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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 NEL: Is it also then correct that you were part of a number of investigators who were at the time busy with interrogation inter alia of Mr Gordhan with regards to what as known then as Operation Vula?
MR LEKABE: I think I have alluded to the fact that the situation in Katlehong was to such an extent that co-operation was not possible between the police and the community so it was my duty to inform the bigger organisation which is SANCO or rather the Civic.
... to them so that they should be ... (inaudible) ... in the process, in the ongoing process. Those people should continue when your term of an operation comes to an end as at the end of this year, so that those people, the church and others, especially those which are influential, should ...
HOT PURSUIT OF OPERATION AT JOZINI
DR KLATZOW: You were the man in charge of running that operation that night, from a flight crew point of view. You weren't the Chief Executive Officer but as an operational man, a flying man, you were the most senior man there that night?
and address the meeting. We went to that meeting and I came back. We organised a programme of action in which we wanted to implement some clean-up operation as the youth of that residential area, and we wanted to clean that residential area to show the councillors that they had failed in their ...
A statement has also been prepared in Xhoza, as a matter of fact as the two applicants had been operating together, carrying out, virtually the same operation, their statements are virtually the ...
... we did at that time and it is more clearly stipulated in that. It was not necessary for us to verify all the information that we received from the operational wing, it was not our task to evaluate to the extent that we were put in a position where we had to decide whether or not such an ...
... six months in hospital. I have thirteen pins in my body. A doctor from overseas, Doctor Floris, treated me. My leg wasn’t straight after the operation and this doctor came and helped me. I thank this doctor because if it wasn’t for him my leg would have to have been amputated. He ...
... station. Shots were fired from the police at NU 13 and the people dispersed. As my car was damaged I asked the man in authority of the whole operation to summons a finger print expert to come. Photographs were taken and I opened a case. I don’t know anything about this man being shot, ...
MR VISSER: What would members of your branch have done in participation in this operation?
... operated on your husband is one of the people that has applied for amnesty, according to your evidence, his life had deteriorated because of this ...
MR MAPOMA: And I take it that he never gave you instructions to go into that operation, am I correct?
CHAIRPERSON: The question was when you were instructed to steal cars for the Ntuli operation was Mr Thulani Mlaba present?
go to the toilet and had no appetite at all. However, gradually I managed to get back. My heart was torn apart, because each time I looked at this operation I felt like ...
operation.
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.
... up people to have them shot, that you set them up in a robbery merely to shoot them. If you were to think back, would you have continued with the operation if these persons had not indicated any intention to commit a robbery and if there had not been any information that they had committed ...
operation.
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.
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