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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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De Kock's version about his visit to Van Rensburg's office is corroborated by Ras who indicated that he accompanied de Kock to van Rensburg's office, on the day of Nieuwoudt's visit to Pretoria, where reference was made to the Port Elizabeth operation.
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.
MR KOOPEDI: Now did you gain anything personally, that is perhaps financially or materially, were you paid for having taken part in this operation?
relevant provisions of the Act and how those provisions should be applied to the facts of this case. With that in mind, I would like to ask your co-operation in trying to find out whether you could furnish us - counsel who wish to furnish us with argument by Friday, a fortnight from now which is ...
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?
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
MR SHAI: And it's now common cause, it's now evidence before court that something went wrong in your operation, is that correct?
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.
With the information that we have now, about the way Vlakplaas operates - how do you feel about this fact that you were not told that this operation involved Vlakplaas?
I would also like to place on record the fact that we're extremely obliged to Mr Shaik for his co-operation in this regard, he has been here today ready to go on with the hearing and he has agreed to the matter being adjourned without opposition and we understand very much how much he wants to ...
... 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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
The applicant states that whilst he was at the base Swanepoel called all the members into a hall. He told tem that he was planning to launch an operation to recruit someone from the local community as an informer. Different roles were assigned to different members and the place had to be cleared ...
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.
Then I alighted at Kalafong. They were together with me to accompany me. When we arrived there she was in Ward 9. She had already undergone an operation, but they could not assist her immediately with the wounds that she received. They took her out of the ward and to the Intensive Care Unit. ...
... border.  He was informed that there was a photocopy machined in the Pietersburg office of the Security Branch which had been stolen during an operation.  He assumed that it was a machine stolen from a trade union office.  The Applicant did not disclose his knowledge of the stolen ...
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