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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 941 to 960 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 43 •44 •45 •46 •47 •48 •49 •50 •51 Next Page•Last PageCHAIRPERSON: We've heard that witchcraft still is in operation and I appreciate what you've just said, if you are granted amnesty, how you will deal with the issues. At that time there was a battle going on, a political battle and certain things occurred. In some quarters they say it was wrong ... ... has been confiscated by white farmers. I was told again that among the white farmers, some of them were police or SADF reservists, that is why the operation Great Storm was launched by Siabelo ... CHAIRPERSON: Yes, I think it is quite clear that they were operating as MK members, on an operation. could be wrong. What did you discuss and then what actually happened? What did you discuss and how did you go about putting those discussions into ... MR DU TOIT: The first inference that I drew was that this would be used for an offensive action and secondly, that this would be used in a cross-border operation because of the great deal of trouble that went into the packing of these items. 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 ... MR LEWIN: From what you tell us it must have been a very well planned operation if it was in fact deliberate and it was an ambush. When I arrived there, they said that my eyes were completely damaged, but they will try to cure it. I was taken to theatre after some days - the Doctors were checking the damage and they did an operation on my right eye. at the time. It would be a fair summary of the evidence to describe the situation as critical and almost an open war situation. Apla had launched operation Great Storm which involved a new pattern where according to the PAC representations to the TRC civilians within the white community were ... ADV MPSHE: And you have to be satisfied that this person is actually a member of the UDF before you can instruct the other guys to carry out the operation not so? MR BELLING (SNR): He’s gone through a lot of pain and suffering. He was in hospital for a long, long time and he’s been through numerous operations, three different operations. His heart had stopped and they battled to revive him due to the fact that all the operations he was having. He had up ... ... being injured and this police came to us and asked us why are they assaulting you, why are they beaing you up. We said we don't know. I had an operation. They kicked us ... 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 ... ... picked up by a person whom the Applicant was unable to remember, but soon thereafter, Captain Pretorius informed him that he had terminated the ... They stated that if they had found that the area was used at night, they would have abandoned the operation. 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. ... DR VAN RENSBURG: Not at all Mr Chairman, I merely related what I had heard from Dr Immelman and the extract I had read in the newspaper. There was never any other talk of any operation at the institute against Mr Mandela, neither was there any positive action that I know of. ... 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 ... |