Vlakplaas

... ANC representative Dulcie September is killed in Paris in March, allegedly by the CCB. Four unarmed ANC members are shot dead in June by a Vlakplaas hit squad and members of the Piet Retief security branch. Massive strike in protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Act in June. ...

are injured when police open fire on Daveyton residents holding an illegal meeting on 14 January. Lawyer Bheki Mlangeni is killed in February by a Vlakplaas parcel bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee. The UDF National General Council decides in March to disband the organisation later that year. ...

... lasts until March 1986. Maki Skosana is necklaced on 25 July at the funeral of several people killed by police. Eugene de Kock assumes command of Vlakplaas in July. Victoria Mxenge, a Durban attorney, is assassinated in Umlazi on 1 August. This triggers a rapid escalation of conflict between ...

... sending a clear signal that these were simply public relations initiatives and that they were not intended to change the status quo. The fact that Vlakplaas personnel continued with unlawful activities at the very time that the Harms Commission was sitting is clear testimony to this. Given this ...

... was authorised by Brigadier Nick Janse van Rensburg who had succeeded Schoon as head of C section. De Kock executed the operation with a team of Vlakplaas operatives. Five of the operatives involved applied for amnesty; namely, Colonel Eugene De Kock [AM0066/96], W A ‘Willie’ Nortjé ...

(Willem Schoon), officers commanding divisional Security Branch offices (Cronjé – Northern Transvaal) as well as all virtually every commander of Vlakplaas had spent time in Rhodesia and/or then South West Africa. 530 Such networks frequently drew police and military together and involved ...

... Assassinations, ambushes and abductions Not even South Africa’s borders stopped them … Nobody had been safe anywhere in the world. (Former Vlakplaas Commander Eugene de Kock’s trial evidence in mitigation, 8 October 1996.) 207 The cases examined below do not reflect all the incidents ...