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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 841 to 860 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 39 •40 •41 •42 •43 •44 •45 •46 •47 Next Page•Last Pagerelated to the political atmosphere of South Africa at the time. Coupled with that was the instruction to resist all hurdles to this particular ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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. 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 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. ... 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 relied on this information and in pursuance thereof, put their plan into operation. A bomb was then placed in the Wimpy Bar Restaurant at Benoni. Some time thereafter it exploded causing extensive damage, the death of a person and injuries to others. The operation was planned for the night of 5/6 March 1994 but unbeknown to the applicants the police was tipped-off, allegedly by Pedlar. Reinforcements were sent to the police and what was foreseen as an easy task, became a shoot-out in which Mr Jaggers was killed and Messrs Nyanguna and ... sustained. Please remove your headphones. Turn around so that we can see the wounds on your back. Lift up your clothing. Is that the scar of the operation that you underwent at ... ADV ARENDSE: Ja in fact Mr Sibaya I want to tell you that on that evening of the operation at Heidelberg they were operating under different names, did you hear the name Khayalethu that evening, Khayalethu, K-H-A-Y-A-L-E-T-H-U, did you hear that name? CHAIRPERSON: I would like to request everyone’s co-operation. The question being put by Reverend Xundu, if I understand it correctly, is that he wants to know if you had any knowledge of the fact that people did object to the presence of councillors. MRS MTHOMBENI: There was no co-operation during that time. There was some misunderstanding at that time. If perhaps a school child could die, people were marching, teachers did not actually conduct the normal classes. So there were a lot of disturbances. The police were always surrounding the ... ... to come forward and disclose, but if they do not avail themselves of that opportunity then of the course the Laws of the country will be put into operation. So we can assure you that the names which you mentioned, that we are aware of these issues, that many of these issues are under ... 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. In terms of the matters of operation in the underground, it was vital that we needed to delay the matter so as to test the trustworthiness and commitment of Modise, the Rustenburg based activist. In the mean time we kept on supplying Modise with more political literature to acclimatise himself ... MR WILLS: And you used - for this purpose you used the 9mm pistol that you had got for the operation, is that right? ADV GCABASHE: Was there a particular commander in charge of this operation? |
