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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 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.
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.
... He is here GRANTED amnesty for conspiracy to murder members of the African National Congress ("ANC") in Mozambique during or about 1989, which operation was aborted after ANC cadres became aware of the presence of the bomb in the kombi. No person was injured. According to the Applicant, ...
... was unknown to me, we drove trough farms and these policemen who are in the front of the van were laughing at me. And I still had stitches on my operation so they took me to a Police Station. I then made a request that they should inform my family but they told me that my family knew that I ...
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 ...
CHAIRPERSON: We thank the co-operation that we’ve enjoyed from all the people including the audience in having helped expedite the hearings. We have come to the end of the roll for the week and we therefore adjourn. We reserve our judgment.
... I’m giving you time - I’m going to give you time so that you can think about it, I will come back later and if you don’t want to give us your co-operation I will come and arrest you and take you back to the ...
... throw some teargas at us. I was then transferred to Garankuwa Hospital, and while still attending treatment there, I was supposed to go in for an ...
... was admitted and he said if I am taken into that ward Marisa will live. I was really transferred into that ward and I could realise that Marisa's operation was from the chest downwards and her father requested me to come closer to her and speak to her and I said "Marisa, Marisa" and then she ...
... 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 ...
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.
They stated that if they had found that the area was used at night, they would have abandoned the operation.
... picked up by a person whom the Applicant was unable to remember, but soon thereafter, Captain Pretorius informed him that he had terminated the ...
defending the community. They left for the police station on the 15th December 1993. Their activities were intended to be part and parcel with the operations of the SDU. Duduzi Kubeke was in command of the operation, his nickname is Bla. He was also the overall commander of the Slovo SDU. ...
MR LAMEY: And did you then report any further on the course of the operation?
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 ...
CHAIRPERSON: Also he was Head of Special Ops which was a far bigger operation, this was just a part of it.
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 ...
... 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 ...
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