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KoevoetExplanation ... 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 ... MS LOCKHAT: You are an old Koevoet member, Mr Pienaar, is that correct? MR BIZOS: They are not zealots, it may be the person who has killed lots of people in Koevoet may become psychopathic and may become a zealot and become a professional killer but there is non of that here. So that it's really the balancing of motive that is important. Balancing the facts in order ... MR BIZOS: They are not zealots, it may be the person who has killed lots of people in Koevoet may become psychopathic and may become a zealot and become a professional killer but there is non of that here. So that it's really the balancing of motive that is important. Balancing the facts in order ... ... phrase, by the South African government, when being arrested as a so-called illegal immigrant into the military. That eventually sent him off to Koevoet, which eventually sent him off to the Police Intelligence System and as he explained, by that stage he was in a position where if he tried to ... ... August to November 1983 and I refer to page 643 of Bundle 1(c), you were at the Security Branch in Oshakati and after that you were transferred to Koevoet in South-west Africa where you were under the command of Mr Nortje, is that correct, in that ... MR LOADER: ... whom you say you believed to be an ex-member of Koevoet and was a Mozambican, came to fetch you at Vlakplaas. There's already been some dispute at a rather later stage following the evidence of Mr Pretorius, as to whether or not Mr Olifant went to collect you or whether he didn't. ... 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? MR VAN DEN BERG: They knew each other since their Koevoet days. ... One of the reasons being that I had a problem with nepotism, which was actually a form of incest so to speak. And there are some of the Koevoet members who would support me in this. The withdrawal of funds, the construction of weapons stockpiling locations where funds would be taken ... ... was on the basis that this is an umbrella issue which covers all the aspects. It covers not only the London bomb, it covers even aspects of Koevoet which again we say we fail to see the relevance of. But Mr Chairman, certainly I'm going to have to discuss this with General Coetzee. It ... ... in annexures for your convenience as Commissioners. In April 1992, we had the 32 Battalion deployed in the area. The 32 Battalion is known to be Koevoet, people who do not know what a human being is. The difficulty that we had is explained in Annexure ... MR LAMEY: You would also like to place it on record that you were with Colonel De Kock in Koevoet in the struggle in the former South West Africa, and that you followed De Kock to Vlakplaas more or less a year later, and that the continuation of the struggle at Vlakplaas, or you saw that as a ... ... associated with the political objective, you set out your background on page 174, from when you joined the police, from where you joined Koevoet in 1980, you returned in 1984, you worked under Craig Williamson and until up to where you left Vlakplaas at the end of 1987. Do you ... ... Later that morning we went to Cradock. One of the members of the PE Security Branch accompanied us. He went in his own car. He had come from Koevoet and I assumed that it was - that Sakkie van Zyl at that stage was a Captain. In Cradock we went to Henry Fouche who was the Security Branch ... ... as if not having authorised the specific actions. It is submitted that the actions of units of Vlakplaas, Koevoet and other counter-insurgency units were silently if not directly authorised by the government, and were used outside the normal system to form part of the government’s ... ... dit vir al die dinge wat ons saam gedoen het, vir al die dinge wat ons saam gedoen het", now that Mr Chairman, includes the time that they spent in Koevoet in Namibia. It can therefore never be said that he donated that stand to Nortje as compensation for his participation in this particular ... MR POTGIETER: That is correct. I was the Information or Intelligence Officer of the Koevoet Unit. MR HATTINGH: Initially in his statement, Mr Potgieter says that he has a clear recollection of yourself and van Niekerk together and he specifically remembers van Niekerk because he saw him the last time in Koevoet. Where were you and van Niekerk together in the presence of Colonel Potgieter? ... phrase, by the South African government, when being arrested as a so-called illegal immigrant into the military. That eventually sent him off to Koevoet, which eventually sent him off to the Police Intelligence System and as he explained, by that stage he was in a position where if he tried to ... |
