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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 521 to 540 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 23 •24 •25 •26 •27 •28 •29 •30 •31 Next Page•Last Page... the day otherwise I vomit all the food I take in. Once a month a specialist comes to Saldanha, Dr Luyt, and he says - he said I need another operation to be completely healed. This operation will cost about R9,000-00, I said to him in that case I will have to die because I do not have ... ... and Van Rensburg to decide who to involve amongst other security policemen. He later became aware that they were going to involve Nieuwoudt in the operation. When the abduction took place he was telephonically informed that the two had been abducted and were being conveyed to the place where ... ... duties as a member of the security police. The circumstances relating to the matter can be set out succinctly. Applicant participated in an operation to capture a known African National Congress ("ANC") operative in Swaziland. The operation was unsuccessful and the entire incident ... What happened and what became clear as evidence of things like Operation Marion or Operation Katson from the Eastern Cape made evident, was that the Pretoria government and instruments of the securocrats, were using other political forces such as the IFP from time to time, for their own particular ... ... I would like to tell this Committee that even though I had already pointed out that I had my own soldiers, whenever my soldiers had to go on an operation, they would come to me, pick the guns up and go and conduct the operation, then come back, leave the guns with me. The guns had been ... on the floor and I had an operation and I complained about this operation. I told them I am not able to sleep at night and I asked them to take me to the doctor and they promised me to do so. 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. CHAIRPERSON: I don't know why you have difficulty with the question. The question is simple, in your activities that night, there was an operation in progress, there were four of you. All I am asking is, did this policemen die as a result of what you and your colleagues did during that operation ... MR VALLIHU: Well I did have knowledge of the operation, intended operation, but I didn't participate. MR NKOSI: There was a unit that was responsible for handling the bombs, and the other were using the hammer. There was operation Shiza and operation Delisa. DR BORAINE: Thank you very much for your help and co-operation. The story you have to tell is a very distressing one, and we want you to know that we are sympathetic towards you, and are hoping that you will feel relaxed as much as possible as you tell this story, and I am going to hand over to my ... CHAIRPERSON: Yes, I think it is quite clear that they were operating as MK members, on an operation. The purpose, explained by Hechter at the commencement of the operation, was to obtain information from him and thereafter to kill him, the Applicant and Selahle strangling him with a piece of wire. He refused to co-operate. Selahle and the Applicant were then ordered to kill him by ... When we entered, we instructed them to lay down. Mr Ngwenya led us in the operation. Then Mr le Krish volunteered to show us where the safes are, where guns are put. He went there, then he informed us that he is not able to find the keys. Then Mrs le Krish told us that she would go and ask ... MR NYAWUZA: And how many of you were to undertake this operation, not the hijacking, the attack on this army base? We turn now to the murders. It is clear from the evidence that there had been no prior discussion as to the killing of any person during this operation. There was no suggestion in the evidence that this was regarded as a political objective within their express or implied authority. The second ... MR VAN DYK: That is correct. I wouldn't say that his courage failed him completely, I think perhaps he didn't want to carry on with the operation, but after we spoke we then together, both of us went to the wooden house. MRS NKOSI: Yes, he did, because even the establishment, he was a member in the struggle like in the WCCA and we asked his co-operation, and he was always co-operating with us. MR RICHARD: The price of eggs in this relation is that there was intimidation of Mr Ramatolo to some extent, that he didn't have the option to simply drop off the informing operation. The witness has denied that there was any such ...(intervention) comrades, and rebut suspicions that his police stepfather was using him as an informer, he agreed. On the day they were going to carry out the operation he tried to escape but unfortunately for him he met them on the way. It was Sifiso Kwela and Maxwell Ndluyake. They asked him where ... |
