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Operation Zero Zero

Explanation
Eight young activists were killed and at least seven were injured in explosions involving booby-trapped hand grenades in Duduza, KwaThema and Tsakane, Tvl, on 26 June 1985. The zero-timed grenades had been provided by a Vlakplaas operative purporting to be an MK operative. The operation, codenamed 'Zero Zero', had been authorised by the Minister of Law and Order. Fifteen Security Branch operatives, including the head of the Security Branch and other senior personnel, were granted amnesty for the operation.

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ADV SIGODI: The way you understood the whole operation, in your opinion I just want to know what would you have done as that group if you had found partly ANC and partly IFP motor vehicle?
CHAIRPERSON: And Thami was along on that operation, all the time?
MR MKWANAZI: There are other things as well. He said we should not fight back because the people of the hostel were angry, they wanted to fight the police. He told us to come down and give our co-operation.
... act on his own initiative.  Accordingly, he decided to provide the necessary assistance and thus ordered the other Applicants to carry out the ...
... found themselves competing for support and resources and thereby increased the hostility between them rather than the co-ordination and ...
... injuries. They immediately left the scene and drove to the house of the trade unionist some kilometres away. There they repeated the same operation. He heard somebody screaming and one of his colleagues fired a few shots in the direction of the house before they ran away and drove ...
In consequence of these activities of the SDU, the applicant was at some time during the operation of the SDU in unlawful possession of a firearm and an undetermined amount of ammunition.
commanders they should have went further and questioned: "Why do you instruct us to do certain things, tell us the policy which supports the type of operation which you want us to engage in." Mr Chairman, it has been made very clear here that they were not allowed to ask such ...
MR BLOSE: No, not at all. That was mainly to avoid the leakage of information and also to protect the operation so everything was compartmentalised.
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