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VENTER, (first name not given)

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Was severely injured when the vehicle he was driving detonated a landmine at Stockpoort farm in Ellisras, Transvaal, on 4 January 1986. Two people were killed and one was injured in the incident. The landmines were part of a campaign aimed at the SADF and commandos in rural areas. The ANC abandoned the campaign due to a high number of civilian casualties. See ANC landmine campaign.

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‘We were issued enemy uniforms, rifles, ammunition, weapon gear and transport. We were to tie yellow scarves on our shoulders to go enemy or not. Major Du Toit was operation commanding officer and Captain Ben Venter field commanding officer over Operation Modular. Infiltration, deep into enemy ...
... commander and Northern Transvaal security police chief Brigadier Jack Cronje, Captain Jacques Hechter, Captain Wouter Mentz and Colonel Roelf Venter, all former Vlakplaas operatives and Warrant Officer Paul van Vuuren. They will give evidence about more than forty murders and are expected ...
Brigadier Jack Cronje, Vlakplaas commander from 1983 to 1985. Colonel Roelf Venter, Vlakplaas officer in 1984 and ’85. Captain Wouter Mentz, based at Vlakplaas from 1989 to ’92, contemporary of Eugene de Kock. Captain Jacques Hechter. Warrant officer Paul van Vuuren. These former police ...
... where some of the teams were still busy with the subject. We would have a social gathering on this side and then you can hear someone moan in another room. ...
... in the audience pricked up when Mortimer started talking about special forces. These included the 5 reconnaissance regiments and one of the most notorious organisations in the apartheid state [the Civil Cooperation Bureau]. ...
... are now asking for amnesty for the killings of the men who have become known as the Pebco Three. Their four co-conspirators from Vlakplaas Roelf Venter, Gert Beeslaar, Kimpani Mogoai and Johannes Koole are asking for amnesty for abduction. At this week’s hearings the different but chilling ...
the men had left the country. More lies. The abduction of the Pebco Three was a Vlakplaas job. Joe Mamasela was there, following the orders of Roelf Venter who told us about his involvement last ...
... Commission lifted the veil on several unspeakable and sometimes bizarre acts of cruelty and cold blooded murder. And in the process the profile of another ruthless mass murderer is emerging, Vlakplaas warrant officer Joe Mamasela. But with the successes for justice and truth come uncomfortable ...
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