Vlakplaas

MNR VAN DYK: Ja, van Vlakplaas het ons dokumente gehad wat nou nie - hy was wettig maar hy was op 'n ander naam, 'n vervalste naam".

ADV BOOYENS: Mr Chairman, could my learned friend just clarify one thing. He said then they went to sleep. Who is the they? Is that everybody involved in the questioning or just the askaris or the men from Vlakplaas, if my learned friend wouldn't mind clearing that up, it is not exactly clear.

... into an empty office and there were three black policemen standing there. They were told to me - or it was said to me that they were askaris from Vlakplaas. They never spoke to me, they never greeted me, they showed no emotion, although I tried to - I greeted them, I tried to speak to them. ...

MR CORNELIUS: Is it correct that at the time of this Chand incident you were stationed at Vlakplaas and you served under Section C of Eugene de Kock and you were also a Warrant Officer?

... believed to be either ANC members or collaborators.  Permission for this operation had been received from both Brig Schoon who was then head of Vlakplaas and Brig Loots within whose jurisdiction the targeted house ...

MR ROSSOUW: Do you confirm the rest of the contents in that statement on 179 and more specifically the function at Vlakplaas where Mr Vlok attended and which you also attended?

"Members attached to the Security Branch arrived there that evening in our area, apparently awaiting these explosions. At some stage I had a discussion with Col Venter and Col de Kock. Last-names was stationed at Vlakplaas, Pretoria.

MR LOTZ: At Vlakplaas.

MR VISSER: About 9 years. There's a popular misconception, is there not, that the askaris that operated during the conflict of the past, were all stationed at Vlakplaas, near Pretoria. That perception is incorrect, is that right?

MR NEL: At the time of this incident were you a member of Vlakplaas, obviously in the South African Police?

mentioned that Nortje who was a member of Vlakplaas and in

"I later heard at Vlakplaas"

MR MOERANE: From time to time from the 80's did you make use of the people from Vlakplaas, de Kock's people, for operations?

MR WASSERMAN: We pulled off before the range and I, and we spoke together and he informed me that the Vlakplaas contingent had picked up Mr Bhila.

... during our trial, which is today Exhibit A in the amnesty hearing. One of the most well known attacks was the bombing of Cosatu House in 1987 by Vlakplaas operatives and both Eugene de Kock and others have applied for amnesty in this ...

... Police when he carried out the operation. It was the duty of the Security Police to maintain law and order in the Republic of South Africa and the Vlakplaas Unit was created specifically to deal with insurgency and to counter any possible attack on the Security Forces and ...

somehow they were above it all and the Judiciary’s role in our country made them far more valuable to the fortification of apartheid than a thousand Vlakplaas farms could have done. It gave the system a veneer of respectability which the state could flaunt to the outside world and it added steel ...

MR MWELASE: When I was released from prison I was taken to Pretoria where I joined Mr de Kock's unit at Vlakplaas. Normally we would leave Pretoria for Durban to assist in their operations, that is in identifying people whom we knew from exile. It was not only MK cadres who became askaris but ...

The next day they cleaned the vehicle and returned to it. Hanton went to report to Taylor and Nortje, Brits and Swart travelled back to Vlakplaas and reported to de Kock. He says that he reported to Engelbrecht. De Kock says he gave Nortje the balance of the cash left over from the operation in ...

MR LAMEY: During your service at Murder and Robbery and or thereafter, did you know of a Unit known as Vlakplaas?