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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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Mr Chairman, that we have the cases decided in our courts which make Section 29 statements admissible and we may say that the Section 29 that was in operation in 1993 when the statements were made, was a much more human rights friendly Section to the ones that the cases deal ...
a State witness they stopped giving me the proper attention that I deserved. I never went to the doctor again because I was supposed to undergo an operation but the police never took me there again. When my appointment card was asked from them they said that they did not know that I was ...
... 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, ...
MR NYAWUZA: So you carried out this operation and what happened? What subsequently happened?
... as a result I lost my left arm, it was amputated from the elbow, below the elbow, I've got 60% use of my right arm plus three fingers are not in operation and there were statements taken from us by the Murder and Robbery Unit in East London at the time while I was in hospital. Still up to ...
that were erected within the square and the general atmosphere of defiance that existed. And I think that it's only in that kind of context that the operation that we now come to know as the Trojan Horse killings could be conceived, planned and ...
that there is a third force element in the trains which has now been proved true, that there's an allegation that there was an RSA, RSA had a covert operation run by International Researches in Ciskei, we just want to make sure if that is the ...
heartless and cruel. The cover up operation which followed, was
... 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 ...
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.
ADV STEENKAMP: Just a follow-up question. Were you under the impression that Mr Jubber must have known or that he would have known subsequently of the operation that you had been involved with? Is that what you have said?
MR JANSEN: Mr Ras also adds that this person was indeed this young boy that was shot that evening of the operation.
MR MHLONGO: It was around May. I could not talk to her because she was busy with an operation, harassing the community.
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 ...
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).
MR VALLY:: Even though it was a danger to your own operation?
MR MAPOMA: Were you aware that it was going to be used in that operation?
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 KHWEZA: Did you know who had given the orders to Bobbie, Sonny and the other gentleman to carry out the operation in question?
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.
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