askari

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 ...

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 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 ...

MR NKOSI: No, I didn't know his name. And during our arrest in 1988, Webster was separated from us and during the trial in Delmas Webster, according to the information I got, he was a State witness who ended up working with the police, who ended up being an Askari member.

... 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 ...

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.

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?

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?

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

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: That is correct. You also say in your statement that afterwards there was identification by means of an askari, is it of that person?

... 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?

... from home. It is through your work, in fact after her disappearance reports were carried in the South African media suggesting that she was now an askari, and therefore the family and the ANC, many in the ANC lived in the belief that she had deserted the ANC to work for the enemy, it is through ...

MS PATEL: Well perhaps your understanding of the term askari is not the normal understanding that we have here of an askari being a turned liberation or MK, PAC person who would then be turned and then used by the Security Forces against the liberation movements, but I'll take it no further.

MR VAN RENSBURG: I think that one was an askari who had formally served at Vlakplaas. I would imagine but I'm not certain. I think so, but I suspect that I may be mistaken, he may have come after me to Port Elizabeth, he doesn't really ring a bell in my mind but during the amnesty hearing I was ...

... and unsatisfactory. He said that what he was trying to convey in his statement of 2 October 1997 was that he only became aware of the name "askari" after the killing. This explanation is plainly contradicted by what is stated in the statement which is quoted in the preceding paragraph. ...

MR BIZOS: We are discussing this case, that is why we believe that introducing examples of other situations like the askari. The askari may be between the devil and the deep blue sea. He may have to go to jail if he doesn't listen to his captors or - but we are dealing with these particular ...