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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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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?
MR MAPOMA: Now when the briefing was made, a final briefing before you went to, for the operation, you never met with him?
CHAIRPERSON: Tell me, his arrest near Grahamstown was put into operation, or succeeded with because of a roadblock as I understand, not so?
... 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. ...
... 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.
... 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 ...
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 ...
I also want you to consider the following because I have difficulty applying the Act when you mention all these people, new names, etc, because yesterday I thought we had exhausted everybody now, so that it gave the Panel a chance to set investigations into operation. Now we've got new names?
... 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 ...
- 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;
"I had heard of allegations of former colleagues of mine, that I was involved with the discussions and planning beforehand of this 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.
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:
MR HANTON: No, I heard it the day of the operation.
MR SNYDERS: Chairperson, approximately 18H00 or 19H00 we arrived at Vlakplaas after we went to Swaziland for an operation.
MR CUBA: The PAC structures work hand in hand in whatever operation that they undertake.
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