory Sedibe, a cadre of Umkhonto weSizwe ("MK"), the military wing of the African National Congress ("ANC") was abducted by members of the Vlakplaas Unit. He was subsequently turned and worked for the SASP at Vlakplaas. During interrogation Sedibe gave information about activities in ...

... which served before this Committee yesterday, at pages 19 and 20 your name was mentioned as somebody who went into Lesotho with members of Vlakplaas, on a certain mission, what is your reaction to ...

and explosive devices to the IFP as well as any other offence or delict involving the provision of arms to the IFP committed by other members of Vlakplaas which on the evidence may render the Applicant a co-perpetrator or ...

... comrades, as he was one of the chief witnesses accompanied by Willie Nortje, against Eugene de Kock in the exposure of the atrocities committed by Vlakplaas. Now the reason why I'm mentioning this is to indicate if we're going to make any suggestions towards the credibility of my client, that ...

MR LAMEY: Mr Chairman, Lamey on behalf of also two applicants who were ex-members of the unit Vlakplaas. I just want to place on record that my position as far as my clients are concerned is similar to that of Mr du Plessis although I have considered asking Mr Vlok just a general question ...

de Kock's case, de Kock did admit that he had something to do with the death of my child. Nokkie also admitted that he was given certain weapons at Vlakplaas so that he could come and plant them with the four corpses so that there would be a suspicion that they had come to kill people in Durban. ...

MR DONAN: What about Vlakplaas? What was your relationship at any stage of your career with Vlakplaas?

... Commander of the Eastern Transvaal Division approved of this and ordered Pienaar and Van Dyk to assist. De Kock was told by Pienaar that they, the Vlakplaas Unit, would be involved in the operation. He was eventually briefed by Deetlefs and possibly Visser of whom De Kock was not quite certain. ...

... for informers during or about the period August 1981 - March 1993 when Applicant was a member of the Security Police unit stationed at ...