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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 301 to 320 of 373 First Page•Previous Page 11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 •18 •19 Next Page•Last Pagethe Amnesty Committee that the acts were committed in execution of the orders of his commander, Mr Bulelani Xuma, who also provided the arms for the operation. He testified that the mission was unsuccessful because the petrol tank did not explode as was intended, and subsequently resulted in the ... receiving training in the Transkei in 1992. Mgandela was unable to convince the Committee that he was an APLA cadre and that the robbery was an APLA operation. The applicant had scant knowledge of the then leadership of APLA and the PAC, and did not know who the APLA Director of Operations was. ... ... motivated by a recent statement by the Minister of Defence that there would be no more farm attacks in the area. The applicants had carried out the operation ‘to show the enemy what we can do. We can continue with the armed struggle; nothing will stop us.’ He said it was ‘unfortunate’ ... ... against the PAC … which action had to be responded to’. 68. Dolo testified that he had received an instruction from the Director of Special Operations, Mr Sipho Bulelani Xuma (code-named ‘Polite’), to launch operations against the SAP in his area. He testified that he had been an ... ... the military planners of the Caprivi project requested ‘indemnity from prosecution for offences carrying the death penalty’.1 9 6 Indeed the Operation Marion documents are littered with acknowledgements and references to the unlawful nature of the actions involved. The Commission found ... ... These offences were committed on the farm ‘Sarahsdale’ in the district of Dordrecht on 1 August 1993. 270. According to the applicant, the operation was planned in order to ‘raise funds’ to enable him to travel to the Transkei where he would receive basic APLA military training. He ... ... withdrawal of the first group and the ‘cut-out or security group’ would be positioned outside the target to prevent any interference with the operation. 202 Armed robbery carried out by Patrick Thapelo Maseko [AM 5918/97] at the University of the Trans kei (UNIT R A ) ,U m t a t a , on 18 ... ... were themselves infiltrated by the Security Branch. According to intelligence documents before the Commission, the SAP ran a Stratcom project (‘Operation Cosmopolitan’) in the early 1990s. This aimed, inter alia, to utilise strategic intelligence to persuade the right wing to take part in ... ... country at the time. When the person was picked up, it never occurred to him that the person could be seriously or fatally injured, but the whole operation went wrong when the deceased told them that he would re t u rn to the white area and an argument followed resulting in assaults and the ... ... themselves purely for personal gain. In the opinion of the Amnesty Committee (Committee), it was deceitful to refer to the robbery as an AZAPO operation. 6. According to the applicant’s version, the lion’s share of the proceeds of the robbery would have gone to common criminals and would ... ... robbed a Pep Store in Botshabelo near Bloemfontein. Although one of the attackers was armed, no violence was used in the actual robbery. After the operation, the armed APLA member became involved in a shoot-out with the police in which two police officers and the APLA operative died. 44. The ... Transkei operational bases 294. From operational bases secured in the Transkei, APLA conducted a series of attacks on civilian targets in the early 1990s. Operations in the Western Cape had particularly strong links to APLA structures in the Transkei. Weaponry was also sourced from the Transkei ... vehicles with false/changed registration numbers. They generally operated at night and wore civilian clothes and balaclavas when engaged in a covert operation. While the unit injured and killed indiscriminately at times, they targeted mainly UDF activists, who they interrogated, tortured and/or ... ... deliberations was the clandestine paramilitary training of some 200 Inkatha supporters by the SADF in the Caprivi, Namibia, during 1986, known as Operation Marion. The ‘Caprivi trainees’ returned to KwaZulu and Natal in September 1986, after six months of special forces training which, they ... ... [JB06472/03NW] and Mr André Duvenhage [JB02168/03WR] and the injury of Mr Khutswane [JB02168/03WR]. 30 The ANC lists the incident as an MK operation. The Commission received amnesty applications from Mr William Mabele [AM5313/97] and Mr Joseph Koetle [AM7500/97]. 31 There were a number ... ... African fold, nonetheless, brought its own rewards for the TDF. In the 1982/3 financial year, the TDF received R50 million from the Economic Co-operation Promotion Loan Fund, and a further grant of R30 million above its budgeted allowance to build up its counter-insurgency capabilities. ... Planned military operations Bombings 13 For the purposes of this report, planned military operations include the sabotage campaigns mounted by the ANC/MK, including urban bombing campaigns and rural land mine campaigns. Attacks on individuals perceived as ‘the enemy’, as ‘collaborators’ ... ... act in ways which countered ANC policy – except inasmuch as they did not engage in armed actions and tried to remain within the terrain of legal operation. 70 The fact that individual leaders of the mass movements owed allegiance to the ANC did not necessarily mean that they were all ANC ... ... JM ‘Sakkie’ van Zyl [AM5637/97], Warrant Officer Don Gold [AM3686/96] and Warrant Officer Disre ‘Des’ Carr [AM5008/97] were involved in an operation in April 1980 to eliminate an alleged Security Branch source who was suspected of being a double agent. 433 ‘Skorpion’ or ... Butterworth. One of the police suspects in this case escaped from jail and fled across the border to be offered employment in a covert SADF military operation based in Bisho. 106 While the police tended to operate in overt and brutal ways (detentions, torture, and assassinations), by the ... |
