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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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... 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 ...
Do you think that you recovered completely after the shooting incident? --- No because it is bad weather, when it is cold and raining, I experience pain and I get told that the inside of where I had the operation, swells up.
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 ...
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.
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?
Then I alighted at Kalafong. They were together with me to accompany me. When we arrived there she was in Ward 9. She had already undergone an operation, but they could not assist her immediately with the wounds that she received. They took her out of the ward and to the Intensive Care Unit. ...
... border.  He was informed that there was a photocopy machined in the Pietersburg office of the Security Branch which had been stolen during an operation.  He assumed that it was a machine stolen from a trade union office.  The Applicant did not disclose his knowledge of the stolen ...
"I was instructed by Col Botha from Durban, to accompany him on an operation to Swaziland. I was informed by him that there was information to hand that an important Umkhonto weSizwe member, Dion Cele, had indicated that he would be willing to work for the Security Branch. And our mission would ...
... come back tomorrow at nine o'clock, when we will start the matter and continue as best we can. Thank you and thank the legal advisors for their co-operation today, we will see them and I presume the other persons who have certain duties to carry out here, tomorrow ...
... was, or the person who was tasked.  If it was a smaller activist and if it was a greater activist like Masuku - I have to refer to the normal operation, I cannot recall the detail there of it.  I can see in Oupa's statement itself, where he says how great an activist he was.  I cannot ...
The kidnapping of August Majola and his girlfriend are closely connected and formed part of the act or arson. We have no hesitation in accepting the applicant's explanation that the kidnapping was done in order to ensure that nobody was injured during the operation.
MR BOOYENS: Mr Coetzee you could not be certain at the stage when you and Nick van Rensburg discussed this that even that Schoon would okay this operation, which on what you describe to me looks like a private enterprise and certainly not anything to do with police work.
The applicant states that whilst he was at the base Swanepoel called all the members into a hall. He told tem that he was planning to launch an operation to recruit someone from the local community as an informer. Different roles were assigned to different members and the place had to be cleared ...
Mr Vermeulen, you have submitted an amnesty application on the prescribed form, in terms of Section 18 of the law and you have given your full co-operation to the investigating officer.
MR DU PLESSIS: And where you say on page 159, you say the same as Mr Hammond, you also mean that during the operation you were not entirely aware of what the political motivation was?
the detail of such an operation be contained in that type of report or would a report be made with regards to
... that he only became aware of it when it was referred to in the criminal trial.)  According to the Applicants Jones told them that the next operation was the Bahai Faith Centre attack.  They were told to kill all white people who were present there.  The following is what ...
MR KOOPEDI: Now did you benefit anything material, you financially, at a personal level for having executed this operation?
MR CILLIER: One of them, Director Henk Hesslinga is not available because he's sick, he underwent an operation.
... 1986, he chose this bar to vent his own personal anger and not because he was ordered to do so. I do not believe that this was an ANC organised operation. Robert McBride is asking the Truth and Reconciliation Committee to dish amnesty onto a silver platter and hand it to ...
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