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PHIRI, Thomas

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A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative, and was killed in the Nietverdiend ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were granted amnesty for the operation (AC/1999/0190; AC/1999/0192; AC/1999/0194; AC/1999/0031; AC/1999/0188; AC/1999/0030 and AC/1999/0197).

Brigadier Jack Cronje, former commander of the Northern Transvaal security branch calmly told the Amnesty Committee of yet another calculated and chilling execution in 1986. The victims, ten young men from Mamelodi who were poisoned and then blown up in a minibus. They were killed because they ...
 
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