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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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... identify people who were injured or dead. They took me to Garankuwa Hospital. I stayed there. The doctor said I broke my leg, then they took me to operation. They took me to ...
... word execution, quite advisedly here, because that emerged in my trial of at least 3 and possibly 4 of the 7 had all the hallmarks and Koevoet type operation. ...
MR MBANDAZAYO: Is it also correct that your first operation was in 1992?
MR HATTINGH: If Mr de Kock had been present at the time when Mr Mngomezulu was abducted and interrogated no doubt he would have taken charge of the operation, not so?
... 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 ...
... we started shooting. We thought then that maybe some of them had died or were injured. But we received the information about the results of the operation from newspapers about the outcome of the ...
MR CALLAGHAN: All of the bodies were dead, they were lashed to the bumpers and mudguards for three primary reasons: (1) was intimidation, (2) was to collect on the bounty and (3) was in order to compile a picture of where they fitted into the SWAPO operation. In other words, ...(intervention)
from this statement how difficult the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is and how the best way to achieve all this, we require the co-operation of each and everyone of you here and each and everyone of the citizens of this country. So, to proceed, ...
So there is co-operation between you even though that pain is still with you?
... understanding of that particular chapter was that there was some sort of arrangement between Mrs Mandela and Xoliswa Falati in connection with your operation to go and trap Paul Verryn on Mrs Mandela’s instructions. Was Mrs Falati involved in this conspiracy that you are talking about that is ...
That's what happened, it's a fact. The late comrade John Showa, who was one of the seniors in APLA and who was responsible for the task force operations being a person that I am well known to because I was a member of APLA. He requested me to identify people who can be important to take our ...
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 VISSER: Did you become aware at some stage of a planning of an operation during the middle of 1985, in Botswana?
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?
The applicant does not appear to have shown remorse in the time immediately following the attack, and even went so far as to say that had a white person been killed in the train station attack, he would have been more satisfied with the relative success of this operation.
... of Glory Sidibe and as many of the other members of the September Machinery as possible, if they could be obtained. Col de Kock would be the Operational Commander for the ...
On the 1st of May in 1990 I was coming from hospital after an operation - I was discharged in the morning. When I got home I laid down and I sent Vuyo to the shop to buy bread. Whilst lying there I heard some sounds from a certain direction - their were bullet sounds. They kept on, then I stood ...
CHAIRPERSON: ...(indistinct) stand correctly you wanted no part of that, the killing part of this whole operation?
JUDGE DE JAGER: Just one thing, were you in charge of this operation?
As far as the operation itself is concerned Tanda and Shiceka have admitted and confessed to you that they were directly involved in perpetrating the attack. They were armed with automatic weapons and grenades. The automatic weapons were used.
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