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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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All three are - well one is a journalist, two are law students and they are working in co-operation with NADEL in South Africa and the National Lawyers Guild and the National Conference of Black Lawyers in the United States of America. We’re very pleased to have then with us for a while.
commanders they should have went further and questioned: "Why do you instruct us to do certain things, tell us the policy which supports the type of operation which you want us to engage in." Mr Chairman, it has been made very clear here that they were not allowed to ask such ...
MR LABUSCHAGNE: Yes, Chairperson, I did. And because I was aware of that fact ,before we executed any operation we always had a prayer and we asked that no-one should be killed or injured.
You and Mr Breytenbach, the other applicant then executed a certain operation in Bultfontein.
... Applicant, asking what they wanted, 1st Applicant shot Mr Makhathini twice.  He died as a result.  They then left the scene and again the operation was reported to ...
... Cape and spread to Gauteng, specifically Soweto, where AZAPO members and supporters were targeted and attacked. Explaining the reason for the operation which led to the attack of the security guard, the applicant said they needed arms to protect themselves. Moreover, as part of the ...
person, they didn't tell me my eye was closed, I couldn't even see because I didn't have a mirror. When I asked the Doctor who had taken me for an operation, he then explained to me the one who was interpreting explained and said Daphne, it is painful whatever happened to you, you must just ...
a car registration number which would help with the identification, a description of the person, photographs of him, standard part and parcel of our operation. If I have mentioned after the fact that Ms Hirshman did make a reference to Mr Madhav, that is true. There is no - I'm a little bit lost ...
ADV PRINSLOO: Did you in any way train Mr Froneman with regard to the operation of the explosive devices?
... being injured and this police came to us and asked us why are they assaulting you, why are they beaing you up. We said we don't know. I had an operation. They kicked us ...
... 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 ...
ADV GCABASHE: So when you were in command of a particular operation you never split up into sub-groups, it's this one group that would follow the IFP chaps who had been attacking you, one group?
... that you could shoot into the hostels across the road. That is just as an example, but were you ever involved in giving SDU units that were on an operation ...
In consequence of these activities of the SDU, the applicant was at some time during the operation of the SDU in unlawful possession of a firearm and an undetermined amount of ammunition.
... us. Even if the arrests happened before we achieved our objective. It was in 1985 when we were still planning to bring the consumer boycott into operation, as we know that even before Judas Iscariot was there. I was arrested on the 12th of September, and therefore our plans to continue with ...
in order to induce submission to the taking of the vehicle and a shot went off unexpectedly. He was not aware that the gun was cocked. During this operation, the applicant was accompanied by people he only knew as Daizer Xaba and John ...
... while the words code of conduct suggest a strong and finite, defined set of principles to act by, in the situation it wasn't a proper military operation and therefore the code of conduct is not as simple as; did a person act in or outside that code of conduct. And that is why the ...
... against the very persons whom you had undertaken to protect, do you seriously want this Committee to believe that if he had not given his co-operation to you and your colleagues, that it was not reasonably foreseeable that he would be killed or at the very least seriously ...
... 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, ...
MS VAN DER WALT: And any other offence which might flow from your actions of the operation there at Nerston?
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