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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 241 to 260 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 Next Page•Last Page... me to tell me exactly what was happening at the time but I was listening the radios and reading the newspapers, that's where I got the date of the operation of the autopsy. The first time I saw the body was here in Umtata hospital when he was going to be operated on, it was already now after a ... ... orders were explicitly to aim the shots at such a height that no risk would be posed to life or limb inside the house. The intention of the operation as well as Applicant's orders were clearly not to kill or harm any of the occupants of the house. The shots fired by Applicant were ... In this incident the applicants attacked the policeman as part of the revival of the earlier operation during 1989 to remove the police from the township in an attempt to consolidate the renewed peace process with the Ama-Afrika vigilantes. The perception was that the police were intentionally ... MR PIENAAR: Chairperson, there were letters where terrorists were killed in conflict with the police, which was only necessary to get the commander of that operation, to obtain his statement and to hand it in, which I in any case did not do, I tried to investigate it as thoroughly as possible. The applicant states that whilst he was at the base Swanepoel called all the members into a hall. He told tem that he was planning to launch an operation to recruit someone from the local community as an informer. Different roles were assigned to different members and the place had to be cleared ... MR ROSSOUW: On page 16, if I may just refer you to the top of page 16. You state there that you were a Sergeant and a subordinate at Vlakplaas during 1989, with this operation, that was the rank that you occupied? Essentially this operation was executed in an effort to maintain the ANC/IFP borders that had come about as a result of the violent conflict in the area. The defensive action at Mazibuko ensured that the residents of Thokoza did not lose any more houses, shops, etc. to the IFP, because each time ... MR LAX: But you see, your evidence and the evidence in these statements is that these guns were given to you by Master, specifically to go on this operation, these are not general guns that you had for your general use, these were guns issued for you to specially go and catch Hamilton Gumede, and ... MS LOONAT: Please bear with me one moment. Mr Chunene, on page 10 of the Bundle, point 3, you say that, the last line of point 3 that you were not the Commander, but you were the one who planned the operation, is that correct? MR VISSER: Did you know beforehand that it was intended and that an instruction was given that as soon as the persons whom we are referring to here, entered Swaziland, there would be an operation to eliminate them? MR SHAI: And it's now common cause, it's now evidence before court that something went wrong in your operation, is that correct? He says he's referring to the taxi and busses war. I told him that the conflict between the taxis and busses has been resolved and they are now in operation peacefully. As we were talking, the white man who was using the machine left, Amos went to the ATM machine. His words disturbed me as he ... With the information that we have now, about the way Vlakplaas operates - how do you feel about this fact that you were not told that this operation involved Vlakplaas? That's what happened, it's a fact. The late comrade John Showa, who was one of the seniors in APLA and who was responsible for the task force operations being a person that I am well known to because I was a member of APLA. He requested me to identify people who can be important to take our ... Do you think that you recovered completely after the shooting incident? --- No because it is bad weather, when it is cold and raining, I experience pain and I get told that the inside of where I had the operation, swells up. Then I alighted at Kalafong. They were together with me to accompany me. When we arrived there she was in Ward 9. She had already undergone an operation, but they could not assist her immediately with the wounds that she received. They took her out of the ward and to the Intensive Care Unit. ... GEN VILJOEN: I would just like to point out Chairperson, that the blackening of faces in the military operation is CHAIRPERSON: So Thabiso in this operation, Thabiso was commanding? ... in a situation where they were arrested by the Botswana Police, because you must know that I did not have approval from anyone to execute this ... ... border. He was informed that there was a photocopy machined in the Pietersburg office of the Security Branch which had been stolen during an operation. He assumed that it was a machine stolen from a trade union office. The Applicant did not disclose his knowledge of the stolen ... |