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that she was as unaware of the events and circumstances as she claims. Assault and murder of Themba Mabotha 81 Mr Themba Mabotha was allegedly an askari who absconded from Vlakplaas in 1988 and subsequently became an associate of the Mandela household. He was allegedly involved in the assaults ...

... allegedly responsible for the storage of weaponry, organising safe-houses and collecting intelligence on possible MK targets. 9. Two C1/Vlakplaas askaris, Xola Frank Mbane and one Dube, part of a C1 team under the command of Captain Adriaan David Baker working with the Port Natal Security ...

... from the Security Branch’s intelligence unit [AM5418/97]. Potgieter claims to have ‘turned’ many of the informers and/or askaris [‘turned’ guerrilla fighters] who assisted the Security Branch in Natal. Nair and Ndlovu were sentenced to twenty years, one was ...

... 342 On 23 September 1998, a further three people were killed by a farmer near Pondrift, Alldays. One person was arrested, and later became an askari. The victims were Mr Mzikayise Mgzangxeni, Mr Mkhatshane Johannes Shangaan and Mr Mark Mkoto; the investigating officer was Barend van der ...

... 20 November 1981, Mr Griffiths Mxenge15 was found dead at a cycling stadium at Umlazi. Three Vlakplaas operatives namely Commander Dirk Coetzee and askaris Almond Nofemela and David Tshikilange were charged and convicted of the killing. Two former Durban security policemen, Brigadier Johannes van ...

... version was presented in the form of an unsigned, typed section 29 detention statement from Mr Johannes ‘Themba’ Mabotha, a Vlakplaas askari who frequented the Mandela home, which states that he was present at a meeting when Richardson informed Madikizela-Mandela that he had killed ...

... with MK in Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania and Swaziland. On his return in 1989, he apparently surrendered to the police. He began working as an askari with the Natal Security Branch, under Colonel Andy Taylor. At some time during 1991, certain members of the Security Branch decided that ...

... over at Soutpansberg. They were Mr Abbram More, Mr Oupa Lukhele, Mr Alfred Nkosi, Mr Mlungisi Velaphi and Mr Daniel Nkabinde, accompanied by an askari who alerted the Security Branch to their presence. The group was rounded up, shot at, tortured and attacked with hand grenades. Some were ...

... the bed and a third member shot him dead. 356 Dubeni was arrested by Western Cape Security Branch members together with Vlakplaas operatives and askaris in Nyanga on 14 March 1987. Dubeni was believed by the police to have been responsible for armed actions in the Transkei in 1985, including a ...

... assistance of Vlakplaas. Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock deployed certain Vlakplaas personnel including Joe Coetzer, Riaan Bellingan and several askaris, including Gladstone Moss, Eric ‘Shakes Maluleke and Xola Frank ‘Jimmy’ Mbane. After a final briefing from De Kock at ...

... Brigadier JH Cronjé, Captain J Hechter and Captain PJ Janse van Vuuren. The Mofolo Three 419 Lieutenant Colonel Anton Pretorius [AM4389/96], askaris Moleke Peter ‘Frank’ Lengene [AM4033/96], Manuel Olifant [AM4032/96], Mr Sarel Petrus Nienaber [AM4391/96] and Captain Daniel ...

... SAP”. 47 Mr Leonard Mandla Nkosi, a former member of the Luthuli detachment and involved in the ‘Wankie campaign’3, became an askari after he was captured by the police and went on to testify against his former ‘comrades’ as a state witness in several trials. ...

... a note making an appointment for Ninela to meet them at the Pinetown post office on 13 June. He left to meet them and was never seen again. 320 Askari Ben Mwelase [AM6436/97] said in his amnesty application that he was involved in the abduction of a man from Pinetown post office while serving ...

... training in the ANC). They therefore killed him and buried him on a farm in the Elandskop area. Brian Ngqulunga10 Age 42; South African Police/askari. Killed 21 July 1990. Exhumed 16 March 1998 at Vlakplaas. Mr Brian Ngqulunga was a member of a team from Vlakplaas, led by Captain Dirk ...

Japie Maponya 293 Mr Japie Maponya [JB02090/03WR] was abducted by Vlakplaas askaris, interrogated and subsequently killed. Amnesty applicants included General JH le Roux [AM4148/96]; Colonel Eugene de Kock [AM0066/96] head of C1/Vlakplaas, Warrant Officer Willie A Nortjé [AM3764/96]; ...

... in Cala near the South African border by a unit involving SAP member Mbuso Enoch Shabalala, Transkei policeman Sergeant Gciniso Lamont Dandala and askaris Silulami Gladstone Mose and Xolelwa Virginia Shosha. He was shot dead. Within weeks, the then Transkei president Chief Kaiser Matanzima had ...

... an explosive device that had been attached to it. They were all members of the Port Elizabeth Security Branch, except for Charles Jack, who was an askari (a turned ANC/MK member) and also on the Security Branch payroll . 114. At the criminal trial, Nieuwoudt, Du Toit and Ras were convicted of ...

... Security Branch in Krugersdorp on 15 February 1982.37 The operation entailed detonating explosives in a pump-house on an abandoned mine where an askari, whom the youths believed to be an MK operative, had promised to give them basic military training. 82. The applicants were, by majority ...

... his feet dangling in the air, assaulted and subjected to the wet bag. This was conceded by Benzien. 204 Mr Bongani Jonas was shot in the legs by askari David Matamela Musimeke and Constable Patrick Siyali [AM7997/97] on his arrest in September 1987. Both femurs were shattered and he was ...

... base of the skull (see Volume Three). Mthetheleli Gcina 370 Mr Mthetheleli Gcina was shot dead in Gugulethu, Cape Town, on 27 September 1988 by askari Lucky ‘Agrippa’ Madubula and Mr David Musimeke. They said that an informer pointed out Mthetheleli to them while they were ...