askari

CHAIRPERSON: Was this informer, Mr Mathebula, an askari?

... could recall. The evidence of de Kock and others and that of the fifth applicant, S.J. Visser, as to whether Msibi was eventually turned into an Askari differs substantially. It is however clear that De Kock’s association with Msibi had come to an end much earlier than that of S.J. Visser and ...

MR NIEUWOUDT: I cannot remember that, the only Askari that I knew who was present was Moss whom I knew personally.

... 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 ...

BRIG CRONJE: Johannes Mnisi was a former askari at Vlakplaas and he decided to rejoin the ANC. He then went into exile in Botswana and from there he launched and planned a variety of terrorist activities, he was one of the main planners of, for instance, the Church Street Bomb. According to ...

MR LAMEY: The gist of that without going into detail, is that you were, when you became a member of the Security Police, you became what they called an askari to distinguish you from original police members because you'd been previously a member of the ANC and MK, is that correct?

De Kock further states that he is not aware of a conversation about an askari who had to be killed which, according to Daniel Lionel Snyman, took place in the canteen before the murder of the deceased.  (Snyman's evidence will be dealt with below).  Snyman claims that in the said ...

... information. The ANC is convinced that both Solly Smith and Francis Meli were poisoned in order to silence them. The truth about the death of askari "September" (Glory Sidebe), the poisoning of Thami Zulu, the death of "Fear" (Edward Lawrence) in 1988, and the extent to which poisons have ...

According to the evidence that is before you this applicant was given information by his superiors and the information was that the deceased was an askari, an institution well known to the - acting on the other side of the ANC and uMkhonto weSizwe. It is my further submission, Chairperson, that ...

MR VISSER: As far as one can piece the evidence together, it seems that Mr Sikhakane was probably recruited as an informer who later became an askari during approximately 1988 and this happened, this must have happened prior to, perhaps you know about that, the abduction and the elimination of Mr ...

... 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 ...

... working and seconded to the, or incorporated within the ranks of the South African Police at that stage. He was then an operative and known as an askari at Vlakplaas, they worked under extraordinary circumstances, they were subjected to harsh regimens of discipline, they worked in circumstances ...

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 CORNELIUS: Did you know it was an Askari?

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 ...

MR TSOLO: He was an askari, Chairperson.

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 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.

MR CORNELIUS: Did you know it was an Askari?