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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 481 to 500 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 21 •22 •23 •24 •25 •26 •27 •28 •29 Next Page•Last PageMR SIMELANE: I gave him the instructions after I was recalled from Italy to lead the special operation. This was broadly discussed with my superior in Lusaka, after my return from Italy as ANC representative and I was given this responsibility of the leading the special operation. MR WILLS: Now, you said in your affidavit that you were told that you were going to assist in the operation to kill Mr Lombo prior to the operation. Is that correct? ... They were as if they were chopped. He came back in. He wasangry with me. He used this stick furthermore to hit me, and I told him, "Sir,I have an operation, I have an appendix operation." When I saidthat to him I was really giving him the freedom to do whatever he wanted todo. He left me. They ... ... the Applicant was a member of the Vlakplaas Unit of the Security Branch he received instructions from his senior Eugene de Kock to assist in an operation of the so-called Stratcom section, also of the Security Branch. This involved an attack on a house in Soutpansberg Road in Queenswood, ... ... they summoned us that we've got to finish. We wouldn't want to put anybody through what we are doing right now, but I say with some little co-operation, let's all do it because we are prepared to hear every applicant who is outstanding and that goes for the other applicants that tomorrow we ... The applicant says in carrying out the operation he was acting on the orders of the commander, Odeille "Mainstay" Maponya who died on the same day whilst trying to execute another limpet mine explosion which prematurely went off. A few minutes before that the two had met and decided that they ... By 15 October 1992 the applicant had sufficient information and went out that night on an operation in search of the ANC ring leaders. The operation was unsuccessful. Applicant said that on 17 October 1992 he eventually did locate the deceased and another person at a shop. He said that the ... ... unit, received an instruction to investigate. They did not question me. I merely submitted a report. The special task force was to conduct the operation jointly with us because the bomb was designed by them and that is how they were involved in the whole operation. Mbokoto operated in the ... The only operation which was carried out by this unit was the operation on 21 May 1988 in which a police van was ambushed and attacked on the railway line which separates Dube and Meadowlands in Soweto. MR VALLIHU: Well I did have knowledge of the operation, intended operation, but I didn't participate. ... on the same night during 1992. When giving evidence in chief he stated that he, Simpiwe Ntombela, Sikhosiphi Mdunge and Nkanyiso Ndlovu went on an operation to attack the house of one Mlambo. On their way to the house they saw a number of soldiers and decided to abort the operation. On their ... ... engaged the services of Mr Webster, who has been prepared to deal with the matter on fairly short notice. And that, I must add, is the kind of co-operation that we normally get from the attorneys and the other legal representatives in dealing with the matters that we have to deal with, and ... ... - when the shooting incident took place. Then it also says: Now Captain Southy is - he is now a Captain - Police Station had been turned into an operational center on 24-11-90 and that the Officer commanding the operation was the now Senior Superintendent Hagen - another police officer - he ... MR VISSER: On page 4 you have also referred to the meeting at Potchefstroom during which you were also present. Whose operation was this actually? The operation with regard to Leeuwpark and the Oasis Motel? Furthermore it is common cause that the Toaster Gang remained in operation in Tembisa in 1993 and her evidence that the gang was no longer in operation at the time of he son's killing cannot be accepted. ... Swazi Police near Pigs Peak. Although the weapons were hidden in the body of the vehicle the police did not find them. In the circumstances the operation had to be aborted. The arms were later retrieved by Floris and Lotz, other Vlakplaas Unit members. According to De Kock the arms were ... MR BOOYENS: You also heard the evidence given here by Minister Vlok the former Commissioner of Police and the other person who was in charge of this operation as far as the political motivation of this operation was concerned, do you associate yourself with that? MR NKOSI: Mr Chairperson, Stanza had a problem of sinuses and in fact at the time of arrest he had undergone an operation and was recuperating from that operation. I do not know if he had any heart condition. The incident arose from an operation planned by the Security Police to arrest certain suspect gun-runners. The police officers dealing with them were referred to as Ovambos, that is persons from outside the country who had been members of Koevoet and who were now stationed at Vlakplaas. The ... Applicant confirmed that the attack was the first operation carried out by the Gauteng Special Operations structure and that the operatives were members of an Apla unit under his command. He stated unequivocally that no members of the ANC were involved in the operation and that the members of the ... |