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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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Thousands of workers were dismissed and forced out of hostels, Cosatu House was raided in a military operation twice by Police and the Military, even using sniper riflemen. The streets outside our offices were almost barricaded by police on a daily basis, and workers and personnel there were ...
MR RICHARD: Indeed there was co-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 ...
MR VAN WYK: Did you decide to give your full co-operation to the ANC in this enquiry?
And that is where he was operated on and they said he had some fluid in his lounges so he underwent that operation and after which, by God’s grace, he felt better. And then they’d asked what had happened there and then he said he had been beaten by the police. That time I went back to ...
... came and Mkuseli also came. He had been injured and he was red, he was bleeding. What I was worried about was that he had recently undergone an operation on his one leg and that leg had been struck by a ...
... house. The extent of the damage was something we did not know. Whether his belongings would burn, the insurance would pay and security branch operation would be concealed until today as I am saying here ...
MR HANTON: No, I heard it the day of the operation.
"I had heard of allegations of former colleagues of mine, that I was involved with the discussions and planning beforehand of this operation."
I requested Lieut-Col Heystek to send a number of members with me on this operation from within a security and executive perspective. The following members who were attached to the Security Branch in Soweto, accompanied me to Botswana:
... 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 ...
/into operation.
"At the beginning of 1987 Inkatha was in dire straits, but we came in and restored a certain sense of law and order by February." This was known as Operation Doom, and it was scheduled to begin in January 1988. Quite by chance I drove into the middle of the first offensive, which took place on ...
askaris was Captain Moss who gave the signal.  De Kock testified that he commanded Moss to monitor the police station next to Manzini during the operation, he was not at the scene of the ambush.  Du Plessis stated that he was told that the persons to be killed were terrorists who wanted to ...
In other words they wanted to make quite sure. The Court found that Acheson had executed the assassination on the instructions of the Division of the South African Defence Force known as the Civil Co-operation Bureau, also known as CCB.
With the establishment of the United Democratic Front in 1983, a new phase was entered. Many organisations joined the UDF country-wide and although it could never be determined exactly in what respect the ANC/SACP Alliance controlled the UDF, there was close co-operation between them.
... 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. ...
- In order to carry out the operation he requested that Joe Mamasela, who was at that time based in the North West area, be brought to Durban. This was done; Mamasela was released and sent to Durban to be part of the squad;
... 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 ...
MR ROSSOUW: You have now heard testimony that there was an operation in the Eastern Transvaal, on the Swaziland border and members of Vlakplaas returned back to Vlakplaas. Were you among these persons who returned from Swaziland, the Eastern Transvaal?
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