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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation MS MTANGA: Coming to the incident of the 14th September 1992, can you tell the Committee when and how did you plan that operation? When did you think of carrying it out and how did you plan how you were going to go about it? MR WHEELER: Yes, through my conclusions, I thought that we were assisting them in this operation or war, as they called it, we assisted them, I thought so. ... beaten, his head was swollen. His right ear was swollen, his eye was swollen, he was bleeding badly - the doctor said he was going to give him an operation - he will try his best to make him survive. He said he will try his utmost best to make him survive, he said he’ll try his utmost ... ... not find him then we went to the hospital. I was just attended to and giving medicine and pills whereas Mamakie was hospitalised and underwent an operation. The bullet was not removed and gave me problems. I underwent an operation under the influence of Doctor ... Vlakplaas and reported to de Kock. He says that he reported to Engelbrecht. De Kock says he gave Nortje the balance of the cash left over from the operation in the sum of approximately R2000.00. This was confirmed by Nortje. However, it is apparent to us that Nortje had no expectation with ... ... programmes and it is abundantly clear, I would submit with respect, that the only reason why the deceased was approached was his lack of co-operation with these political programmes. And it was in that spur of the moment when he was confronted by his lack of co-operation, that he decided ... ADV VISSER: Can you tell the Committee in your own words, how you became involved in this operation, referred to as an operation, and what your part in it was? As long as we know what the main moments and features of the operation were, and those were that all these applicants who appeared before you, were there in a supporting capacity. Really one would always be tempted to think that if it hadn't been for SWT180, they wouldn't have been involved at ... ... his offer and that event co-incided with the statement from ANC in exile saying that it will now train ANC cadres inside the country and duty operation, we were prepared to liberate our country by all means necessary. So through Valley who was the local co-ordinator, these guys came, Mike, ... ... condemned this terrible act and whether they still permit people to be members of their party and whether that party, the IFP, will give their co-operation to the police in ensuring that these people are brought to justice. We have seen many people like yourself who - or we have taken many ... MR FIHLA: If I recall, I got to know aboutthis operation in 1993 when a report on our casualties was given by the thenDirector of Operations, Comrade Lethlapa Mpahlela. Because we all the timehad to look at the operations to look if definitely they fell within the ambitand the mandate of the ... "During or about 1986, the house of a certain Jafta family in Willowvale, was burnt by the Security Police. This was an operation by members of the Transkeian Defence Force, under the command of Lieut Mandela, Transkei Anti-Riot Unit, East London Security Branch, under the command of Capt de Lange ... MR VISSER: Alright. Would that be a fund or a payment when an MK cadre was going to start a new operation? MR NEL: Paragraph 14, Mr Hanton, you deal with the incident in question, where you received instructions from Col de Kock regarding what you had to do, and you say there that you believed that the authority to take part in the operation, emanated from higher authority. "That's correct, but the operation started after the conversation with Col van Rensburg." MR RAUTENBACH: Now what I would like to know from you, Mr Bosch, is that when you discussed this matter with Mr de Kock, you certainly would have discussed certain aspects such as how this operation will be executed, who will wrap the parcel, who will write the addresses on it. MR LAX: Yes, I understand that being the motive of the operation, but I want you to turn to page, do you have the documents in front of you, page 3? Page 3 forms part of your amnesty application, dated the 25th of April 1997. The date is on the previous page, the page after that. MR NKUNA: It is not me who said he shall be attacked, but Soli suggested it because they were at Joe's house and they were there to see that that kind of an operation is being undertaken to attack an informer or a traitor. ... something had to be done. The decision to eliminate Mangane was then taken, with the further approval of the late Chris Hani to whom the Swaziland operation was directly ... ... which had to be studied by the Security Branch. As they entered the building, Applicant and his colleagues were shot at and had to abort the operation. A window and one downpipe were damaged during the ... |
