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 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. ...

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 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 ...

... went with me to Unit D. For example Brian Nxqulunga was not transferred to Unit D or to Vlakplaas at that time whereas Pete Mogai was - another Askari. And then there was another one, Edgar, another Askari who worked with us, who, if I am not mistaken, was transferred to ...

... 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. ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

CHAIRPERSON: Yes. He's turning into an askari.

... that I made in that brief time and which I found in the person that Sydney was. And I just want to tell the family that Sydney Msibi was not an askari, he was also not a traitor. And I believe that due to the background that I have accumulated in guerrilla warfare over 24 years, I have the ...

... to be in work that's going to be a misery in my life, and he said he was in the Harms Commission and there was another side which was called the askari. That was the time when I started seeing that he was not happy at all. All these things happened while he worked. He wanted to get married ...

All the Applicants except for Taylor who is deceased testified. The gist of their evidence is to the effect that Sikhakhane had become an "askari" during 1988 after defecting from the ANC who were apparently intent on sending him to Angola due to, inter alia, disciplinary problems. Some of the ...

MR HATTINGH: Goodwill Sikhakane was an askari who worked with Col Taylor in Durban?

They apply for amnesty for the following incident: The kidnapping and murder on the 19th July 1990 of a certain Brian Ngqulunga who was an askari and subsequently became a member of the South African Police.

... of his colleagues.  He was a sergeant and worked under the command of Hechter.  He and Joe Mamasela, a former member of MK who was turned an askari, worked very closely with Hechter and were involved in many illegal operations.  The three (3) of them worked together as a team.  What ...

... informer, since Security Headquarters had given me the order that we should bring the man to Pretoria where he should be used and employed as an ...

MR BEESLAAR: He was an Askari, he later became an officer in the force - I may be incorrect, but in ‘85 he died but there was a person by the name of Moss.

MR MOGOAI: Your Honour, as an askari I regarded all white officials as my seniors. I took instructions from all of them, because they regarded me as their subject, I had no choice.

MR HATTINGH : According to your experience, is this the person who would be suitable for use as an askari, would he be willing to leave everything there and to go and live at Vlakplaas and be of assistance with the identification of terrorists?