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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 321 to 340 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 13 •14 •15 •16 •17 •18 •19 •20 •21 Next Page•Last Page... that he only became aware of it when it was referred to in the criminal trial.) According to the Applicants Jones told them that the next operation was the Bahai Faith Centre attack. They were told to kill all white people who were present there. The following is what ... And he had been shot on his tummy and I used to visit him in hospital and until he was discharged, one of the nursing sisters said they did not see anything in his tummy so he had an operation from the diaphragm down to the abdomen. So he was discharged and I took him to King William's Town. MR KOOPEDI: Now did you gain anything personally, that is perhaps financially or materially, were you paid for having taken part in this operation? MR SHAI: And it's now common cause, it's now evidence before court that something went wrong in your operation, is that correct? ... to the then situation when the Venda government was still in control of the - everybody was saying the traditional healers and witches were in co-operation so that the government should not really be targeted or ... MR BOOYENS: And is it further correct, as you have already testified, that the decision to eliminate such a person and the decision to continue whatsoever with the operation, was not within your control? 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 ... 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 to use him in a different capacity in Europe. This didn't materialise because Williamson and General Coetzee could not manage to obtain the co-operation of Mr Lars Gunnar Ericsson, the director of the IUEF, after he became aware of Williamson's double ... MR MAHLALELA: Definitely in the operation I was alone, as I have indicated earlier on. But I know about Frazer, he was part of the Unit that was operating in the area, but he was not under my command, he was under my same immediate command, but we operate in parallel. JUDGE POTGIETER: They planned this operation? GEN VILJOEN: I would just like to point out Chairperson, that the blackening of faces in the military operation is CHAIRPERSON: So Thabiso in this operation, Thabiso was commanding? 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. ... 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 ... Essentially this operation was executed in an effort to maintain the ANC/IFP borders that had come about as a result of the violent conflict in the area. The defensive action at Mazibuko ensured that the residents of Thokoza did not lose any more houses, shops, etc. to the IFP, because each time ... MR EVERSON: As I recall, they were quite large cardboard boxes or wooded boxes, not unsimilar to the boxes that were used on the Trojan Horse operation. ADV VISSER: Now, were any of his orders conveyed to you as to what was the purpose and objective of this operation and what is to be done with the six people? Van Jaarsveld appeared at the hearing as an implicated person. He denied even taking part in the operation. Significantly though, upon asked to say why he said he did not participate therein, he said that if he did, he would have remembered it as he had a very good memory. He could not remember ... ... in a situation where they were arrested by the Botswana Police, because you must know that I did not have approval from anyone to execute this ... |
