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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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... were you also - or can you explain to the Committee how it was that you got about obtaining the approval from the ANC abroad for this particular ...
against this group. We discussed the necessity and all factors which was significant in the whole matter as well as the practical viability of this operation and it was clear to me that it was necessary for the Security Branch to take urgent action against this particular group in an attempt to ...
MR VALLY:: Even though it was a danger to your own operation?
MR NYAWUZA: So you carried out this operation and what happened? What subsequently happened?
MR TSHABALALA: What the problem was, I think he's a person who led to this whole operation to be aborted because later a raid was going to take place in that particular house.
... by myself and Dube and Stranger, who was the driver, who is now late. The Commander during the reconnaissance, the Commander decided that the operation be executed on the weekend of that ...
Consequently, the remaining PAC leadership lost total control of the forces at Itumbi Camp. Eventually the Tanzanian Defence Force intervened and in the operation to wrest control over the camp, four APLA cadres were killed by the Tanzanian Defence Force (TDF).
I also want you to consider the following because I have difficulty applying the Act when you mention all these people, new names, etc, because yesterday I thought we had exhausted everybody now, so that it gave the Panel a chance to set investigations into operation. Now we've got new names?
... Police Station, next to Machadodorp was used by askaris to hide their weapons. The presence of askaris in the area presented a threat to their operations and safety. As a MK commander, the Applicant used his initiative and discretion to launch an operation to rob the police station of ...
... he was defiant against us regarding a boycott of white owned businesses in Morgenzon, and when he was confronted by myself on his lack of co-operation, which included the refusal to be searched at the tavern, he tried to shoot me, but missed and shot one of my comrades by the name, ...
They asked me, did I prefer the skin graft to be taken from the thigh or from the rectum. I refer to come from the thigh and then they did the operation that where I received my skin graft.
Confused as I was I said that maybe he should go ahead and kill me and kill my children as well and just finish the whole job. And he said he won't do that but what he does, he kills people who are wrong and perpetrators but as for me I was innocent, so he won't go on ahead with the operation.
by people on the right concerning actions to stop the Nationalist political cause and he further states that actions were being planned and put into operation and that evidence is to be found in FR Page ...
... that we’ve heard of since - in the TRC process and other processes, confirms absolutely that view - that there were very nasty networks in operation seeking to destabilise the negotiated settlement or to bring pressure on the ANC and it’s alliance, so yes, we had very good reason for ...
realised that if the matter came before a Lesotho court, it would be a great embarrassment for the government and if he revealed anything about this operation, it would be a big problem for the government and we also realised that he was in danger of serving a long term of imprisonment if he was ...
MR ROSSOUW: You have now heard testimony that there was an operation in the Eastern Transvaal, on the Swaziland border and members of Vlakplaas returned back to Vlakplaas. Were you among these persons who returned from Swaziland, the Eastern Transvaal?
Furthermore, it's clear that this operation has many of the characteristics of other instances where there were people abducted, taken to isolated farms, there they were either interrogated or whatever and eventually killed. It's clearly operations that must have taken place on the instructions ...
MR LAMEY: You also mentioned in your initial application that the whole operation was under the leadership of Brig Schoon, with other high-ranking officers knowing about this. Is it correct that you are in agreement with Gen Stadler's involvement?
The other aspect is that when they left after they finished the operation, they went to George Mathe at Minaka Street, they passed a certain place first before they went to George Mathe where they threw those overalls they were wearing and Francis was injured. They washed his blood and went to ...
... and that he socialised with members during drinking sessions in the canteen.  He does not know whether or not Koekemoer was involved in the operation but he is aware of the judicial inquest into the matter in which Koekemoer ...
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