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A-Team (OFS)

Explanation
The A-Team, also known as the 'Phakathis' was a vigilante group set up and headed by a well-known local councillor in the Thabong area of Welkom to counter the activities of the UDF primarily, and in a smaller measure, the ANC. The A-Team carried out a reign of terror in several areas of the province, particularly in Thabong and Parys, under the guise of 'maintaining order'. In at least one case, the A-Team is alleged to have been supported by police and municipal structures.

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ADV BEMBRIDGE: So, if I am understanding you correctly then, you were the person responsiblefor making sure that the team got to the attack and away from the attack safely,but you had no idea of where you were going or how to get away from there thereafter?
MR KHOTLE: In many cases, particularly in my military training, they said each and every comrade should be, I should trust him only 90%, I should reserve the 20%(???). Those are the aspects of my training, that is why that if it happens that we should have a disturbance, or the compromise of the ...
From his evidence Sir it appears that even to get his mail he must use his father's work address. And he says even in that instance, Alice being what it is he still cannot get his mail as he should get it. Looked at, in the background of what he has painted to the Committee, one can only ...
"The Intelligence group expanded over the last four years from a section of five with two sources, to the large groups as indicated above. During this time, a professional observation team was established as a prototype for the Security Branch.
MR RORICH: Chairperson, maybe I should just mention to you that because of the fact that this incident had taken place in Piet Retief's area which resorts under Colonel Deetlefs it would be normal practice that the Commander of that area, draw up the reports and inform the necessary people who had ...
"I was never in the same team at work with the applicant as he alleges during 1982 and 1988, I never worked with the applicant at the security branch and he was never a member of the security branch of Compol, Pretoria in 1987 during my employment there".
MR RICHARDSON: I liked her because she was a girlfriend of Buthile who was also a soccer player in my team.
MR KLOPPER: If I recall correctly, C10 was divided into three sections. De Kock had one team and Baker had another. If I recall correctly, all the authorisations for funding was obtained under the name Excalibur, so I cannot tell you pertinently that Lieutenant Tait was in command of it or ...
The 6th applicant, having received the information on the 7th of June 1988, contacted the 1st applicant, requesting assistance from Vlakplaas with a proposed ambush following the infiltration expected on 8 June.  C-section had a team-building exercise scheduled on the Natal North Coast at a ...
MR MORRIS: Yes. He then accused me again of playing for a team which he doesn't like.
The Applicant had accompanied some members of Colonel Eugene de Kock's team to Lesotho.  He was merely an observer of the operation and took no active part in the incidents.  There was an exchange of fire between other members of de Kock's team and some ANC members.  It transpired that three ...
MS KHAMPEPE: Mr Maxam, what was an A-team? In some of your documents you have referred us to a unit called the A-team.
MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, I personally, and it's my personal opinion, did not like Mr Mamasela, he usually followed his own head. He was not a person who could work in a team, he was not a team-worker. That is how I experienced him. At times he was mean with specifically the askaris, but he got ...
MR NORTJE: Yes, they would be the team to execute the elimination.
"Foreign Affairs referred to the success that was accomplished in the recent past in the Lesotho matter by a small high-profile or high level project team by RSA officials."
MR DU PLESSIS: You will agree with me that Mr Beeslaar was not part of the interrogation team.
MR VIKTOR: Yes, I enquired with the investigative team of the then Attorney-General, in order to determine which matters they were investigating against me, and certain facts were made known to me.
CHAIRPERSON: We are reverting to the hearing of the application relating to the attempted murder of Dirk Coetzee and the killing of Bheki Mlangeni. Before we commence I would place on record that we have a new legal team and I would ask them please to put themselves on record and to speak a ...
The attorney for the Legal Resources Centre does not wish to give an undertaking that the documentation to be used at the hearing by the legal team for the family will be produced as requested and they are of the view that the applicant is required to make full disclosure prior to a victim having ...
The conflict in Natal has grown out of the ethno-national politics engendered by apartheid. The specific context of the conflict is a complex one, involving a range of issues related to specific localities and struggles. In rural areas, the threat of removals by the state during the 1980s had led ...
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