Vlakplaas

... today to put his side of what had happened. We are also finding out now, of the role that the Third Force, what is referred to as Third Force, the Vlakplaas units - Mr Mamasela's name has been mentioned, and the role they played in many instances in killing young people. Would you like to ...

When it became clear that Mosiane and his compatriots had decided to co-operate with the police, they were transferred to Vlakplaas where they worked with Eugene de Kock. There they were subsequently involved with the notorious Vlakplaas Security Police Unit in a number of actions to counter the ...

MR POLSEN: Is this now Stratcom but not Vlakplaas? You were at Stratcom and not at Vlakplaas, because then you would have known these terms?

... want to emphasise my feelings in this hearing, in two phases. The first phase deals with us. By us I mean myself and my former colleagues at Vlakplaas, especially those who are present or who have been present in this hearing. My second phase will deal with my feelings towards the whole ...

MR RAUTENBACH: And then I also want to ask you, I'm almost at the end of this cross-examining. With regard to Vlakplaas. Were you involved at Vlakplaas?

... and that he was blown up by de Kock but yesterday also the point was made that he was at Mrs Madikizela-Mandela’s house because he had escaped from Vlakplaas and was actually giving information to the ANC concerning Vlakplaas activities. Do you gentlemen know about this - any of you, either at ...

... whom he erroneously still regarded as a member of MK.  Mfalapitsa's defection was a closely guarded secret.  He was in fact stationed at Vlakplaas, a secret security police base, at the time.  Mfalapitsa reported his discussion with Musi to Coetzee, his superior at Vlakplaas.  ...

... present, when you gave the political motive and there extensive evidence was covered about how Stratcom worked, how the Security Police worked, how Vlakplaas was the operational base for all these attacks. Hence you find in this incident that my reading of the documentation before me is that ...

allegedly carried out by a Vlakplaas Unit. If you could please just account for us these events.

... came to be involved in the incidents.  All were members of the South African Police and were part of the Security Branch C1 unit based at the Vlakplaas.  De Kock was the commander of the unit at the ...

... The Applicant testified that at the time of these instances he was a member of the South African Police's ("SAP") Security Branch ("SB"), based at Vlakplaas. He said that he had discussed both operations with his commander Col. De Kock, whom he believed had approved of ...

... we never heard anything except now that the inquest has started I heard that there were certain queries that it could possibly be members of the Vlakplaas. They say it is possible that it's them, but there is no surety. I saw it in the newspaper last ...

... commuters in Soweto and other places. In those who raped women and killed innocent children, all these including the Gestapo murder squads of Vlakplaas, the Mamaselas, De Kocks, Coetzees and those of the killing fields of Natal. Including all that, we find that all of them "hulle is ...

EXAMINATION BY MR JANSEN: Mr Ras, you were involved in the Cosatu House incident and your role was to drive the kombi to Johannesburg and back, in which some of the Vlakplaas operatives and some of the explosives experts people were, is that correct?

... that Mr Willemse who was, I believe, the most junior ranking person involved in the execution of the operation, he was a sergeant at the time at Vlakplaas, the same applies as far as he's a foot soldier is concerned, Mr Chairman. I therefore submit, Mr Chairman, that this Committee can be ...

MR VISSER: So it's an insinuation? Alright. I just want to place on record that he left Vlakplaas and left the South African Police in December 1981.

Like these statements that have been made on TV by Mr Mamasela who - who has been part of the Vlakplaas security network. I was watching him on TV when he confessed that Niewoudt was beating- in fact was responsible for the beating of the PEBCO 3 who disappeared in the ‘80’s

The incident occurred while a team of Vlakplaas members was assisting the Nelspruit Security Branch.  The team were led by Captain Baker and consisted further of Lieutenant Van Dyk, Sergeant Nofemela and Constable Nicholas Dube.

MR FORSTER: No, I did not operate any clandestine activities from there, in the sense that Vlakplaas would have with askaris and so forth.

... of the arguments. And Mr Jagga, after this raid approximately 14 persons were killed - 9 persons were killed, and this was a raid by people from ...