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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation The Applicants thereafter immediately brought everything in motion to carry out the operation on the following day. De Kock, having been appointed operational commander, instructed W Coetzee and Pretorius to get hold of informer SWT 180 and to request him to make contact with the September ... ... they stopped in the road as it passed and they put me in this car. I was then taken to Lenmac Clinic and there Dr Valley performed and emergency operation on me. Dr Valley then said to his colleagues that he though that my brain had been damaged one way or another because I was not calmed ... "The operation to go and defend the people in Natal was not an MK operation, it was an operation of the Self Defence Units. Even though I am a member of Umkhonto weSizwe it was not an MK operation because MK suspended armed operations long ago, on the 6th of August 1990." used. His evidence in this regard also cannot be rejected on the basis of it being so improbable as to it being untruthful. He was not involved in Operation Sacrifice and it may well be that that stage of the operation was conducted on the so-called "need-to-know" basis. The criticism of his ... ... to the Applicant in respect of all offences or delicts arising from his participation in the ANC project commenced during or about 1987 termed Operation Vula including the storing of arms and harbouring MK cadres in different parts of South ... ... being the tradition as such and you know, from the TRC staff members, I think they can confirm it as well, that they have not been receiving co-operation on the part of Mrs Manoto, since the investigation of this matter or since, at the time the applications were lodged, in the sense that ... MR TAIT: As I've stated, Mr de Kock was in charge of the operation, so it would have been automatic that he would be the one to begin the interrogation of the man. I assumed that he would be interrogated by Mr de Kock. Another operation which falls into the category described above (i.e. where I was involved with a unit that carried out reconnaissance as well as the operation) was the explosion at Anthea's Club at Pietersburg Holiday Inn. This was carried out by Rocky Williams under my ... ... the most significant of which is the fact that the majority of the persons that he says was involved in the attack were unaware that it was an APLA operation. It is most improbable that if the attack was an APLA operation that persons who were not members of APLA would be taken on the mission. ... those years of conflict, so that we never ever forget what life was like for people like you, who struggled against an unjust system. And of the co-operation that you've told us that existed between the police and political parties. In this case you have described very close co-operation between ... ... how important this offensive towards South Africa was for SAYRCO, to such an extent that they sent their President to South Africa on a clandestine operation and then he was captured as a ... The decision to plant the bomb next to the NBS building which housed the Witbank police station was taken by Xolile Sam who was a commander of the operation and there is no evidence to controvert that. The applicants participated in the operations under the orders of their commander. Furthermore ... ... the ANC leaders foresee that attacks by the ANC might cause the death of civilians and that they accept this as one of the consequences of ANC operations. They also accept that ANC operators in carrying out tasks set by them might at times attack civilian targets or that they might set ... ... firearm was lawfully obtained from the official Security Police store for the specific use of the Vlakplaas contingent during the infiltration operation in the Durban area. The official written request for the issuing o the firearm dated 3 June 1986 forms part of the record before us as ... ... as this painful headache. Then in March 1990 I got a stroke. I was taken to the hospital. I stayed there for four months. I underwent a major operation on my head. I know that all the perpetrators are today innocent. I meet them along the way. I see them almost every time. Then when I ... ... not certain about the time and if at that stage of the evening we'd entered into radio contact the possibility may have existed that this entire operation could have fallen through as a result of that, that the persons coming from Botswana may have heard the discussion. That is the only ... The operation proceeded with Mbane and Dube making contact with and infiltrating Khubeka's activities. Radebe also made contact at certain stages. Apparently, useful information was obtained. There are different and conflicting versions of precisely what progress was made with the ... Yes, definitely we'll be in contact with them getting their side of the story or we might also subpoena them depending on their co-operation and in the process we'll mention to them your desire. --- Thank you. Thank you, Sir. "I confirm that on the day of the operation, I travelled from Welkom to Wesselsbron, with Sohane, the driver, Sibande and Sebinzile on the instruction of Abel Khotle. He instructed us to meet Bhani in Wesselsbron and he will brief us about the operation to take place." MS MTANGA: Coming to the incident of the 14th September 1992, can you tell the Committee when and how did you plan that operation? When did you think of carrying it out and how did you plan how you were going to go about it? |
