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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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MR BLACK: Thank you. The further issue I just want to raise with you is you mentioned that Sehlwana received a cash payment of R2 000 because of the good work he did. Did any other members of that task team receive any form of reward or recommendation?
MR BIZOS: Page 22 - 23 Mr Chairman. The passage has no corrections by the Attorney's team Mr Chairman.
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 ...
MS GOBODO-MADIKIZELA: So clearly you were not the person to head a team of people who were going to make an arrest in a crowd situation when you had no previous experience of crowd control?
MR HATTINGH: These persons who were dousing the first floor with petrol, were they different members than those that were dousing the ground floor with petrol, or did the same team work on the both floors?
MR COETZEE: Yes, the following morning Chris Olckers and his team arrived there and there were many reporters.
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 ERASMUS: No, Mr Ngo was there on detached service. Earlier this morning I mentioned the investigating team which worked there but I don’t have knowledge of any other individuals.
MR ZWANE: Once, after coming from prison, as I have stated to you that I was arrested in the process of the formation of the team.
sometimes in May this year, the Special Investigating Team, they said they have a lead and now they said they wanted something from me to get to, do you know any person whom you think that he had bombed and so forth, but they have not yet come to me. I phoned them, asked them how far they. They ...
You take such instances that at one main school here, there was a sports competition and kids were playing. One team in which there were many Black kids won so they started toyi-toying and singing in Sotho, jumping for joy that they won. The principal at the assembly said this school has an ...
MR SEMENYA: And when did you go to join the team?
Goosen and Williamson thereafter decided to include Captains Vic McPherson, John Adams, Eugene de Kock, Jimmy Taylor and Warrant Officer Jerry Raven in the team. Raven had to obtain the explosives, put it in containers and Goosen arranged for it to be sent to London via a military intelligence ...
MR SWANEPOEL: Yes, could you look at paragraph 5 of Exhibit E1 that was handed to the Committee. I know you don't read Afrikaans, but I will roughly translate it for you. That was the deposition made by yourself to the Investigating Team of the Attorney General's office some nine months after you ...
GEN NEETHLING: At three instances, not 200 000 at a time, at three various stages, just make sure of your facts, it's 70 000 per time approximately, 3 X 70 is about 200 000. I was satisfied to put it in the boot of his car because I knew he's a responsible physician who would do with it what we ...
MR THULARE: But as part of the team that was supposed to keep the public away, wasn't it contemplated that you may have difficulty in keeping them away because you were involved in a clandestine operation which you couldn't publicly...[intervention]
MR MANDLAZI: I was based in Mozambique, Maputo, as a reporting officer there and I was responsible for a safe house where we used to keep our comrades who were either going home or those who were coming back from home and of course this safe house was our - that is, the department of intelligence ...
ADV GCABASHE : So your understanding is that Mr Naude and his team was simply carrying out an instruction from the Security Branch, but they did it the way they understood best in terms of the logistics and who would do what exactly?
MR ALBERTS: And were you then part of this team of vehicles, if I can call it that?
CHAIRPERSON: Mr Nieuwoudt's team, the people that he normally worked with?
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