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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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CHAIRPERSON: Yes, I think it is quite clear that they were operating as MK members, on an operation.
and left these policemen and when we came back from the doctor I continued with giving them the statement and they left. After having undergone the operation they called the hostel superintendent saying that he must come and call me, I couldn't go because I was confined to bed for ten days. As ...
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.
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.
ADV BOSMAN: And perhaps it's not fair to ask you this, but why did Mr Taylor, in your mind, summon du Preez to this operation, which fell outside of his normal activities?
CHAIRPERSON: I'm at a loss. And you have just stated and confirmed that you knew you were going to use firearms, you knew before the operation got underway, during the planning, that you were going to use firearms. By your own admission you couldn't have undertaken a mission of this nature ...
... comrades, and rebut suspicions that his police stepfather was using him as an informer, he agreed.  On the day they were going to carry out the operation he tried to escape but unfortunately for him he met them on the way.  It was Sifiso Kwela and Maxwell Ndluyake.  They asked him where ...
... go to consult your Commander and say can I get an order to go and protect, so it only happens you know, sometimes when they had to sort of plan an operation. I think if you go through the submission there is a place where I mention a Small, a guy by the name of Small, who was very short. He ...
The Applicant was a member of the Special Operations Unit of Umkhonto weSizwe. During May 1983 she received instructions from her superior officer, one Aboobaker Ismail, to drive a motor vehicle which had been primed with explosives from Swaziland to a specified place in Pretoria. She drove the ...
... the Republic of South Africa and upon the orders of Mr Joe Modise. The Applicant was a member of the unit responsible for the execution of the operation of which the commander was General Lombard Moloi. The Applicant himself was tasked to "plant the shells of the mortars". The objective of ...
Although they were not in the same unit, wherever members of the different units were working together they obeyed the order of the senior officer in charge of the specific operation.
... Offices to demonstrate the ANC's solidarity with the protesters. Their intention was not to injure any people, so they decided to carry out the operation after closing hours when the employees have left the ...
MR PETER: My request is that I should get medical treatment because the operation I had gives trouble.
... to assure you that the session will be conducted in as a professionally manner as possible and we are very pleased that you have indicated your co-operation by being here to start with. And I would like to take the view that, that is the sort of spirit that is going to prevail throughout the ...
ADV VISSER: And lastly also in your application, you also incorporated Mr Erwee's application in so far as it relates to the facts of this particular operation on that date?
MR NYAWUZA: And how many of you were to undertake this operation, not the hijacking, the attack on this army base?
MS BUYA: I was not in the leadership, it was just the way we used to do things. If there was something people would go door to door and ask for co-operation so you were forced to be members of any organisation.
MR MONAKALI: I could see my muscles and bones. There was an operation, grafting my skin from my, back of my thigh onto my arm.
They wanted to operate so that they could see properly, they did so. On that evening, the same Thursday, that is when they operated. He did not survive the operation.
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?
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