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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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ADV STEENKAMP: Can you give us an idea or indication who was actually in charge of this operation.
... country at the time. When the person was picked up, it never occurred to him that the person could be seriously or fatally injured, but the whole operation went wrong when the deceased told them that he would return to the white area and an argument followed resulting in assaults and the ...
DR MGOJO: Did you undergo any operation?
MR VISSER: What would members of your branch have done in participation in this operation?
... a few comments. We wish to thank firstly the logistics officers for making this hearing a success and for everything they've done to put it into operation. We wish to thank the interpreters for being in attendance most of the time, or all the time and assisting in ...
... impression that I might be lazy, because I just don’t have a focus. It’s although I go blank and I can’t remember anything. Last year I’ve had a operation to my knee. I’m a [indistinct] , there I asked the doctors to try and establish whether I’ve lie - low or high blood pressure because I ...
... what was happening. He said he could not say a word to me and I am also losing my job as they are saying I am ANC member and I cannot carry on the operation effectively. I decided, no, let it be, whatever can happen. Mum take over, there is nothing more I want to say. ...
... I was only allowed to communicate or talk to the police. There was a lot of pressure put on me from very early that morning. Of course after the operation the television was also present. I was a single parent at that stage and my daughter then was ten years old. In the days proceeding this ...
MR MANTHATA: When you came back, what kind of operation were you doing as an underground agent ?
But that when once the evidence begins to be led, the photographers will have to leave. That has been the ruling and that is the ruling that we still want to uphold. I would therefore like to think that we will have every co-operation from the camera persons as far as that goes.
MR LAMEY: And did you then report any further on the course of the operation?
... told me I don't think it's necessary to fly her up here from Plettenberg Bay, it's too much expense and inconvenience and having regard to the co-operation there has been throughout this hearing, I'm sure that agreement can be ...
CHAIRPERSON: Also he was Head of Special Ops which was a far bigger operation, this was just a part of it.
of the community and they were angry, why they didn't toyi-toyi to her house and deal with her there and then? Why do they settle for the secretive operation here in the middle of the night if this was indeed a political ...
sustained. Please remove your headphones. Turn around so that we can see the wounds on your back. Lift up your clothing. Is that the scar of the operation that you underwent at ...
ADV ARENDSE: Ja in fact Mr Sibaya I want to tell you that on that evening of the operation at Heidelberg they were operating under different names, did you hear the name Khayalethu that evening, Khayalethu, K-H-A-Y-A-L-E-T-H-U, did you hear that name?
ADV GCABASHE: Was there a particular commander in charge of this operation?
In terms of the matters of operation in the underground, it was vital that we needed to delay the matter so as to test the trustworthiness and commitment of Modise, the Rustenburg based activist. In the mean time we kept on supplying Modise with more political literature to acclimatise himself ...
related to the political atmosphere of South Africa at the time.  Coupled with that was the instruction to resist all hurdles to this particular ...
MR STOREY: The Crisis Committee having refused to assist in a habeas corpus operation, left us really in great difficulty about how to proceed, but they did give the assurance - and I think this is where we thought the next step might be - that there would be a calling together of the whole ...
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