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.

... 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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

... 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, ...

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 ...

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

... than me. That is when the squabble started, then he started threatening me. I assaulted him. He told me that he is a member of the ANC, he is an ...

MR LAX: No, they apprehended him at a pharmacy with an askari.

... in specific tasks, but what I am not prepared to do under any circumstances is to disclose the identity of any informer, whether the person was an askari or whether the person was an informer, whatever the case may be, I am not prepared to do so, because it will jeopardise those persons, and I ...

... was not in accordance with the planning and he realised something must have gone wrong. He rushed to the scene and found that two MK members, one askari and six civilians were wounded. He met one of the askaris who pointed out the vehicle used by the MK soldiers and on looking into it, did not ...

MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, he was the person who had identified Charles Ndaba to the Durban placed askari unit and after Charles Ndaba had been arrested, he identified somebody else and between the two of them they exposed the entire Vula operation. After that, as a result of information that I had ...

... operations included Reindeer, May 1978; Septic, June 1980; Protea, August- September 1981; Daisy, October and November 1981, Supa, March 1982 and Askari, December ...

MR MOHLABA: Are you saying that in this particular case, you had a source which provided you with information, which source was not security officer or an Askari, is that correct?

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 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.

ADV LAMEY: So you were a permanent force member or permanent member of the police from the time that you joined the police, you weren’t an Askari?

... who had been the Commissar at Catengue camp. When he was sent back into the country he immediately reported to his handlers, and became the first Askari. Pharoah Mogale had been a political instructor at the camp, and was later deployed to the Youth Secretariat at HQ in Lusaka. Another ...