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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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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 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 ...
related to the political atmosphere of South Africa at the time.  Coupled with that was the instruction to resist all hurdles to this particular ...
... picked up by a person whom the Applicant was unable to remember, but soon thereafter, Captain Pretorius informed him that he had terminated the ...
... de Jongh and someone by the name of Pastoors. We took the weapons, it included components for two vehicle bombs which were meant for a military operation in Boksburg and another one in Springs ...
MR LAMEY: Chairperson, I'm not sure the observation that he refers to refers to the period immediately before operation was launched, or whether it was some other time which Mr Ras has referred to.
MR MANASOE: I only know about alcohol and then later I knew about the taxi operation.
MR JANSEN: And did you think that your operation had something specifically to do with the investigation of his murder?
At the time of the incident he was based in Kimberley. He was working in close co-operation with the members of the Regional and Local Peace Committee, and with the Regional co-ordinator of the Peace Secretariat for the Northern Cape, Adv Jean Nel.
MR STUART: What did you then do to put that plan into operation?
... of personal malice, ill-will or spite directed against the victim, we submit that this is an appropriate case which this proviso should be put into operation. The evidence that he punched another police officer, the fact that they would not allow him to sit on a chair because he was a black ...
... and make salient reference because all in all we were inundated with something like fourteen volumes of lever arch files. We would welcome your co-operation in that regard. ...
MR MWELASE: I learned about that when I went to the TRC and they inquired about operations that I'd been involved in. That was when I stated to them that I'd been involved in an operation where a person was abducted in Durban. I did not remember the specific date but from the people who took down ...
CHAIRPERSON: Yes I'm questioning your co-operation, I know that we don't have any problems with that.
MR LEWIN: You have explained to us the circumstances of his leaving and why you were surprised, did you ever get any indication from him or from any of the other people who came back to talk to you of what operation they might have been involved in?
... 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 ...
What was meant to be a secret was the fact that it was a covert military operation ...[indistinct] and that some of the, a front company and that we were doing covert work for the military, that of course was secret.
... according to the evidence of the Applicants given at the hearing, thereafter relayed the order to the other Applicants and they planned an operation to carry out such orders. During the night of 4th June 1993 the 1st and 2nd Applicant decided to go on a patrol. They went to a shopping ...
Earlier in the morning of the operation the first and third applicants drove to the Johannesburg Magistrates Court where the first applicant secured a suitable parking spot for the golf from which he, in terms of the agreed plan, would detonate the bombs. Thereafter the third applicant drove the ...
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