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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 Shezi also denies that he was an operative under Operation Vula. He deposes further that faceless people had a campaign to kill people who practised witchcraft in the South Coast area. The Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) (which the ANC form part of), opposed this campaign and set up committees ...
Mr Kasrils, whilst the cadres on the ground were to use their initiative and use their own discretion in for instance selecting targets, the material they would use to undertake such an operation would also be within their discretion. Would I be correct in that?
MR COETZEE: What I'm actually getting at is, would Mr Kasrils have been aware of the fact that you were going to set off this bomb before you actually did it or did you just afterwards inform him that that operation there was from "our cell"?
We are also satisfied that the Second Applicant acted as he did as a result of orders received and that Ninth Applicant in failing to make any statement did so in what he believed to be in the interests of his unit which had carried out what he believed was a legitimate operation.
MR LAX: But you see, your evidence and the evidence in these statements is that these guns were given to you by Master, specifically to go on this operation, these are not general guns that you had for your general use, these were guns issued for you to specially go and catch Hamilton Gumede, and ...
... me to tell me exactly what was happening at the time but I was listening the radios and reading the newspapers, that's where I got the date of the operation of the autopsy. The first time I saw the body was here in Umtata hospital when he was going to be operated on, it was already now after a ...
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 ...
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, ...
Applicant was released on 21 April 1993 after his bail was paid by the PAC. He subsequently wrote a report of the operation to his commander and submitted it to the PAC Headquarters in Johannesburg. This report was discovered by the police during a raid on the PAC Headquarters during May ...
CHAIRPERSON: ...(indistinct) stand correctly you wanted no part of that, the killing part of this whole operation?
... the van. Right in the police van they again assaulted me so much, I was never beaten up so much. Such that even yesterday I had to go through an operation. The doctor who was taken care of me was Dr Bekker at the ...
d. obtain or promote the co-operation of departments of State, other government institutions, representatives of any branch of commerce and industry and other persons concerned."
... was at St James, who participated in St James and commanded that unit, and again he was involved in Golf Club. Golf Club by the way was the first operation which was in 1992 before the others, the others followed. Xhomiso Nonuxba was involved. ...
CHAIRPERSON: Who was present at the operation?
... You could have gone with a certain intention, but the moment you take something for personal gain, it's overriding, then the but laws comes into operation and it negatives everything that happened before and that may be a problem in this matter, to ...
The other aspect is that when they left after they finished the operation, they went to George Mathe at Minaka Street, they passed a certain place first before they went to George Mathe where they threw those overalls they were wearing and Francis was injured. They washed his blood and went to ...
... and that he socialised with members during drinking sessions in the canteen.  He does not know whether or not Koekemoer was involved in the operation but he is aware of the judicial inquest into the matter in which Koekemoer ...
GEN VILJOEN: I would just like to point out Chairperson, that the blackening of faces in the military operation is
MR NKOSI: The mode of operation or the code of conduct was ...(indistinct), suggestions were made to the effect that all the people who were brought together were expected to conduct themselves in the manner in which I will explain, but just have to indicate now that not everything went according ...
MR LAX: You don't even know Mgululego's surname, yet you got involved in this operation with him?
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