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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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... such as that governing the National Archives, or sometimes without authorisation. Specific mention must be made of the serious lack of co-operation from the SANDF which, to a significant degree, did not comply in supplying documentation concerning gross human rights violations. 42 ...
in an intensive, goal-oriented manner to facilitate, amongst other things, further arrests and detentions). 10 These orders were brutally put into operation. Those arrested were subjected to protracted and severe torture. Methods used to extract ‘confessions’ included electric shocks, ...
... our waiting strike craft and we would leave the area at high speed. So during the time I served on these attack vessels, we performed a number of operations of which we were instructed to keep secret our destination and operation. Often we were going to sea for a period of time and were not ...
... myself and the government, value sound working relationships between the public, the press and the authorities in South Africa, now offer their co-operation to help put an end to certain abuses which have become unbearable and a threat to the nation. 25 In response to the Steyn Commission, the ...
... ‘total strategy’ “elaborated the ideological basis for overt collaboration between senior military officers and business leaders”. This co-operation grew out of more than their converging strategic conceptions of necessary ‘reform’. It had a direct economic base. 105 Business ...
... waslittle time for reflection. The result was that the methodology of the Commissionevolved and changed quite considerably throughout its term of operation.5 In addition, although the Act listed a set of functions that the Commission wasrequired to fulfil, it provided very little guidance on ...
... period. The Commission thus recommends that: AN URGENT AUDIT OF THESE COURTS AND THEIR PERSONNEL BE UNDERTAKEN BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE PROVINCIAL MINISTRIES OF TRADITIONAL AFFAIRS. DESPITE THE FACT THAT SUCH COURTS DO NOT HAVE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION, THE DE FACTO ...
... cases were heard from an area torn apart by political violence, especially in the rural areas surrounding the town. Evidence was heard of close co-operation between the police and the IFP in this region. It was difficult to find a suitable venue for these hearings because people feared ...
... officer. There was only limited success in publicising hearings in this region and almost none in educating communities about the mandate and operation of the Commission. As will be discussed below, however, a variety of community-based organisations and NGOs stepped in to help fill the ...
... THE IMPLEMENTATION OF REPARATION AND REHABILITATION POLICY PROPOSALS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE PROPOSED SECRETARIAT WILL REQUIRE CO-OPERATION WITH A NUMBER OF MINISTRIES WHICH HAVE A LONG-TERM MANDATE TO INTEGRATE SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES. THE SECRETARIAT WILL ALSO APPLY ITSELF TO: ...
... HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION. IT SHOULD BE INDEPENDENT OF GOVERNMENT, PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY COUNCILS, BUT WOULD OBVIOUSLY WORK IN CO-OPERATION WITH THESE. THIS BODY BE RESPONSIBLE, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, FOR: IMPLEMENTING HEALTH SECTOR-RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY PARLIAMENT ...
... a person is only a person with other people’. We do have this duty to each other. The survival of our people in this country depends on our co-operation with each other. My plea to you is, help people throw their weapons away…No person’s life is a waste. Every person’s life is too ...
more we are held hostage by the agendas of those responsible for leaks. It is strongly recommended that the Commission should run its media liaison operation in a manner which draws the public into its decision making. Thus, the Commission should constantly give consideration to releasing draft ...
... of Democratic Lawyers National Association of Independent Lawyers National Association of Law Societies in South Africa National Literacy Co-operation and other educational stakeholders National Police and Public Civil Rights Union Nel, C D H O Netherlands Institute for Southern ...
... are intrinsic to their existence. The concepts of merit, ethics and morality are very differently understood and judged.70 The simultaneous operation of different value systems in society calls for wise systemic management if we want to promote a human rights culture at all. Of course, ...
... of an attack on train commuters by unidentified men. A group of about fifteen men opened fire indiscriminately. Shabangu was shot twice (despite an operation to remove the bullets, one is still lodged in his head), hacked on the forehead and assaulted. He was then thrown off the train but by ...
... not recall their names. ‘Tallmen’ Assen Jeremia Thimula, ‘Bernard’ Mbengeni Kone, Shadrack Sithole and others 330 The ‘Amsterdam’ operation, which took place on 14 August 1986, was conducted by members of Vlakplaas in association with the Security Branch in Piet Retief in the ...
... of the liberation movement who had received military training and were active in MK and APLA structure s ;b conducting covert cross - border operations (Swaziland remained the p re-eminent area of activity, always in close liaison with the Eastern Transvaal Security Branch division), andc ...
combatants. The above applications account for only fourteen of these. 183. Members of the Eastern Transvaal Security Branch sought amnesty only for operations that were conducted jointly with other Security Branch divisions, principally C1/Vlakplaas, and for which the Amnesty Committee had ...
123 . There were also applications for forty-eight attacks on houses by petrol bombing, other ‘home-made’ devices or, in the case of credibility operations,53 modified grenades. A covert unit of the Northern Transvaal Security Branch, acting in concert with certain members of the SAP’s ...
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