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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 201 to 220 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 7 •8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 Next Page•Last Page... the bundles that the TRC have forwarded to both yourselves and us find themselves now, we don't know, but what we will attempt to do with the co-operation of Ms Thabethe, the Evidence Leader, we're hoping that she will be able to render us assistance, is to print in each of the applicants for ... MR BRINK: And apart from the torture of these men you were merely a passive participant, so to speak, in the further conduct of the operation? ... 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 VISSER: Is it also your evidence that the operation was a Special Forces', army, operation? ... you recall that Willie Nortje was present and you have already heard that his legal representative has stated that he was not present during the operation. Is it possible that you may have confused his presence in this operation with his presence in ... ... the shooting took place in the presence of his child and Mr Makola has alluded to the fact that it would not be in a spirit of carrying out an ANC operation to kill in front of a child. The excuse that he has tried to come up with, that he had to use that opportunity to kill, should not be ... ... to defy this order I’ll follow it. I asked where we were going to work and he said we will come and pick you up and we will get an order of the operation of how we are going to operate. I accepted the order as he was like a Commander at the time because he was the one given this order and I ... 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? EXAMINATION BY MR VISSER: Mr Steenberg, you are an applicant for amnesty for an operation that was executed across the Swaziland border which we know happened on the 8th of December 1981, is that correct? There is something I would like to say. The presence of the Special Branch and the co-operation of the employers with the Government was a very painful thing to us and we have evidence of this. Mr Chairperson, I haven’t heard an employer coming forward to the Commission saying that at the they ... ... 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 ... 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? MR KOPEDI: I see you were not involved on the SB, the tenant operation. Is there any other operation you were involved in with this unit that we have not talked about now? ... explain to him that I feel very dizzy every time I put on these glasses. He then took me to St. John's. I was told that I will have to undergo an operation. Yes, they operated me at St. John's and after the operation I lost my eyesight until at this stage where I cannot ... 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 ... In the evening of the day in question, both the applicant and Jack proceeded to the intended target where they threw a number of petrol-bombs. The operation was a blunder, in that a wrong target was hit, and that was the house belonging to Elizabeth Makwana. Although there were people inside, no ... 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 ... 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 ... MR BLACK: Did he go out to the scene of the operation, did you as the Investigator take him out to where the shooting had taken place so that he could take photographs of that scene? were looking for such a person. He did not even know who was staying at that house. He did, however, suspect that they were involved in some operation and were looking for a person whom they were going to attack. It transpired that the house belonged to Zungu who was not there at the ... |
