askari

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 ROBERTSHAW: I saw him, he was an askari. Hatiso Kadi was an askari and he often came to Ladybrand.

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 ...

MR MOLEFE: That is correct and from the evidence it appears that he in actual fact crossed sides in that he apparently became an Askari. This particular person apparently also had a lot to do with this particular incident in that he's the one who provided Mr Toka with the intelligence report. ...

... co-operate, basically confirming the information at his disposal.  He immediately formed the opinion that the Deceased could be recruited as an Askari.  He did not proceed with the paperwork for the arrest and after questioning him for much of the night, the next day took him to the farm, ...

... they hope that it will be known not only in this room, but in public as well, especially where they live in KwaMashu, that Mr Dion Cele was not an askari or an informer, because all along they've been harassed by the community they live in because there were those rumours that Mr Dion Cele was ...

Visser also testified that Sedibe was abducted with a view to converting him into an askari (converted agent) whilst Deetlef's' version was that their aim was simply to extract information from him. It was clear from the evidence that Sedibe eventually supplied information although it was in all ...

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 ...

MR DE KOCK: Yes, Mr Chairperson. They were caught in a roadblock on their way to attack an ANC house in Gaborone. It came from an askari, or no, sorry, not an askari but from a terrorist or ANC MK member that we caught in Durban that morning. He was caught by members of Vlakplaas. That MK ...

say that he knew Webster as an intelligence operative who worked under Toka and when they were arrested Webster became a state witness, and later an askari. He was subsequently killed for having betrayed his comrades. Nkosi also testified that he does not know why a handgrenade was used because ...

... is that members from the specific region would say "We have a certain person or certain persons in this area, we're looking for such and such an askari" and then that person would specifically be mentioned by name, that they required that person who would perhaps know the persons that they had ...

MR HATTINGH: Mr Nortje, let us put this in short, is it not correct that Chris Magopa, before he became an askari, that he was a member of the PAC?

... referred to Exhibit N, neither can it be denied that South African troops were fighting Cuban Fapla forces close to Lubango, which was Operation Askari at Kuvelai(?) from December 1983 to April 1984, as was admitted by Mr Marius ...

... from him whether he has any information which he may well have because we know the history of Johannes Mnisi. After his arrest he later became an Askari and he then absconded and fled again through Swaziland, I believe it was - I'm not sure about that but he fled and rejoined MK so it may be, ...

MR DU PLESSIS: And you will agree with me that Mr Beeslaar's function amongst others was to deal with all the paperwork and administrative work with regard to Mr Mngomezulu if he should become an askari?

... me, that police had been brought from Pretoria and Krugersdorp. And it was common knowledge at that time that there was also a group of so-called Askari’s who were Zulu speaking. Who people in Guguletu and KTC, Crossroads referred to as INKATHA, who were operating in the area as ...

... to urinate over me because they said I am a dog, that is what you do to a dog. Major Pretorius was laughing at me, and he told one of the askaris, "Fetch a limpet mine, then we blow him away." He said to me that they could put me into a car and detonate the limpet and it would look ...

MR DE KOCK: Mr Chairperson we killed people. I'm now talking about a former member of the ANC, an askari, who then later became a policeman, Ngulunga, when it appeared from Gen van Rensburg that this person made contact with the ANC, he already made contact with them, then we killed him. We are ...

MR HATTINGH: Very well. Whatever the case may be you took a group of so-called askaris with you and then there was also at least one of which we know and for which we are acting, Mr Simon Radebe, who was not an askari but a member of the South African Police, he also accompanied you.

MR KENDALL: As far as I knew Joe Mamasela was an Askari who had been transferred from Vlakplaas to Division Northern Transvaal.