askari

... He unlocked the canteen where they continued their drinking spree and playing billiards. At that stage the deceased, who had been working as an askari at Vlakplaas for about seven months had not reported to duty for some time. So much so that he had missed a deployment duty. due to his ...

MR MOSIANE: At that time Chairperson, I was employed as an askari in C1 Section at the Police Head Quarters.

MR CORNELIUS: Magopa, Chris Magopa, was he an askari?

CHAIRPERSON: May I on a question of clarity, so that I don't have to come back on this issue again, find out how long did it take Mosiane and the other askari to get to this person, try and infiltrate and bring this person to the safehouse in this assaulted condition?

MR HUGO: But that you were attached to Vlakplaas, not in the capacity of an askari, but that you were a regular member of the Police, as it was then known?

MR MSIBI: Those are blue lies. I only heard about the Askari reports here. I don't even know what the meaning of that word is, I don't even know whence it came from.

MR MALAN: Mr Olifant, did you join Vlakplaas as an askari?

MR BELLINGAN: The askaris, whether they were in Cape Town or wherever, if he meets up with a MK member in Bophuthatswana or wherever, it does not matter. An askari could be identified anywhere in the country by returned MK exiles, so (end of tape 1A) it was not such a major crisis.

CHAIRPERSON: Well, after your return to Vlakplaas, did you continue with your duties as an Askari in Vlakplaas?

is correct, but I submit that it would have changed the whole complexion of the evidence of Mr Nofomela and the evidence of Mr Coetzee, if a further askari had now decided to come forward after he had first put up the version that he was told to put up by Vlakplaas, Mr Chairman. Mr Chairman, ...

MR CORNELIUS: Did you know it was an Askari?

ADV PRIOR: And his title was given on our information that he was the Commander. Then there was Linda Mone, also known as Stan Mone, he was an askari and he was a State witness.

... evidence that he has given today was a simple version and that is basically that in the light of the position that he occupied at Vlakplaas as an askari, he only received information to go to Soutpan, he would receive his further instructions there. When he arrived there he received further ...

until 1986. On the day in question, he and Jimmy Mbane were deployed at the taxi rank at the Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. They were both former askaris who had been appointed as members of the South African Police. They were in search of liberation force operatives or illegal arms. At some ...

MS LOCKHAT: So you were an askari, abducted by the South African Police, and you regarded yourself as a soldier after that. Can you comment on that?

... arrested in January 1987, soon after his return to South Africa. After being held in custody and allegedly being tortured, he agreed to become an askari. He was based at Vlakpaas under Col De Kock. He had come to Durban as part of operations to identify and arrest other MK and APLA ...

MR CORNELIUS: Did you know it was an Askari?

Lastly Mr Chairman, just a remark which was made by you to Mr Ngubane, regarding askaris. An askari per definition of our past, was a person who had previously been a member or supporter of the ANC or another liberation movement, who had been turned to use that expression and who was applied ...

MR LAMEY: Oh, that's correct, Mr Chairman. I just want to put it to you that his recollection is that he knew, as an Askari, or let me put it this way first, shortly before the explosion took place that night, he was involved for the first time at Vlakplaas, and he was told at a meeting as to ...

before us the purpose of the meeting was to confront him with allegations that he made common cause with one Sipho Pungola who was believed to be an askari and further that he was responsible for the death of one of the comrades and intimidated and robbed people. In the context of the then ...