askari

MR NYATHIKAZI: One that I was aware of as being a political opponent was Zweli who to me was similar to an askari.

misunderstanding through all the coded communication of "problems" and "solving of problems". It seems as if the deceased might indeed have been an askari and if indeed there might have been a plan to have his former colleagues to influence him, or to work on him. All this however would amount ...

... you must - you must please understand that I was never really interested in that part of policing. But whether he had come from Pretoria with Askari’s - and I think that’s the first time that I heard of so-called Askari’s too. I had very little knowledge of those ...

MR MAMASELA: The same thing that happened to my colleague and my friend and my fellow Askari, Brian Mulunga, would have happened exactly to me because we were involved in the Harmse Commission together and he was killed for attempting to expose those lies.

MR VISSER: And that would be as an Askari?

MR HATTINGH: Yes, but whoever had abducted him, I think there may have been one askari involved, let's leave it at that, the people who abducted him, had not disguised themselves?

"... and I, through Duiwel, had hung an askari and he died."

CHAIRPERSON: Yes, I think maybe we should clarify that. I think you are right, it seems to me on the papers that there was a Black member of the security branch who would normally not be regarded as an Askari.

MR ROSSOUW: And that was your duty as a so-called askari at Vlakplaas, to identify other MK members and to try and recruit them.

MR BEESLAAR: No it is not really correct, it would be an askari or as I have already stated, a returning terrorist who had been rehabilitated, because an informer was something quite different.

MR DE KOCK: Yes, I think he was an askari, if I think about it now. That is why there wouldn't be a record about him.

MR HATTINGH: Indeed, yes Mr Chairman. Mr de Kock, the deceased, Mr Brian Ngqulunga, was initially an askari who was connected to Vlakplaas, is that correct?

... any more".  At no state was he present during the operation.  He was, however, aware that the person would be killed if not recruited as an ...

... me. We were in the epicentre of the Harms Commission and the earthquakes that followed. And to inform you, we also eliminated Brian Ngqulunga, an askari from Vlakplaas, because it seemed as if he wanted to walk over to the ANC's side. And in this case it was about the protection of the members ...

MR MOSIANE: Chairperson at that time I was an askari. I was under the control of the South African Police Services, under C1 Unit, which was in Head Quarters.

... 3, on page 2 of Exhibit M, that during 1989, Col de Kock informed you that an operation was being planned in Swaziland and that the plan was for an askari from Vlakplaas, whose name you can no longer recall, to make contact with persons in Swaziland. Is that ...

MR HUGO: Did Mr De Kock at any stage indicate an Askari or

MR HATTINGH: Was he a police member or a so called Askari?

... stage. Early in 1982 he was busy with investigation work and the finding of terrorists in the Soweto region. He received information from a new Askari who handed himself over to the police after he received training ...

MR LOTZ: After he had returned two other people, Faku, Shepherd who was an Askari and Duka were in the vehicle ...[intervention]