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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 planning as set out in the paragraphs in the statement were put into operation. The Ciskei defence force members were also deployed in terms of our planning. The Bisho stadium was occupied by them. The Ciskei police force members were put in position about 9 o'clock about 100 metres from ...
MR BOTHA: There could have been more vehicles Chairperson because while we waited at kwaMashu police station, more members from the South African police arrived to participate in this operation.
MR GOUWS: Yes, that is correct. Well he must have obtained permission from Mr de Kock, it was his operation, so he must have had his own orders.
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 ...
... picked up by a person whom the Applicant was unable to remember, but soon thereafter, Captain Pretorius informed him that he had terminated the ...
They stated that if they had found that the area was used at night, they would have abandoned the operation.
MR WILLS: And you used - for this purpose you used the 9mm pistol that you had got for the operation, is that right?
DR VAN RENSBURG: Not at all Mr Chairman, I merely related what I had heard from Dr Immelman and the extract I had read in the newspaper. There was never any other talk of any operation at the institute against Mr Mandela, neither was there any positive action that I know of.
Do you feel that you still need - you should see a doctor? Do you want to see a doctor? Are you still suffering in such a way that you need to see a doctor? --- Yes, I think doctors will be of great help. I do feel pains from my operation. It tells me I am - something is not yet right.
MR BOTHA: I don't know what they knew, Chairperson, but I found insightful when I thought of Maj de Kock's evidence, or one of the applicants, that the army was busy planning the same operation and then the police decided to do their own thing and did not communicate this with the army.
... Also they said I must relate to the Committee the fact that they have sustained injuries. Yvonne Madlala informed me that she had to have an operation after this incident, after she sustained injuries, and she could not bear children any more. Esrom Mothagu informed me that ...
... was asked inter alia to deal with this incident and he dealt with it, and you will recall that he said that he regarded it as a State action, State operation which was formally approved and authorised by the State Security Council and therefore he's not asking for ...
... communicated with you or with the TRC offices in Cape Town to ascertain that he was legitimately required here. And I think that their lack of co-operation is something to be ...
MRS LEGODI: I don't know anything, but his operation was not so big where they removed the bullet. It was just a small wound.
... go back there because what I came to do, I did not do. What I’m trying to say is that I’m sorry for joining the ANC because I’m crippled, I had an operation in my hand but my muscles were injured and I cannot do anything now. This was because I was accused of this. I would still like the ANC ...
MR MATHIBELA: Yes I went to the lawyers to Mr Sad Kachalia, I claimed and I wanted to be compensated because I had an operation, and he told me I was going to be compensated. Actually I wanted to sue those people, so later on I told them I want to be compensated, that's what I told the lawyers at ...
... to a fair trial accrue only to an accused person. The recalcitrant examinee who on refusing or failing to answer a question triggers the possible operation of the imprisonment provisions of Section (1)(89)(1), is not in my view an accused person. 'For purposes of the protection afforded of ...
go to the toilet and had no appetite at all. However, gradually I managed to get back. My heart was torn apart, because each time I looked at this operation I felt like ...
MS MAHLOPHE: Yes, she's got scars on her head and her neck and the operation on the throat her whole stomach - they shot her in the stomach.
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