askari

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... have a problem about that, they wanted to know why I was associating myself with him. I think this is what led them calling me an informer, an askari or ...

"At a later stage, an askari, Jimmy Mbane, informed us that he had arranged that the Khubeka woman would be brought to us at the old Railway Police shooting range near Winkelspruit."

... 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 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.

... 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...