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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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The 1st Applicant testified that he asked the 2nd Applicant to enlist the assistance of others so that the operation could be put into effect. This was done and Mzwakhe Shandu, the 3rd Applicant, Nyamezela Mkhung (deceased) and Thokozani Ngema were introduced to the Applicant. The plan was ...
away. It is difficult to get a job because of this operation.
... I saw a big open space, there were only beds there and there was a big table in the middle of that hall and there is also a man hopefully it was an operation theatre because [indistinct] they were busy operating him. ...
CHAIRPERSON: What were their positions? How do they fit into this whole operation?
MR LUFF: I really cannot comment on what Mrs Hardy did, but it is possible. It is possible that there was a curfew in operation at the time, but I cannot recall that.
"When those young boys were arrested they were arrested by the army unit and the police unit, Security Police, and that was a joint operation and we did it here into Botasxau. It was late in the evening. That is when they were arrested and they told us about their intentions. They were going to ...
"Look, we've got our target, the policeman" and an hour later they have their weapons and they go into the house. It just seems that to arrange an operation like this, there had to be some form of planning and it seems clear, Chairperson, that yes, Mr Andrew Chauke did go to that house, he did ...
ADV MPSHE: Now, when you were told of the operation and you accompanied applicant number one, in your own mind what did you think the killing of Lombo would assist you with?
MR MOERANE: Who were in the units with whom you planned this operation?
colleagues, I fully agree with them and I think that Mr Willemse who was, I believe, the most junior ranking person involved in the execution of the operation, he was a sergeant at the time at Vlakplaas, the same applies as far as he's a foot soldier is concerned, Mr Chairman. I therefore submit, ...
MR MALAN: Let me just ask you a question which I have in my mind. One cannot help but wonder whether that explosion which occurred on the evening of the 4th, was that not a false flag operation which you undertook there, you didn't cause that explosion to occur yourself?
... medical communities, social welfare community, White community. Whatever is set up must be well publicised in setting up period and once it is all operation. Once victims' immediate needs are being cared for the other devices can promote healing are job creation, commemorative events, erecting ...
... or questioning from me that if one Andy Taylor was in the security police in Durban at the time, then he would certainly have been involved in the operation. It isn't surprising that my father's murder would have been discussed at social events, amongst the community of people who had spent so ...
... ANC's armed struggle. The applicant never made any contact with the recruits. Neither did he know who they were but he would receive reports that operations had been carried out. He did not always receive such reports because initially reports were sent to his superior "Naledi Molefe". When ...
The purpose, explained by Hechter at the commencement of the operation, was to obtain information from him and thereafter to kill him, the Applicant and Selahle strangling him with a piece of wire.  He refused to co-operate.  Selahle and the Applicant were then ordered to kill him by ...
before the committee it was placed before the committee, I understood, as sort of contributory evidence that in fact there was a planning of such an operation. That's the first statement that I want to make, but if cognisance is taken of the cognisance is taken of the contents, it is clear from ...
particular expression of grief and morning in different cultures and the understanding of this will lead to a greater therapeutic or counselling co-operation and the acknowledge of rituals needed to help people transcend certain phases of their lives being blocked like for instance some of the ...
YVONNE: Yes, I have still have difficulties after the operation. I can't hear perfectly well.
Operation Vula for example was planned and was operating I think, I cannot remember the date, but clearly there was a lot of mistrust between what the police were actually doing and what the South African government's apartheid Security Forces were doing, and there were certainly counter-action ...
MR VISSER: Yes Chairperson, and it was all part and parcel of basically the same operation. Chairperson, the other two witnesses who will follow Mr Roos, have a very vague recollection of this. The facts will show that there was an attack with a bomb on the house of Qwabe and that there was not a ...
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