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A-Team (OFS)Explanation Showing 401 to 420 of 843 First Page•Previous Page 17 •18 •19 •20 •21 •22 •23 •24 •25 Next Page•Last PageMR CORNELIUS: You are an applicant in this matter and you've given your co-operation with the Attorney-General, as well as the Investigative team of the TRC. MR CORNELIUS: I'll do so, Chairperson. Formerly, just in a blanket address, it is my submission that my client fully complied with the requirements as set out in Section 18 of the Act in that it was formally filed in the formal notices, he co-operated fully with the investigation team of the Truth ... 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. The amnesty committee is accordingly satisfied that De Kock and the Vlakplaas team which can be regarded as foot soldiers comply with all the requirements of the Act. They acted under orders. 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 ... 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 ... Commission or the investigative unit or the legal team on behalf MR VISSER: Yes, Chairperson, as ready as we'll ever be. But if you will forgive me to take this opportunity before we commence to, on behalf of our team, to congratulate you on your permanent appointment to the Judiciary of the Transvaal Provincial Division. We're certainly looking forward to ... MR LAMEY: Well, may I just say this Mr Chairman, generally it contains information about his background and then there is also an extract of a previous affidavit which was we assume made to the Goldstone Commission and to the Investigating Team of the Attorney General, specifically relating to this ... MR PRINSLOO: Did you, or are you aware that after that an investigation was launched, during your presentation of your matter with regard to the accused, when you were the investigating officer? That an investigation was launched and that various statements were taken by the investigating team? There were other people that he could have turned to and I must just comment Mr Chairman that at that time the focus of that Commission was not really matters of the past, it was focusing very much on what was happening at that time and the future and in particular, it was focusing on the security ... We stayed. Willie and I formed the team and worked together for about five years. Today we are free, thanks in part for the contribution of the young people. Let us remember them with a simple plaque. Their victory is our victory. MR VAN DER MERWE: Can you confirm for me that he was not part of the interrogation team? MR CORNELIUS: And was the necessary information conveyed to Col de Kock and his 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 MORRIS: Yes. He then accused me again of playing for a team which he doesn't like. 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 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. |
