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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 MTHEMBU: Do you know of an APLA operation code named Great Storm?
ADV SIGODI: The way you understood the whole operation, in your opinion I just want to know what would you have done as that group if you had found partly ANC and partly IFP motor vehicle?
MR SANDI: I am going to hand over to the Chairperson, Mr Mbewana, thank you very much for your testimony and your co-operation.
CHAIRPERSON: Off the record Judge Motata seems to have been there at the time of this operation.
CHAIRPERSON: And Thami was along on that operation, all the time?
... injuries. They immediately left the scene and drove to the house of the trade unionist some kilometres away. There they repeated the same operation. He heard somebody screaming and one of his colleagues fired a few shots in the direction of the house before they ran away and drove ...
... act on his own initiative.  Accordingly, he decided to provide the necessary assistance and thus ordered the other Applicants to carry out the ...
In consequence of these activities of the SDU, the applicant was at some time during the operation of the SDU in unlawful possession of a firearm and an undetermined amount of ammunition.
commanders they should have went further and questioned: "Why do you instruct us to do certain things, tell us the policy which supports the type of operation which you want us to engage in." Mr Chairman, it has been made very clear here that they were not allowed to ask such ...
MR MKWANAZI: There are other things as well. He said we should not fight back because the people of the hostel were angry, they wanted to fight the police. He told us to come down and give our co-operation.
So he underwent an operation. I went back to college at that time. What I didn't say; every time Eric was detained, it was the same Kombi of the security branch that fetched him. So it was the same people all the time.
One last question. Could you describe to us also how the riot squad operated. Where - where was the main operation base and where was it commandeered, can you just give us a picture of how that was structured?
... Madibo. They were ordered to lie on the floor. Lesibo ran out of the office, shots were then exchanged and Madibo was shot in the leg. The operation was ...
... for amnesty, not just now to ridicule this process, but to do their share. I have no right to close this meeting, but thank you. You get our co-operation. God willing I may join you later some time tomorrow in Tzaneen. God help you. Let us ...
MR LAX: I am not going to waste time, the way you have written it here, is that everybody in the community knew that Msani had sold the brother out, the comrades then planned to kill him. It was after everybody knew, that they planned this operation and that doesn't tie in with your evidence.
... what is implicit in the facts before the Committee is that the conspiracy to abduct and eventually kill the deceased, was in place before the operation set out, or set forth into Swaziland. ...
... women and aged women and old men and everybody knew these people, knew their activities. I came back to the office. I was in charge of the entire operation and I suggested that he too, or should I say Beki, should be fetched, himself being the first one. And the intention with reference to ...
CHAIRPERSON: Yes, thank you, Mr Swanepoel, I want to say something about you first. I want to thank you for your co-operation throughout your attendance here and the fairness you've displayed, it's impressed us. I thank you.
MR MZOBOSHE: I had to undergo an operation so that they can drain the blood which was accumulating in my body.
MS MDYOGOLO: After he had been taken to the Doctor, he was taken in for an operation. Thereafter he was taken for the post-mortem to be conducted and we received notices informing us that an inquest was going to be held and that we should be at court at a certain date.
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