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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 261 to 280 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 •18 Next Page•Last Page... to the then situation when the Venda government was still in control of the - everybody was saying the traditional healers and witches were in co-operation so that the government should not really be targeted or ... 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 SHAI: And it's now common cause, it's now evidence before court that something went wrong in your operation, is that correct? ... 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 ... MR MAHLALELA: Definitely in the operation I was alone, as I have indicated earlier on. But I know about Frazer, he was part of the Unit that was operating in the area, but he was not under my command, he was under my same immediate command, but we operate in parallel. MR CILLIER: One of them, Director Henk Hesslinga is not available because he's sick, he underwent an operation. MR NEL: You were, at the time of this operation, under the command of Mr de Kock at Vlakplaas, is that correct? After I contacted the special investigation team and told them I would give them my full co-operation, I handed three containers with weapons which I had buried. Mr de Kock also did know of all the weapons and amongst others there were 5 LMGs, 6 Makarovs and some explosives. 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 time of these instructions without any specific means to target, the discretion to select which Police to target was left solely upon us. The operations of our Unit commenced around 1991, (indistinct) by the heightened hostel violence especially around Merafi hostel which is not far from ... Chairperson, just for the record again, Simon Radebe, that is the other last applicant, he won't be testifying today because he had undergone an eye operation, and he was supposed to be here but Adv Hattingh informed me that he will be here tomorrow ... JUDGE POTGIETER: Yes, but I don't want to get involved in the niceties of this sort of operation, I just want to know whether it would be effective against those kind of vehicles that I have listed? Applicant was the commander of the unit of 6 members deployed for purposes of the operation. The group was accommodated at Kentane, a village which borders Kei Mouth. The group crossed the Kei River on foot and divided into two groups. They were all armed. The one group attacked a ... MR SIMELANE: Yes, he was, he was still a member of the operation, Special Operations. obtained permission from Middelburg Regional Office, for our mini-bus to be used and that Colonel De Kock from Vlakplaas would be in command of this operation. Seeing as I was at that stage the Commander of Witbank Security Branch, I took the decision to drive the bus to Piet Retief ... Khumalo was back within 30 minutes of having left us there. He had a box with him which had Hunters Gold inside, or cans of Hunters Gold. He had brought some alcoholic beverages to the policemen who were at the charge office. That made it clear that this was their mode of operation. will be aware of the fact that to have a Parliamentary session in October of the year, would be an extraordinary session. It wouldn't be the normal operation of Parliament. Parliament then only once again, Mr Chairman, is prorogued in January or February, I believe, the opening of Parliament ... MR MOTLOKWA: That was so Sir, that was the case but because of certain reasons we did not have a code of conduct the situation forced us. I've already told you that the members of the MK taught us how to handle guns. That is why most of the time the Kangaroo Court was in operation. MR DU TOIT: Chairperson, if the person escaped from the detention of members in the Witwatersrand we would write a separate report or it would happen in co-operation with the Eastern Transvaal and then I wouldn’t visit the scene but it would be another senior officer from that specific department. And that is where he was operated on and they said he had some fluid in his lounges so he underwent that operation and after which, by God’s grace, he felt better. And then they’d asked what had happened there and then he said he had been beaten by the police. That time I went back to ... |
