askari

Both Sibiya and Mpho were eager to obtain further military training abroad and expressed this wish to the Askari Joe Mamasela. This enabled Mamasela to kidnap them. They were driven to a farm in the vicinity of Pienaarsrivier where they were interrogated, severely assaulted and tortured. In the ...

... who Nxiweni was and the operation that he had been involved in, but she wasn't prepared to give her full cooperation as an informer or as an askari, is that ...

MR MAPOMA: You see I'm asking this question because there is a statement which was made in the Human Rights Violations Committee, which suggested that a certain Victor, who was an askari, gave information to the South African Police about the car that was going to travel there.

MR KENDALL: As far as I knew Joe Mamasela was an Askari who had been transferred from Vlakplaas to Division Northern Transvaal.

... is that members from the specific region would say "We have a certain person or certain persons in this area, we're looking for such and such an askari" and then that person would specifically be mentioned by name, that they required that person who would perhaps know the persons that they had ...

... there someone else from the PAC who applied for amnesty, is there somebody from, one of my colleagues who said all right, we in fact, there was no Askari or anyone involved over there, there was quite simply the Negroid hair was introduced in the forensic laboratory, then that would have been ...

MR DE KOCK: That is correct. Yes, and furthermore the askari Unit of Natal, just like we had to focus on crime, they also had to focus on crime, but it was askaris who caught Charles Ndaba and other members of the ANC who had been involved in Operation Vula.

MR PRINSLOO: I could have, Chairperson, but after my conversation with him and my questioning of him, I had already come to a decision that he was a possible askari, that I could possibly turn his head.

MR DE KOCK: No Chairperson, I did not know about that. As far as I knew, Ndaba was not an informer, Ndaba was identified by an askari under the command of Col Taylor, that is how he was captured. After he was captured, he in turn pointed out Tshabalala. Furthermore this took place in secrecy, ...

... Commissioner, he went to the police. I think he then revealed the whole story and the escort had him safely back to South Africa and he became the askari that he ...

... of his colleagues.  He was a sergeant and worked under the command of Hechter.  He and Joe Mamasela, a former member of MK who was turned an askari, worked very closely with Hechter and were involved in many illegal operations.  The three (3) of them worked together as a team.  What ...

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.

... a member of the Pan Africanist Congress. The reason why this person would have to be killed, was because he would be able to identify the "Askari" who had furnished Fivaz with information. According to the applicant the plans involved members of the Reaction Unit who would penetrate the ...

MR HATTINGH : According to your experience, is this the person who would be suitable for use as an askari, would he be willing to leave everything there and to go and live at Vlakplaas and be of assistance with the identification of terrorists?

Towards that end, perhaps I should start with what I've seen occurring just in the last sitting. We had - the former chap here was an askari, who I believed left the ANC because, by his own admission, he didn't necessarily participate in the physical beating, but maybe violated rights of ...

The applicant instructed Joe Mamasela, an Askari member of the Security Police, to infiltrate the ANC and to find out whether they were awaiting weaponry to be used against the police. He was instructed not to influence them to ask for weapons but those asking for weapons would be supplied with ...

CHAIRPERSON: And it was then that the askari, the deceased, entered the canteen and you could see that he had been drinking as well.

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

... of the ANC who was deployed inside the country. He was arrested and turned by the South African Police to work for them, namely, to operate as an askari. The Applicants had also received information that the deceased was frequently seen in soweto. He was usually in the company of Joe ...

... 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. ...