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MR JANSEN: Just to mention this briefly, the incident was also about an askari, but he was not connected to Vlakplaas, he worked for the Bophuthatswana Police.

I couldn't necessarily send my Askaris in because if I was going to send an Askari member in, he would have to be a PAC member and he would be identified by the PAC. The Botswana border patrol or police patrol residing in that community would have arrested this foreign person.

MR BOSCH: I cannot recall whether it was then or at a later stage, but Mr Hugh Lugg who was sitting there, who was also an askari, I took him outside so that he should not see what was going on.

"When I was recruited to join CCB, a certain person who had been left with me in East London, identified himself as an askari and told me about the activities of askaris and their cooperation with the SAP and Transkei Police Force."

CHAIRPERSON: You simply took them in and your askari personnel would identify them?

... 300 kilometres north of Ovamboland since 1984. "When South Africa withdrew from Southern Angolan territory it had captured and big operation Askari between '83 and February '84." So, you know, this was the time where there was this to-ing and fro-ing of South African forces and ...

MS BUTHELEZI: He spoke about Ngono, I spoke about Betty and there's nothing that would make me say Ngono was an enemy agent or an askari or whatever you want me to say. I don't believe it, I don't think he could just like Betty. The arrest of Mr Ngono did not lead to any mass arrest. His contact ...

Applicant was an MK soldier who had been kidnapped and became an askari. He was ordered to identify members of MK who came back to the RSA after they had received training abroad. His commander at Vlakplaas was Captain De Kock.

... severe torture was afflicted, where the people in fact died and he has not hidden one fact, especially in the matter of Moses Ntalang, who was an askari who was murdered in the canteen at Vlakplaas. That was I think it's a case that really tried his credibility to the utmost. ...

ADV BOOYENS: That is the askari?

MR HATTINGH: And that he had threatened to disclose that information if he was not appointed as a policeman because he was still an askari?

MS BUTHELEZI: He spoke about Ngono, I spoke about Betty and there's nothing that would make me say Ngono was an enemy agent or an askari or whatever you want me to say. I don't believe it, I don't think he could just like Betty. The arrest of Mr Ngono did not lead to any mass arrest. His contact ...

... 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 ...

... commander involved in "Operation Vula" and according to Botha a double agent and police informer handled by him (Botha). Ndaba was arrested by an askari, Vusi Ninela, who did not know that he was an informer. Botha after the arrest informed his co-Applicants of the status of Ndaba as an ...

MR HATTINGH: The askari by the name of Mndam, can you give more information about the question whether he is still alive or not?

... instructions were only given with regards to the executing of this operation and nothing to do with the motivation for the operation. He was an Askari at that ...

Mr Visser, what I had forgotten to ask you is, Mnisi, was he an askari or what was he?

... free to carry on with operations, he knew the Security Police officers who took part in his interrogation, he refused to become an informant or an askari, to cooperate, MK would have become aware of information which Lubane had given to the Security Police. ...

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.

... 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 ...