askari

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...