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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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MS MTANGA: You were present when the applicant gave evidence that you were amongst a team of people who went to visit his home at Paul Pietersburg?
ADV STEENKAMP: Chairperson, I have no evidence but the request of Ms Cambanis on behalf of the victims, I just want to place it on record what the latest information is regarding Mr Kentane. The latest information which I could obtain was that Mr Kentane, that he during the de Kock investigation ...
MR WEBSTER: And if I understand you correctly after you had identified or at least spotted the vehicle, it was then expected that Breytenbach and his team would then take over and do the necessary?
From there, it would be the work of the intelligence team to see to it what time can this be carried out, and whatsoever, and what appropriate means of attack can be used in such an attack.
EXAMINATION BY MR CORNELIUS: Thank you Mr Chairman. Mr Vermeulen, you have made an application and handed it in in Cape Town and you gave your full co-operation to the Investigative Team of the TRC.
It was put to me that I had to put together a team to do this operation. There was no way that I could pick Mr Winter to form part of this operation to work under me.
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 ...
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 ...
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 DU PLESSIS: You will agree with me that Mr Beeslaar was not part of the interrogation team.
MR NORTJE: Yes, they would be the team to execute the elimination.
MR BOOYENS:: Surely your legal team have gone with you through your statement before you testified yesterday? Because you were actually being led on it.
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.
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 ...
MR HATTINGH: And were there members of the South African Task Team that were asked to be of assistance?
Perhaps the group of people who should be thanked very specially is the investigators. We have mentioned them before, Mark, Phumla and Madeleine and Lucky and Zoelpha, but most importantly Zenariah Bahrens who is the head of the investigating unit in the Western Cape region for her unflinching ...
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 ...
Also to our Interpreters who are here today. We are very pleased that we have been sent a very powerful team. Welcome to you Pakamai Ntchongwane who is going to be doing the English/Xhosa interpretation and the other way, and we are really glad to have you back. You have been doing impeccable ...
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