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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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the deceased on 8 May 1985 and their subsequent killing by other members of the Security Police on the 9th or 10th of May was in fact one continuous operation or not would depend largely on the evidence of what transpired over the relevant period. It should also be kept in mind that it is ...
the persons inside the shop. They escaped from the scene in their vehicle which waited for them outside the shop. They reported the success of the operation to Mtambo and also returned the weapons which he supplied. The Applicants and Mbambo were subsequently arrested and tried. Mbambo was ...
MR LUFF: I really cannot comment on what Mrs Hardy did, but it is possible. It is possible that there was a curfew in operation at the time, but I cannot recall that.
colleagues, I fully agree with them and I think that Mr Willemse who was, I believe, the most junior ranking person involved in the execution of the operation, he was a sergeant at the time at Vlakplaas, the same applies as far as he's a foot soldier is concerned, Mr Chairman. I therefore submit, ...
CHAIRPERSON: What were their positions? How do they fit into this whole operation?
"When those young boys were arrested they were arrested by the army unit and the police unit, Security Police, and that was a joint operation and we did it here into Botasxau. It was late in the evening. That is when they were arrested and they told us about their intentions. They were going to ...
MR MOERANE: Who were in the units with whom you planned this operation?
"Look, we've got our target, the policeman" and an hour later they have their weapons and they go into the house. It just seems that to arrange an operation like this, there had to be some form of planning and it seems clear, Chairperson, that yes, Mr Andrew Chauke did go to that house, he did ...
MR MALAN: Let me just ask you a question which I have in my mind. One cannot help but wonder whether that explosion which occurred on the evening of the 4th, was that not a false flag operation which you undertook there, you didn't cause that explosion to occur yourself?
before the committee it was placed before the committee, I understood, as sort of contributory evidence that in fact there was a planning of such an operation. That's the first statement that I want to make, but if cognisance is taken of the cognisance is taken of the contents, it is clear from ...
... or questioning from me that if one Andy Taylor was in the security police in Durban at the time, then he would certainly have been involved in the operation. It isn't surprising that my father's murder would have been discussed at social events, amongst the community of people who had spent so ...
... He was ill. Even the community is aware of that. Eventually the doctors sent him to Groote Schuur. He was operated on there. This is the very operation that made his health deteriorate. It is the way he was ill-treated in jail that he is dead today. It is a tragedy that my husband had to ...
... medical communities, social welfare community, White community. Whatever is set up must be well publicised in setting up period and once it is all operation. Once victims' immediate needs are being cared for the other devices can promote healing are job creation, commemorative events, erecting ...
... ANC's armed struggle. The applicant never made any contact with the recruits. Neither did he know who they were but he would receive reports that operations had been carried out. He did not always receive such reports because initially reports were sent to his superior "Naledi Molefe". When ...
Mr Ngo implicated Coetzee, Ramosoeu and Bester as the persons being involved in the operation to damage the clinic. Coetzee is implicated only as far as the instructions are concerned. Bester and Ramosoeu carried out the throwing of some kind of explosive, while he (Mr Ngo) remained at the car. ...
ADV MPSHE: Now, when you were told of the operation and you accompanied applicant number one, in your own mind what did you think the killing of Lombo would assist you with?
particular expression of grief and morning in different cultures and the understanding of this will lead to a greater therapeutic or counselling co-operation and the acknowledge of rituals needed to help people transcend certain phases of their lives being blocked like for instance some of the ...
Your only participation in this operation was that you transported people for about 400 metres to the scene where the explosions took place and where they damaged the property of Mr Nyathikazi?
Operation Vula for example was planned and was operating I think, I cannot remember the date, but clearly there was a lot of mistrust between what the police were actually doing and what the South African government's apartheid Security Forces were doing, and there were certainly counter-action ...
MR COETZEE: Once I had arrived at Brig Schoon's office, he informed me that the South African Defence Force were looking for a reason to launch an operation against an ANC facility in Botswana.
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