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VAN DER MERWE, RAge Description ... amnesty in order to avoid being privately sued. Official interventions 21. Urged by a former state attorn e y, Mr Jan Wa gene r, General van der Merwe, the former Commissioner of Police, approached the Commission to discuss the concerns of security force operatives. He afterwards convened a ... 8 was conducted in the East Rand townships of Duduza, Tsakane and Kwa-Thema by a joint team from Security Branch Headquarters. General Johan van der Merwe, then second-in-command of the Security Branch, sought and received approval for the operation fro m then Minister of Law and Order, Louis le ... ... did not approach the Commission. Cases received by the Commission that can be classified in this way concerned the deaths of Mr Johannes van der Merwe [JB00686/02PS] and Mr Thomas Shingange [JB03383/02NPTZA] and the injuries of Mr Edmund Beck [JB00135/01GT] and Mr Welmar O’Reilly ... ... in these bombings. During their amnesty hearing, the group claimed to have acted on orders from General Nico Prinsloo (and Brigadier Leon van der Merwe). The applicants are Mr Nicolaas ‘Cliffie’ Barnard [AM6484/97], Mr Abraham Liebrecht ‘Koper’ Myburgh [AM6465/97], Mr Etiene Jacobus Le ... ... Gunn was later detained. 528 Vlok said that PW Botha congratulated him, at an SSC meeting, on work well done. Evidence by both Vlok and Van der Merwe at the amnesty hearing further indicated that, at the time of the NP’s second submission to the Commission, former President de Klerk had ... ... Section A66 operatives, from two members of the Western Transvaal Security Branch who assisted with the operations, and from General Johan van der Merwe, who authorised it. 66 Section A monitored the activities of Indian, coloured and white activists and organisations. ... public sector there is a danger that decisions and instructions are not formulated, conveyed and interpreted in a correct way. 31 Mr Johan van der Merwe, former commissioner of police, said at the State Security Council hearings that “we had to move outside the boundaries of our law”, ... ... Justice, precisely because of this factor. 50 Launch of the Standing for the Truth Campaign, 1988. 51 See J Kinghorn, BC Lategan & CF van der Merwe, Into Africa: Afrikaners in Africa Reflect on Coming Home (Stellenbosch: The Centre for Contextual Hermeneutics, 1988). ... attacks on houses or vehicles using petrol bombs. Applicants in three incidents were divisional commanders: then Lieutenant-Colonels Johan van der Merwe, Dirk Genis and Eben Coetzee. An informer, later a police recruit , sought amnesty for some of the above incidents as well as an additional ... ... marked police helicopter over the camp, they acted aggressively and attempted to stone it. There was therefore a delay before General Van der Merwe of the SAP ISU could arrive at the camp. In their search of the camp, police found a large quantity of weapons and medical supplies in the ... ... the divisions of the past. The actual dialogue in Duduza has, however, not yet started. 15 Abridged version of work undertaken by Hugo van der Merwe, senior researcher at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, with funding provided by the United States Institute of Peace. ... |
