askari

MR VISSER: Well, Mr Ngo said that you instructed them to go with the persons that I mentioned before, Mr Mamome, Mr Ramouseau and Mr Ngo, to Bloemfontein to go and help to go and collect the property of Askari members. Do you know anything about that?

... Security Branch, Colonel Roelf Venter, to institute a false claim following the "discover" of an arms cache.  The money was intended to pay an askari, Joe Mamasela, who played a major role in the activities of the Security Branch against political activists.  The Applicant is unable to ...

... Kock testified that Nieuwoudt only referred to three persons who had to be killed, namely two members of the Port Elizabeth Security Police and an askari. The specific people were unknown to de Kock. Nieuwoudt disputed this version and insisted that he referred to four persons. It is ...

... was a situation to be avoided. Due to the circumstances of that time, it was also necessary that the identity of Maponya's interrogators and the askari members be protected. All of us operated under strictly covert ...

The 1st Applicant instructed an askari from Vlakplaas, Ernest Ramatala, who worked under his command, to contact Bhila, pretending to be a member of MK and tell him that the ANC wanted him to leave the country.  The meeting was arranged and on 22 February 1987 Bhila was intercepted near ...

... of the ANC and an MK and also served as a bodyguard of the then President of the ANC, O.R. Tambo. The deceased defected from the ANC and turned askari and his activities were mainly focused around the borders of Botswana in particular the Ramatlabama and Zeerust border posts. He also ...

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?

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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

those times, ended up working with the enemy, getting money by killing people, therefore if I didn't want to collaborate with the enemy, becoming an askari, therefore meaning I would be killed. If you can remember very well, during those times some of the things that were happening were horrible. ...

... 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 ...

MR LAMEY: You also say that as a Vlakplaas Askari member you were not in a position to verify, to question the instruction in this instance?

MR LOOTS: Piet was an MK Commander in Botswana, he became disillusioned with the ANC and became an askari later. He was in control of weaponry in Botswana and when he had returned, he had 10 metal containers which were filled with weapons and ammunition, hand grenades and explosives which he ...

... no right or jurisdiction there in the independent countries, we could not work there and I know that Bophuthatswana's Security Branch had their own askari unit. So I don't know why we would have gone there because we were not allowed to work ...

... harassment which would suggest any attempt to assassinate him. Yes, they probably wanted to plant weapons, as he has stated in his evidence, an Askari wanted to plant weapons at his house, yes, they were searching for weapons, the soldiers came in, harassing his parents' home and harassing ...

... Branch and members of Murder and Robbery Unit and we exchanged information. I recruited more sources and informers and I also learnt of a PAC Askari in custody, he was serving a sentence at Diepkloof Prison, Julius Xhosa. He worked for Soweto Security when this unfortunate incident took ...

MR LAMEY: Furthermore, as far as you know the beer was tested on an askari.

... who was the most senior member of C1 present, had discussed the matter with certain members of the West Rand Division, it was decided that an Askari approach the Deceased on the pretence that he was an MK cadre wanting to meet with Odirile Maponya.  The 7th Applicant was sent to talk to ...

... 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 ...