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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 341 to 360 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 14 •15 •16 •17 •18 •19 •20 •21 •22 Next Page•Last PageMR MAPOMA: Now when the briefing was made, a final briefing before you went to, for the operation, you never met with him? CHAIRPERSON: Did you know what Mr Pienaar knew about the operation when he got in the vehicle? Did you for a fact know what he knew? ... orders were explicitly to aim the shots at such a height that no risk would be posed to life or limb inside the house. The intention of the operation as well as Applicant's orders were clearly not to kill or harm any of the occupants of the house. The shots fired by Applicant were ... In this incident the applicants attacked the policeman as part of the revival of the earlier operation during 1989 to remove the police from the township in an attempt to consolidate the renewed peace process with the Ama-Afrika vigilantes. The perception was that the police were intentionally ... 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. The Applicants and Nortje who also testified, say they waited at the point for quite some time and at some stage abandoned the operation. Later Lucas and Simon came to report that they had shot and killed the suspects because they suspected that the latter were trying to get them into a trap for ... MR VEYI: When there would be an operation, for example, maybe there would be eight of us in the Unit and then six of us would go outside and there would be those who are left inside the country, those who would handle the sources inside the country and collect reports. In Lengene’s case, that is ... MR JANSEN: Something else which needs to be placed in context, you say, referring to the function which Minister Vlok attended, that he congratulated you on the operation of Cosatu House. Cosatu House, was it mentioned by name by the minister? MR DU TOIT: Chairperson, if the person escaped from the detention of members in the Witwatersrand we would write a separate report or it would happen in co-operation with the Eastern Transvaal and then I wouldn’t visit the scene but it would be another senior officer from that specific department. MR SINJATSI: Did you after this bomb blast, undergo any operation in respect of your eardrum? ... the meeting had just ended and had been attended by Warrant Officer Fivaz, Chris de Jager and Tony Fernandez. He was informed by Fivaz that an operation had been planned to eliminate a member of the Pan Africanist Congress. The reason why this person would have to be killed, was because he ... 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 ... ... as a result I lost my left arm, it was amputated from the elbow, below the elbow, I've got 60% use of my right arm plus three fingers are not in operation and there were statements taken from us by the Murder and Robbery Unit in East London at the time while I was in hospital. Still up to ... bit uncomfortable is the fact that he was the Divisional Commander of Soweto and he must have taken a decision fairly near the top in regard to this operation, and I would have thought that I would have, you would have been interested just to know how he saw his position at that time, vis-a-vis ... MS LOCKHAT: When you discussed the plan of this operation, what was the other people to do, where were they supposed to be situated at the Tattersalls, what was their location? You were going to be the driver, Linda was going to have the firearm, where were the others going to be? MR NGCOBO: I cannot say it with certainty because there was a lot of gun shots going off, but from what I could surmise they must have been the security of our operation because ...(intervention) CHAIRPERSON: We will adjourn for lunch, with the co-operation of the parties, can we reconvene in 30 minutes' time? We will reconvene at half past one, thank you. CHAIRPERSON: Who was present at the operation? ... that I acted legally, justified would be a better word to use. I was aware that this action would be a crime and is an irregular action and in co-operation with an explosives expert from the SAP at that stage, it was Lieut C Rorich, explosives were placed in the room where the training of these ... ... we cleaned the offices next door, burned documents and left the offices clean and tidy. The carpets were vacuumed. It was quite a clean-up ... |
