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KoevoetExplanation ... human rights violations as chief interrogator of the Security Branch. He was, moreover, the founder of an anti-terrorist unit which later became Koevoet. 165 On 16 June, Swanepoel was drafted to Soweto. He later said, “Soweto at that time was completely under-policed. They could not ... ... the purpose of the exercise appears to have been the systematic selective destruction of such documentation. In 1993, it was revealed that all Koevoet records had disappeared while in transit between Windhoek and Pretoria.27 93 By May 1994, a massive deletion of state documentary memory ... severe ill treatment falling within the Commission’s mandate: a SADF soldiers or SAP members acting as soldiers (for example members of the Koevoet Unit) who were killed or seriously injured in combat (during, for example, the Namibian and Angolan ‘border wars’) and Umkhonto ... ... control of the war. 1976 saw the beginning of Security Branch special operations under the codename ‘K’, which later developed into Koevoet. 100 Security legislation underwent a process of consolidation with the passing of the Internal Security Amendment Act, effectively ... ... To a large extent, Vlakplaas owed its existence to the SAP’s experience first with the Selous Scouts in Rhodesia and then with setting up Koevoet in South West Africa. 125 In 1978, MK began attacks in the PWV (Pretoria, Witwatersrand and Vereeniging region) and western Transvaal. The ... ... 82 The fifth period falls between 1980 and 1988. From around 1980, the nature of the war began to change. South Africa increasingly relied on Koevoet, a newly-formed special police counter-insurgency unit, which became notorious for its human rights abuses during its pursuit operations. A ... ... should not be dismissed when attempting to explain South Africa’s conduct in the region. It finds it difficult to believe, for example, that Koevoet would have been allowed to operate on a bounty basis, or that the SADF would have killed over 600 people, many of them children and women, ... ... of the enemy was that it [consisted of] people on the other side of the colour line. Mr John Deegan, conscript in the SAP and former member of Koevoet 38 Mr Deegan gave detailed testimony to the Commission about his initial involvement with the Security Police and his subsequent life in ... ... involved in defending the apartheid status quo. Mr John Deegan, a South African Police (SAP) Security Branch conscript and later a member of Koevoet, described his attempts to communicate his traumatic experiences to his more conservative father: Although I tried to tell him that there ... ... not a bunch of ex-soldiers getting together, having a braaivleis and swapping bush stories. What it is, is SWAPO, ANC, APLA, Umkhonto weSizwe, Koevoet, ‘Reccies’, all the units, every single unit, everybody who ever was trained in any way militarily getting together and just ... ... the South African Police (SAP) investigation immediately after the crash; “James†(real name withheld to protect his identity), former Koevoet member and subsequent MI officer. 6 The Commission’s Investigation Unit interviewed many others in an attempt to arrive at the ... ... Masculinity intertwined with militarism jointly act as constituents of potentially lethal forms of egotism. Here again is Mr John Deegan, later a Koevoet operative, talking about police training. Apart from fear, discipline and propaganda there was also pride. Pride was also worked into the ... ... did what I was trained to do.†In some camps, members of the SADF were given monetary incentives to carry out military objectives. At the Koevoet camp, they were paid for killing and recovering weapons from the enemy. This was a great motivating factor as the men could double or triple ... Intelligence Service (NIS), Joint Management Centres (JMCs), the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) – a euphemism if ever there was one – Koevoet, Vlakplaas, the Roodeplaat Research Laboratory, the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), C10, Stratcom and others that may yet be unearthed. ... ... stress reactions, and take to heavy bouts of drinking and drug-taking: but these are consequences. 90 An extract from the written statement of Koevoet member Mr John Deegan states: I really had bad dreams … I have dreams of bodies, or parts of bodies … like an arm … this ... ... infiltrating networks, in interrogations and in giving evidence for the state in trials. 166. A large number of white C1 operatives were drawn from Koevoet, the SAP Special Task Force or had specific counter- insurgency experience. Several had explosives training while a small number were former ... |
