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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 261 to 280 of 373 First Page•Previous Page 10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 •18 Next Page•Last Page... that there was little investigative interest or likelihood that the state would make headway with a case against them. Applications from Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) operatives, for example, referred to only a handful of incidents committed in the Western Cape, despite their involvement in a ... ... Directorate of Covert Collections (DCC) personnel indicate that the SADF’s involvement in the destabilisation of the homelands did not end with Operation Katzen. However, as two of these applications were withdrawn and the third was decided in Chambers, little new detail emerged regarding the ... ... made available to the Commission’s investigative unit, he made it clear that he believed that target information provided by TREWITS was used operationally and led to the commission of gross violations of human rights that included killing. 63 . In 1986, Captain Henri van der Westhuizen, a ... ... from five applicants, including both divisional commanders. The incidents involved eight killings and at least seven attempted killings (all in Operation Zero Zero) and an attack on the home of a political activist. All applicants were granted amnesty. ... ... of the C1 (Vlakplaas) unit and from the Technical Division of Security Branch Headquarters for their participation in Eastern Cape Security Branch operations. 242. Incidents applied for include nine or possibly ten abductions and fifteen killings that occurred between 1977 and 1989. Only three ... ... the two MK operatives themselves, and injuring more than 200 people. Three persons applied for and were granted amnesty for aspects of this operation: Mr Aboobaker Ismail, Mr Johannes Mnisi (MK Victor Molefe) and Ms Hélène Passtoors [AC/2001/003 and AC/2001/023]. Landmine campaign 72. ... . Discipline 85. The Commission did not hear of any specific cases where operatives were censured or punished for improper action or unauthorised operations. However, some amnesty applicants made general reference to operatives being recalled to MHQ or to the frontal command and being asked to ... ... specific campaigns being supported by MK, such as labour actions and anti-election campaigns.52. The stated objective of MK was never to engage in operations that deliberately targeted civilians or indeed white people. Ta rgets were not selected on the basis of race, and most attacks were aimed ... to lay blame for the Khotso House bomb on MK operative Shirley Gunn. Ms Gunn was subsequently detained. 346. The use of Eastern Bloc weapons in many operations was a further means of disguising the identity of the perpetrators. It is significant that security force operatives had easy access to, ... ... things would be the Security Forces of South Africa. Anyone who pretended not to have that knowledge and wanted to blame any other body for this operation, would have been extremely naive and extremely ignorant at that stage. (Pretoria hearing, 29 February 2000.) 359. In his evidence before ... ... the RRC’s direct attention to existing products, did not initiate any new or tailor-made banking products. The banks that indicated their co-operation were : ABSA, First National, Cape of Good Hope, Meeg Bank Limited and Mercantile Lisbon, Saambou and Standard banks. 44. In retrospect, the ... ... implementation of the reparation and rehabilitation policy should be facilitated through the office with the highest authority, so as to ensure co-operation and accountability on the part of government departments. CHALLENGES IN PROCESSING APPLICATIONS Uneven flow 34. The uneven flow of ... ... gang members with ammunition and paid for their funerals.11 143 Allegations were made that police members accompanied the Three Million Gang on operations against the UDF/ANC, that they participated in attacks, provided weaponry and obstructed criminal prosecutions against gang members. In ... ... launched the so-called ‘One Settler One Bullet’ campaign. PAC leader and APLA Commander Sabelo Phama ordered the military exercise known as ‘Operation Great Storm’ to reclaim the land from white farmers and return it to the African people. Instructions were given to attack farmers and to ... ... for some ANC-aligned union leaders. Amnesty applicant Alexander Erwin43 [AM6091/97] told the Commission that in 1988 he was in command of a defence operation for NUMSA leaders in the province. Weapons procured under his command were used in offences committed in various places around the ... ... On 14 June 1986, three people were killed and about sixty-nine injured in a car bomb explosion at Magoo’s Bar on the Durban beachfront. The operation was carried out by Mr Robert McBride, Ms Greta Apelgren and Mr Matthew le Cordier. McBride was convicted of the killings and sentenced to ... ... Legislation Directorate 79 This investigation was conducted by representatives of the Commission and the National Archives with the excellent co-operation of the Ministry of Justice. Because of the small size of the Department of Justice’s Security Legislation Directorate, and the ... ... the effect of expunging any criminal record relating to the offence in respect of which amnesty had been granted. It did not, however, affect the operation of any civil judgment given against the successful applicant based upon the act for which amnesty had been granted. REFUSAL OF AMNESTY AND ... ... was the culmination of various ideas and proposals and the result of mechanisms that developed as the process evolved. 26. The Commission came into operation on 15 December 1995 and the first application for amnesty was submitted on 1 January 1996. The Committee, which was based in Cape Town, met ... ... of their remains. One such example of this is the ‘Nietverdiend Ten’, the case of ten youths killed in a joint SADF and Security Police operation. The youths, aged between 14 and 19 years, had been ‘ recruited’ by Security Branch agent, Joe Mamasela, purporting to be an Umkhonto ... |
