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KoevoetExplanation needed and he was a highly qualified source analyst, he had handled sources with the Diamond Section and he was a person who had rendered service in Koevoet, he had good combat record which he built up in Ovamboland. We had a qualified person if I may put it, as such, he was an ... MR SNYMAN: It could have been on the stage that they were involved in Koevoet and when he came to Pretoria. ... which must be gathered and further examined. The SADFs strategy, if there was one, regarding rape of enemy women must be researched. The notorious Koevoet Unit and other military personnel, including 32 Battalion have committed many reported rapes within a broader campaign of terror to subdue ... 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. ... ... us on the tours. They said: why could we not be good like the Afrikaans press or some of the tamer newspapers like The Citizen? I came back from a Koevoet tour and wrote that it was a ruthless killing force. And Lothar Neethling threatened to shoot me. He said: 'How can you call it a ruthless ... ... ourselves in investigations and exposing the role of the South African Defence Force in human rights violations in Namibia, in particular the Koevoet Battalion. We started and sponsored the New Nation Newspaper, as a means of allowing the voice of the oppressed people to be heard. The ... 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 ... very well. Capt Van Zyl was drafted into the Eastern Cape in the early 1980s to come and assist to deal with the troublesome activists. He was from Koevoet in Namibia - according to his own admission to myself - and a Capt Sakkie du Plessis and a team of security policemen which included Black ... ... aspect of the CCB's modus operandi was the use of cash as an incentive to produce. Thus like other hit squad or counter-insurgency units such as Koevoet and C10 CCB members were provided with a positive inducement to undertake actions would could and often did result in a gross violation of ... ... 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 ... CHAIRPERSON: Tell me, I just want to be fair to you Mr Cloete. I've heard many applications involving security policemen who were involved in special tasks like Vlakplaas, Koevoet, whatever. Is there any medical reason why many of your people seemed to suffer from amnesia? |
