COETZEE, DJ

In this episode we are given some background to former Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee, whose amnesty hearing commenced in Durban this week, including an interview with the applicant. Former Vlakplaas colleagues, Almond Nofemela and David Tshikalanga, appeared in front of the TRC with Coetzee (5 ...

‘I was in the heart of the whore.’ These were the words security policeman Dirk Coetzee used exactly seven years ago to describe his role as the commander of the Vlakplaas death squad. And this week Coetzee and two of his colleagues told their horror stories to the nation. They were in the ...

name Vlakplaas came up again on Wednesday. Sizwe Kondile was a young ANC activist who was arrested in June 1981. // Former Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee said in 1989 that Kondile tried to escape and injured his head when he jumped through a window. // General Nick van Rensburg who obtained a ...

In November 1989 a man called Dirk Coetzee gave the first documented and detailed account of the South African Police death squad at Vlakplaas. He also told of his share in the murder of activist and lawyer, Griffiths Mxenge. One of his Vlakplaas colleagues, Almond Nofemela confirmed his ...

... then we cannot condone that. And I definitely cannot condone that. // Why didn’t you take those policemen to court? Why didn’t you take the Coetzee to court, why didn’t you take Eugene de Kock to court, why didn’t you charge them with murder then, in the eighties? Now we are doing it ...

... shootout, during their retreat two injured AWB members were shot in cold blood by a BDF soldier. Other segments include Vlaakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee being charged for the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, seven years after Coetzee?s death squad revelations and an interview with former security ...

... and finally, the killing in Durban of ANC lawyer Griffiths Mxenge by Vlakplaas operatives, including interviews with Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee and Mxenge family members. ...

... motivated killings. Also included in this episode is a report on the Amnesty Committee hearings (held in Johannesburg, 20 to 23 January) where Dirk Coetzee gave testimony on the murder of one of their own agents, Isaac Moema, and on the 26 November 1981 Gaborone raid by the SADF. The episode ends ...

... Nxiweni, an innocent student assumed to be a bomber, murdered and buried on Verulam Farm. The final segment reports on the criminal trial of Dirk Coetzee, Almond Nofemela and David Tshikalanga who were found guilty for the murder of Griffiths ...

This April Charity Kondile told the Truth Commission about the disappearance of her son, Sizwe in 1981. The first time Dirk Coetzee heard the name Sizwe Kondile was in London in 1989. During lengthy debriefing by the ANC it became clear that Kondile had been one of Coetzee’s nameless victims. ...

of 19 November 1981. // Working in the area of the regional security police chief of Port Natal, which is Durban, Brigadier van der Hofen, I …. // Coetzee testified that he was ordered by Brigadier van der Hofen to make a plan with Griffiths Mxenge. Capt Andy Taylor provided the details: where ...

Dirk Coetzee joined the South African police on 1 April 1970. With hindsight it is impossible to overlook the irony of the date. In an interview this week I asked him whether he had come to terms with the past. // It is up till this day so humiliating; it evokes so much anger inside me. Why could I ...

In many ways De Kock has merely confirmed what people like Dirk Coetzee had said seven years ago. One of the people who must take responsibility for the fact that politicians and generals could go on lying and denying until De Kock came clean is Mr. Justice Louis Harms. In 1990 Judge Harms led a ...

... Security police section C1 was born. Three of the most hardened South African policemen became its commanders between 1979 and 1993. Dirk Johannes Coetzee, convicted killer and amnesty applicant; Jack Johannes Jakobus Cronje, amnesty applicant for numerous cases; Eugene Alexander De Kock, 212 ...

In February 1981 a group of askaris under Dirk Coetzee’s command went to Swaziland on a mission to identify ANC cadres. One of the askaris recognized Joe Pillay who was known to them as a senior MK operative in Natal. They kidnapped Pillay and took him to Oshoek border post, from where he was ...

... and its commander, Col Eugene de Kock, now on trial on 112 charges of fraud and murder. De Kock decided to kill his Vlakplaas predecessor, Dirk Coetzee who had spilled the beans on death squads and had to flee the country. The Vlakplaas men built a bomb in a Walkman and mailed it to Coetzee ...

Dirk Coetzee, Almond Nofemela and David Tshikalanga found guilty for the murder of Griffiths Mxenge.

Amnesty hearings in Durban: Dirk Coetzee, Almond Nofemela, David Tshikalanga. State complicity (FW de Klerk on Vlakplaas)

The decision to charge Coetzee raises an important question for perpetrators. Is it worthwhile to confess? // I can tell you, my message to the rest of the Dirk Coetzee’s still sitting out there and didn’t stand up so far is: wait, look at what happened to Dirk Coetzee, watch me close, see ...

Dirk Coetzee’s death squad revelations in the weekly newspaper Vrye Weekblad in November ’89. According to Coetzee he and his four man death squad assassinated this man, Griffiths Mxenge in 1981. ‘Nonsense’, police said. ‘The man was crazy, Vlakplaas never killed anyone.’ // A claim by ...