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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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... 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 ...
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 ...
MR LAMEY: You also mentioned in your initial application that the whole operation was under the leadership of Brig Schoon, with other high-ranking officers knowing about this. Is it correct that you are in agreement with Gen Stadler's involvement?
... Police Station, next to Machadodorp was used by askaris to hide their weapons. The presence of askaris in the area presented a threat to their operations and safety. As a MK commander, the Applicant used his initiative and discretion to launch an operation to rob the police station of ...
... were you also - or can you explain to the Committee how it was that you got about obtaining the approval from the ANC abroad for this particular ...
Confused as I was I said that maybe he should go ahead and kill me and kill my children as well and just finish the whole job. And he said he won't do that but what he does, he kills people who are wrong and perpetrators but as for me I was innocent, so he won't go on ahead with the operation.
They asked me, did I prefer the skin graft to be taken from the thigh or from the rectum. I refer to come from the thigh and then they did the operation that where I received my skin graft.
/into operation.
... that we’ve heard of since - in the TRC process and other processes, confirms absolutely that view - that there were very nasty networks in operation seeking to destabilise the negotiated settlement or to bring pressure on the ANC and it’s alliance, so yes, we had very good reason for ...
by people on the right concerning actions to stop the Nationalist political cause and he further states that actions were being planned and put into operation and that evidence is to be found in FR Page ...
against this group. We discussed the necessity and all factors which was significant in the whole matter as well as the practical viability of this operation and it was clear to me that it was necessary for the Security Branch to take urgent action against this particular group in an attempt to ...
I also want you to consider the following because I have difficulty applying the Act when you mention all these people, new names, etc, because yesterday I thought we had exhausted everybody now, so that it gave the Panel a chance to set investigations into operation. Now we've got new names?
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.
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 ...
ADV GCABASHE: In terms of giving orders, you could only give orders for a particular operation within Mandela section, am I right, or could you also give orders to the other SDU Commanders from the other areas?
MR SIMELANE: Yes, he was, he was still a member of the operation, Special Operations.
MR CUBA: The PAC structures work hand in hand in whatever operation that they undertake.
MR LANDMAN: Now Mr Shoke is it correct that you were requested to participate in an operation involving the planting of a bomb at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium?
... was, or the person who was tasked.  If it was a smaller activist and if it was a greater activist like Masuku - I have to refer to the normal operation, I cannot recall the detail there of it.  I can see in Oupa's statement itself, where he says how great an activist he was.  I cannot ...
MR DU PLESSIS: Did you derive any financial benefit from this operation?
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