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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 401 to 420 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 17 •18 •19 •20 •21 •22 •23 •24 •25 Next Page•Last PageMR 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. ... in a situation where they were arrested by the Botswana Police, because you must know that I did not have approval from anyone to execute this ... Van Jaarsveld appeared at the hearing as an implicated person. He denied even taking part in the operation. Significantly though, upon asked to say why he said he did not participate therein, he said that if he did, he would have remembered it as he had a very good memory. He could not remember ... MR LAMEY: How long was this before the first Coin operation? ... meeting McCaskill, and remember now he comes to the post office, he says to you "There are uninvited guests at the house, we have to call off the operation", you say to him "This isn't a time to pull out", you send him away, he comes back, what is it, half an hour, and hour ... ... 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 ... ... Director of Research and Development in your Head Office on the 1st of October 1988. Would that be the position, even subsequent to that with the operation of Project Coast, that you exercised personal control over Brigadier ... He says he's referring to the taxi and busses war. I told him that the conflict between the taxis and busses has been resolved and they are now in operation peacefully. As we were talking, the white man who was using the machine left, Amos went to the ATM machine. His words disturbed me as he ... 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? "All the operations that Rafiq undertook and that are referred to in his statement, were discussed at length with me prior to his embarking thereon. Rafiq reported back to me after each operation, with the exception of the CR Swart Square explosion. I in turn reported to Rashid. MR MTHWANA: No, listen. I know that there was a vigilante group in operation, but I do not know how Zwe was killed because at the time I was in prison. The facts and circumstances of this operation have been dealt with fully in the decision of Wandrag and others reported under AM4363/96; 4379/96; 7121/97; 7235/97; 4374/96; 7739/96; 7090/97; 4398/96; 4364/96; 5002/97 and 5000/97 decision in which amnesty was granted. 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. ADV VISSER: Now, were any of his orders conveyed to you as to what was the purpose and objective of this operation and what is to be done with the six people? MR BOOYENS: And during this interrogation, did the deceased give his co-operation immediately, or did you have to force him to do that? CHAIRPERSON: Can you just tell me, who was in command of this operation? 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 ... They asked me, did I prefer the skin graft to be taken from the thigh or from the rectum. I refer to come from the thigh and then they did the operation that where I received my skin graft. obtained permission from Middelburg Regional Office, for our mini-bus to be used and that Colonel De Kock from Vlakplaas would be in command of this operation. Seeing as I was at that stage the Commander of Witbank Security Branch, I took the decision to drive the bus to Piet Retief ... ... 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 ... |