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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?

MR MKHWANAZI: It was not as easy because the Security Forces had deployed Askaris around and these Askari members are people with whom we trained, they knew me. They could easily identify me, pinpoint me, shoot me or get me arrested. That was after the ANC was unbanned.

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. ...

... the infiltration route from Botswana that the Chand house was the only route into the country from Botswana. Mr Ras has stated that there was an askari from the Lichtenburg incident, who had come through that route who they didn't seek to, or he couldn't recollect whether they had spoken to ...

MR HATTINGH: Mr Nkala, as an askari at Vlakplaas your work procedure was that you would go out to a certain area for some three weeks, you would then return to Vlakplaas and then you would be given off the last week of the month, is that correct?

... that you were supposed to have had with - which Radebe talks of, surely there must have been some type of explanation given to Radebe - he's not an askari, he's more a policeman at Vlakplaas, as to why he had to actually hand in the package when you could hand it in yourself. ...(transcriber's ...

MR CHOANE: The ten code is an askari, he's a person who betrayed the movement, it's a person who betrays his own comrades, so I never wanted to indulge myself in such activities.

... 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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?

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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."

MR BELLINGAN: Piet was an Askari, who had a close relationship with Brigadier MacIntyre, who drew him to Stratcom when we were at Maritime House.

... 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 ...