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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 281 to 300 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 •18 •19 Next Page•Last Page... Turfontein. The mine was placed behind the bar at the sports ground to ensure that no one was injured in the blast. It was a so-called propaganda operation to let it be known that MK has a presence in the White suburbs. Nobody was injured in the ... bit uncomfortable is the fact that he was the Divisional Commander of Soweto and he must have taken a decision fairly near the top in regard to this operation, and I would have thought that I would have, you would have been interested just to know how he saw his position at that time, vis-a-vis ... Mr Rorich, with this sort of operation that you executed there, would it have been at all possible to determine whether or not there were so-called innocent persons in the places that you blew up? MR JUBBER: No, Chairperson, except that the information which Insp Pretorius gave, indicating that he was an activist and a suspect who was under our attention and that reports were sent through to head office. I do not have any further knowledge of the operation itself. MR SNYDERS: Yes, Chairperson. With regard to some of the incidents, tape recordings were made by Mr de Kock, which we played back to Mr Oosthuizen once we arrived back in Pretoria, to indicate that the operation had been successfully completed. MR MKOSANA: No Sir, orders were given. Every soldier knows that he will have an operation that on the 7th of September and then we'll be deployed at the stadium. Everybody was given orders. I've given a warning order to my deputy and then I also to affect my own orders and then I give them to my ... ... we cleaned the offices next door, burned documents and left the offices clean and tidy. The carpets were vacuumed. It was quite a clean-up ... MS LOCKHAT: When you discussed the plan of this operation, what was the other people to do, where were they supposed to be situated at the Tattersalls, what was their location? You were going to be the driver, Linda was going to have the firearm, where were the others going to be? 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 ... CHAIRPERSON: Now starting at page 164 you talk about this operation and the return where you ate and drank on the way back. INSP. DE LA REY: Mr Chairperson, after the arrests I got good co-operation from those persons arrested. There was a good understanding between us and as I have said voluntarily without being forced in any way, these items were pointed out to me and I was given certain information without using ... ... 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 ... MR SHANE: Who commanded this operation sir? ... the Commission's Report, in the paragraphs that we were dealing with. I just want to find the paragraphs, yes 395, and because of your lack of co-operation I didn't put the names to you of 398. Now did that intention to protect that you had in 1990, carry through when you gave evidence before ... MR KOOLE: That is Mr de Kock who asked us as to whether we have our passports or not, then he told us to prepare ourselves because at that night we would be going to Swaziland to do a certain operation. MS SOOKA: One of the structures that also came into operation was the peoples court and in fact at your trial I think part of the charge was running peoples courts. Do you 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? ... and the material or equipment that they would use. If a person was going to use a firearm, that particular person would be trained in the operation of the firearm. Even with the grenade it would be the same. If a person was to use car bombs, he would get that kind of ... GEN VILJOEN: I would just like to point out Chairperson, that the blackening of faces in the military operation is |
