askari

... to join the SAP and to become involved in the struggle against his fellow ANC colleagues. Notwithstanding all efforts, Mavuso refused to become an askari. According to the applicant he saw no evidence of any assault on Mavuso and no such assaults occurred during the 10 days while he was under ...

CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR VISSER: Thank you Mr Chairman. Mr Ramatala, I'm just interested to know, in 1987 were you an askari or were you a policeman?

When were you given a description of the Askari’s from Vlakplaas who were with these men?

MR DANDALA: What I was trying to explain here is that there is this word askaris. I did not know it. I used to know the word trained terrorist. Trained terrorist. I got to know the word askari after they were killed. I mean after the killing of Ndondo.

MR CALLAGHAN: That is the only reason. I understand Mr Malan's question in that I was housed while seconded to Koevoet, in the askari prisoner of war camp and so it would have been common practice to have brought them back to that camp and having turned them. I don't know why in this incident ...

... possibly true". It would follow in these proceedings the Committee finds itself in a situation where we've essentially got the, let's call it the Askari version and we've go the Port Elizabeth version, and the two versions cannot, there is a conflict between them, to some extent. Of course ...

MR LAMEY: And it was in that capacity as an askari that you got involved with these two incidents that are before the Committee?

After becoming an Askari he was sent on different missions under the command of a Security Police Officer. While being in Durban he was ordered by Major Andy Taylor to accompany Nicholas Dube, Mshengu Mavuso, Mike Lembede, Spyker Myeza and Mgabazi to petrol bomb two houses.

MR KOOPEDI: I've seen your application form or rather the statement you submitted to the Amnesty Committee, you referred to him as an askari?

So this thing made me to be very much suspicious that there might be a relationship between these two people but then I also had some reservations about Temba’s information since I got the information that he is a very dangerous person and he is also an Askari.

Mr Snyders, I would just like to clear up a few aspects with you. On page 265 you say the askari arrived - that's in the second paragraph.

MR PIGOU: No, I understand that Senior Superintendent Dempsey but a witness of this importance, an Askari who had been inside the house of Mrs Mandela for some time, providing you with invaluable information - some of the notes that you’ve provided us include hand-written notes about instructions ...

... of Mr Maharaj hit as far as Lucky is concerned is yes, he was an informer, yes, we say that in paragraph (d) at page 23, but he had become an askari and the moment a person is an askari, it's an open secret now who he is because he's registered as an askari at Head Office. There is no ...

Do you know anything about him being an askari? Have you ever heard about an askari? Have you ever heard the word askari? --- These were the names that were used where they were.

... Vlakplaas I hadfour sections under my command. These normally consisted of twoWhite members, one commanding officer, and then the group calledthe Askari's who were terrorist who had turned to work for theSecurity Branch. If another division, unit or sections elsewherein the country needed this ...

MR NGO: I never went back there. I left it there and left the firearm of the askari with the askari.

MS MBETHE: You mean those - we don't know. What I know is that one of them was a fellow who had become an askari.

MR FIVAZ: Mr Chairman, I heard the applicant state that in his application, and I also heard that he referred to askaris. I know for a fact that the applicant is the only one, him and Andy Taylor that worked on the askari farm similar to the one at Vlakplaas, here at Natal at Stanger. I was at ...

MS MBETHE: You mean those - we don't know. What I know is that one of them was a fellow who had become an askari.

... country they used to turn the boys to make them work for them. First of all, they would get information from them and then he would be called an, "Askari". I used to read those kind of things from newspapers and I did become suspicious but all the time when I tried to ask him he never explained ...