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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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MR BOTHA: Here I specifically refer to operation butterfly which is the code name of an ANC operation
... the fence. The suspects were held at Piet Retief where they were detained in terms of Section 29 of the Internal Security Act. Through their co-operation large caches of arms were retrieved from Dead Letter Boxes. Acts of insurrection which had already been planned by MK were prevented. ...
While clearly, the operation described is unmitigated abuse, the next question that we need to ask is whether Mr Klopper committed any act or deed himself, which constitutes an offence or delict for the purposes of the act for which he could be prosecuted or sued. It is only if one takes his ...
... there is no enough evidence. Then I made some attempts to go to the station commander, but all these were in vain because I didn't get enough ...
... to proceed with the project. Coetzee testified that he cannot recall the incident but it is probable that he would have approved of such an operation if he had been ...
MR BOOYENS: In giving the details you tell the Committee about an operation in Swaziland where all the white members have been to and this operation did not succeed, you didn't get what you wanted, is that correct?
MR CORNELIUS: Did you participate in the operation and did you reconcile yourself with the operation?
MR CORNELIUS: Did you then receive any instruction to participate in an operation?
... dealt with without Brig Cronje having been present. He suffered during one of the previous applications, a heart attack, he had a double bypass operation and because of that reason, Judge Pillay excused him and he was excused for various other hearings on those grounds. The fact of the ...
I am right when I say that at the time during 1987, any particular person or association was seen to work in co-operation with the police, or giving evidence to the police or working in co-operation with the apartheid local Councillors, they were seen as "impimpis" and enemies of the liberation ...
Back to the issue of the mopping-up operation by hostel dwellers on August 24, I left home and returned near to Mzimhlope, Meadowlands, Killarney, "War zone". It must have been after midnight when, together with photographer Khosini, who was then known as William Kosi we observed a group of ...
JUDGE NGOEPE: Sorry, I accept that in terms of your report, I accept that he must have been subjected to some kind of stress, traumatic stress and so on. But I am not sure I understand as to what eventually triggered the disorder. What triggered the disorder into coming into operation?
There was direct military action. We have this here as Operation Palmiet. This operation took place in 1984 during the height of the Vaal rent boycott. This phase gave way to another lasting era from the late part of 1985 until the national peace accord. This phase can be described as a phase ...
is coming from. It is not from the people who are seated here, but it is like it is coming from the back rooms. We would really appreciate your co-operation because when we started we said we should make sure that we restore people's dignity ...
MR VISSER: Is it also your evidence that the operation was a Special Forces', army, operation?
The detail of the operation was that an explosive device would be placed on a railway line at Mpaka, Swaziland under circumstances which would implicate the ANC in the deed.  The idea was not to cause the device to detonate.  On the day in question Applicant and a number of his subordinates ...
... Whatever weapon he needed, I would supply it. The details of the actual attack on the house I do not have, but I know that he was the one in ...
In both occasions no force was used and in the first instance, he had been arrested for possession of a stolen vehicle which had been used in an MK operation. In 1990, due to the delay, in processing MK application for indemnity in terms of the former Indemnity Act, 1990, the applicant and other ...
MR BIZOS: The question was: "Was it a contingency plan which could only be put into operation by the decision of the Party"?
... clear to me that the same methods used in the Police during investigations and interrogations also applied here. It was very clear that the co-operation between the investigating officers who were all former policemen and the Police, that this co-operation was very close and very good. I ...
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