Koevoet

Explanation
a police counter-insurgency unit set up in South West Africa in 1979 by members of the SAP Security Branch. It comprised recruits mostly from the local population who were trained as a mobile unit to gather intelligence, track guerrillas and kill them. Koevoet (Afrikaans for 'crowbar') soon gained a reputation for brutality, largely because of its methods of interrogating and torturing local people and for its heavy-handed presence in the operational areas. In the early to mid-1980s, at the height of its war with SWAPO, Koevoet claimed a kill rate of around 300 to 500 people a year, for which its members were paid a bounty per corpse.

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 6 (22 August 2000)

MR SNYMAN: Yes, those are the arms that came from Koevoet's bases.

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Amnesty Hearing, Durban, Day 2 (27 July 1999)

... where it was necessary for me to plant these weapons on the scene. As standard procedure I did have a Makarov with me and I was also attached to Koevoet and some of the weapons came back with me. For a long time I worked in Bophuthatswana where in one year we arrested 18 ANC members and some ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Port Elizabeth, Day 1 (29 September 1997)

ADV FORD: Were you ever a member of Koevoet Mr Van Rensburg?

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 17 (07 December 2000)

MR POTGIETER: That is correct. I was the Information or Intelligence Officer of the Koevoet Unit.

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Amnesty Hearing, Durban, Day 3 (28 July 1999)

MR MOERANE: When you say you saw operations in South West-Africa, were you part of the Koevoet Unit?

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Amnesty Hearing, Johannesburg

... like,for instance, select units and battalions in the Namibian bushwar. A good example of this is for instance 32 battalion, specialforces and Koevoet as far as the police was concerned. ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 1 (12 July 1999)

... LAMEY: I'm asking you this question with the objective on future proceedings but my position is that a man like Mr Nortje who had been a soldier in Koevoet in Ovamboland that his capacities were applied at Vlakplaas and that he never underwent any reorientation programmes or received the sort of ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 1 (12 October 1999)

MR JANSEN: You came from Koevoet in the former South-West Africa at that time, in other words you were already part of the South African Security Police when you joined C1, is that correct?

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 2 (25 May 1999)

MR JANSEN: In your history at Koevoet and later on at Vlakplaas, did the authorities ever monitor in a structured or organised manner, the number of combat situations or exposure which the individual members had to conflict situations?

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 4 (22 February 2000)

... that but what's even more revealing was the fact that when Mr de Kock was asked about the strong personalities and the endurance abilities of koevoet members and Vlakplaas members, that he said Willie Nortje for instance, whom he regarded as one of the toughest operators, when he was put in ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 2 (15 February 2000)

Afterwards I went to fetch my medical case, the sort that doctors in the field would use and also the sort that we used with Koevoet in the field, which was fully equipped with intravenous equipment and so forth. I then attended to his injuries, I cleaned his facial wounds and also cleaned the ...

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