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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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MR DU TOIT: The first inference that I drew was that this would be used for an offensive action and secondly, that this would be used in a cross-border operation because of the great deal of trouble that went into the packing of these items.
FURTHER EXAMINATION BY MR LAMEY: Mr Mosiane I think perhaps you should only - in this incident would you also - can you just clarify for us, that is the next ...(indistinct - background noise) incident that we're dealing with. You referred here to another operation
MR VISSER: Thank you. Were you ever informed of any operation in which Mbulelo Ngono was involved in, in South Africa, or one of the so-called home States, homelands?
MR BIZOS: It has been suggested that the information that reached Mr Verster, the Director of this Civil Co-operation, ...(indistinct), that the information that reached him that you were a bunch of gangsters ...
... of the sentence says: "the applicant was never a member of the security branch, Northern Transvaal and as such, was never a trusted member of the operation". So, it’s just an added part of the sentence which could have been left out ...
MR RATHMAN: And what I want to know is how long did this whole operation take, this whole attack in which you were involved?
MR WILLS: Why did you not investigate more thoroughly or plan your operation more thoroughly to ensure that the people who you killed and injured were the people who you intended to kill and injure?
MR MAPOMA: And I take it that he never gave you instructions to go into that operation, am I correct?
I thought you did not want anyone to be aware of your intention to kill Mr Phumayo, least it leaks out? I thought you were the only one who was going to be involved in this operation, and nobody else?
M TYOBEKA: The following day after the operation, before the police came, the Doctor showed me my X-Ray plates. I was scared because I could see some object in my stomach.
MR NGCAMLA: My request is that I have three cracks in my right arm and I had an operation in my chest and I could not work. My children want money, everything wants
Mr Potgieter: Just to be more specific General, in regard to an issue that enjoys our attention, the former Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB). From your perspective should there be any difficulty for the Commission in gaining access to records relating to that organisation.
... Dumile and Thabiso who was driving the getaway car. He did not report the incident to anybody and assumed that Thabiso, who was in command of the operation, would do so. He, the Applicant, did not derive any personal benefit from the ...
There is no indication that the Applicant acted out of a personal grudge against the deceased. There is also no evidence that he personally benefitted from the operation. We are satisfied that he is entitled to amnesty.
... of people to assist him in executing this task. A decision was taken that Sibiya should be the first target to be attacked. The plan was put into operation on the day of the incident being 3 May 1994. Second Applicant and the group of combatants whom he had selected to assist him, proceeded to ...
... who was actually, the person who was there, I think he was called Colonel Piet Greyling, he was the man who was the chief there, but the entire operation was run by General Johan Coetzee. I have nothing against him. I mean, he didn't ill-treat me. But then I think, being such an academic man, ...
MR LEWIN: From what you tell us it must have been a very well planned operation if it was in fact deliberate and it was an ambush.
MR TOBEZWENI: They were in my ankle. So I would like the Commission to help me, but I am scared of getting another operation. Maybe I will be paralysed.
A statement has also been prepared in Xhoza, as a matter of fact as the two applicants had been operating together, carrying out, virtually the same operation, their statements are virtually the ...
So, all the time they would call me to their office to reprimand me and I could cry in front of the management. Even the operation gave me some problems and this I reported to the manager but he ignored it.
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