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... used very effectively with regard to the identification of PAC and ANC members, because virtually the whole of Vlakplaas consisted of former MK or APLA members and we would be able to arrest these persons and recruit them, we would also be able to neutralise stockpiling locations by being able ...

MR PRINSLOO: I was attached to Unit C. Unit C at that stage had to trace MK and Apla terrorists and infiltrators, and to investigate terrorism like bomb explosions and assassinations and also gathering Intelligence regarding such infiltrators and activists and also their activities in the country.

MR VAN DEN BERG: And then there were also incidents during which the opposite took place, during which the ANC attacked supporters or members of the PAC or APLA. Do you know about that?

MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, the members that we had caught of MK or of APLA would then be handed over to the local Security Branch, they would do the questioning, they would do the identifying and they either recruit them or they would look at court cases and if it is not maybe related to other case.

"... If I could just follow that up, I hear you. I hear the difficulties of operational command, we heard that from APLA themselves and we heard it now, how difficult that became as the struggle intensified as more and more people were recruited, training became less intensive and more difficult ...

MR PRETORIUS: The SACP, the ANC, MK, PAC, DIA, Apla.

MR LAX: Did you only work on MK cases or did you work on PAC cases, APLA cases as well?

... testified to before the Human Rights Violations Committee and I believe Mr Lax was a Commissioner at the time, or a member of that Committee, by APLA, by the ANC, by everybody to say that we acted in that time on the spur of the moment, we didn't have time to reconsider. We, thinking back ...

... he should come to Zeerust or to Potchefstroom and talk to them because he is now creating a monster. He is going to allow PAC guys to infiltrate, APLA guys to infiltrate, because they will not be able to arrest every group that comes in. They would have to let one go, arrest others and they ...

MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, he would have been shot in the head, there is no doubt about that. As I've given evidence before, there were instances in which our members shot an MK or an Apla and even though you knew he was dead you'd still fire two extra shots to the head to make sure that he was dead.

MR MALGAS: In answering this question, I would put it this way. In South Africa we had liberation armies like MK and Apla. As I've already mentioned here before that 2 members of the MK, they were responsible for us in certain things, so the instruction or the decision was that we should take ...

ADV SANDI: Yes, but just tell me, what was the normal practice if you turn an MK or APLA cadre to work for you and leave his own organisation, would you not give him your own codename and not continue calling him by the same name he was using whilst in that liberation movement?

... form from the prison which he completed with the assistance of Thabiso Makwala, a fellow inmate and member of the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army ("APLA") who has since died. He was at first reluctant to submit an amnesty application, but was eventually persuaded to do so by his comrades. He ...

our intelligence services. In the case of the Umtata raid it was based on extensive surveillance that had indicated that the target was, indeed, an APLA base. This was, according to the reports that I received, substantiated by two independent police sources. ...

... diligent planning and goodwill enabled the relatively painless process with which the six forces, joined shortly after the elections by APLA as the seventh, unified in the National Defence Force on the eve of the national democratic elections in April ...

there were some other criminal activities which happened to be perpetuated by the very same system amongst our communities turning our MK cadres and APLA cadres into askaries and all those things. We happen to live in this era. The situation came to change not because of their wishful thinking ...

*     was a member of the PAC and its military wing APLA at the time of the commission of the three acts he seeks amnesty for; and that he

... that was in October, I went into Botswana. And my husband took us there with my two children. We stayed for about two months and it is Pamla of Apla who was very instrumental in saying to me weigh your options Sheila, are you sure you want to go in ...

... Police Intelligence agent in the media. Now, is thus the time to challenge all other individuals and organisations such as the ANC, MK, PAC, APLA, etc, to do the same and to come clean on their agents in the media, both past and present. Just as it evokes suspicion that after resigning as ...

... a challenge for civil societyand it's particularly a challenge for the SADF. It's a challengeas well for those who served in the SADF in MK, in APLA in PLANas to, not what can we do for you but what can we facilitate thatyou do for yourselves. ...