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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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ADV STEENKAMP: Just a follow-up question. Were you under the impression that Mr Jubber must have known or that he would have known subsequently of the operation that you had been involved with? Is that what you have said?
MR MONG: With Simelane's accommodation and re-orientation at the mentioned farm, we saw to her personal needs, her toiletries, food, new clothing and others, so that we could continue with her co-operation and her attitude.
MR MHLONGO: It was around May. I could not talk to her because she was busy with an operation, harassing the community.
MR LAX: You see, in your affidavit you don't say that you decided to go home, you say you were ordered to go home. That means the operation was over and you were ordered to go home, correct?
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?
MR ROSLEE: Chair I have no idea. I wasn't in any of the meetings, discussions taking place with regard to the infiltration or anything like that. At that stage we were busy running around looking for a bunch of terrorists and I wasn't involved in the nitty-gritty, in the planning of the operation.
JUDGE POTGIETER: Yes, but I don't want to get involved in the niceties of this sort of operation, I just want to know whether it would be effective against those kind of vehicles that I have listed?
MR VISSER: Did you become aware at some stage of a planning of an operation during the middle of 1985, in Botswana?
MR JUBBER: No, Chairperson, except that the information which Insp Pretorius gave, indicating that he was an activist and a suspect who was under our attention and that reports were sent through to head office. I do not have any further knowledge of the operation itself.
MR MKOSANA: No Sir, orders were given. Every soldier knows that he will have an operation that on the 7th of September and then we'll be deployed at the stadium. Everybody was given orders. I've given a warning order to my deputy and then I also to affect my own orders and then I give them to my ...
... 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 ...
... Freedom Party, it is signed by Mr Humphrey Ndlovu, whom I may say one or - I think he had separate counsel for himself but they worked in close co-operation with our learned friends who appear for the objectors: ...
... word execution, quite advisedly here, because that emerged in my trial of at least 3 and possibly 4 of the 7 had all the hallmarks and Koevoet type operation. ...
... identify people who were injured or dead. They took me to Garankuwa Hospital. I stayed there. The doctor said I broke my leg, then they took me to operation. They took me to ...
MRS EMMA KHESWA: At Sebokeng there is nothing that was done to him. He only underwent the operation at Boksburg Hospital.
MR MBANDAZAYO: Is it also correct that your first operation was in 1992?
MR HATTINGH: If Mr de Kock had been present at the time when Mr Mngomezulu was abducted and interrogated no doubt he would have taken charge of the operation, not so?
... Turfontein. The mine was placed behind the bar at the sports ground to ensure that no one was injured in the blast. It was a so-called propaganda operation to let it be known that MK has a presence in the White suburbs. Nobody was injured in the ...
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?
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 ...
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