Vlakplaas

Amnesty is accordingly hereby GRANTED to the Applicant in respect of all offences directly resulting from the destruction of documents at Vlakplaas during the term of office of the Harms Commission of Inquiry.

MR HATTINGH: And this is set out in the supplementary affidavit with regard to Vlakplaas and there you deal comprehensively with that discretion?

MR BOOYENS: On page 248, is it correct to say that right from the outset, you were at Vlakplaas?

MR MOGOAI: He was Sectional Commander in Vlakplaas. We left Vlakplaas and we were deployed in Northern Province, where we were supposed to work there and trace members of MK. On a particular day we were called, Capt Vermeulen told us - it was myself, W/O Letsatsi and Mfalapitsa, that we should go ...

MR VAN DER MERWE: During this incident you were a member of Vlakplaas and you fell under the commander of the Commander, Mr Eugene de Kock.

MR ROSSOUW: Mr Willemse, when this incident took place, were you stationed at Vlakplaas?

a farm known as Vlakplaas, a so-called anti-terrorist unit?

CHAIRPERSON: What was the work that Vlakplaas was doing at the time?

Mr Ras, in July 1989, you were a Warrant Officer stationed at the C1 Unit in Vlakplaas, is that correct?

... unpleasant.  He did say that he was told later, after Mlangeni's death, that the package they had sent had exploded.  Although he then realised Vlakplaas was responsible for the death he did not say ...

CHAIRPERSON: Well we started with Mr de Kock referring to his volume on Vlakplaas, which is what, 150 pages.

MR LAX: C10, just for your information, was Vlakplaas.

MR VISSER: And C Section had, amongst others, incorporated in it C1 and that was Vlakplaas?

MR LAMEY: You see the reason why I ask you, there must have been a good reason why Vlakplaas was involved, because if the people were not armed, or if you never thought that the people would be armed, you could have done it yourself, is that not so?

      3.    The Committee finds that no offence for which amnesty can be granted has been disclosed in respect of the acts involving the transportation of arms from Namibia to Vlakplaas or from Vlakplaas to the Security Branch in Natal.

MR VAN DYK: Security Head Office Pretoria and Vlakplaas.

MR RAUTENBACH: At that stage Mr Visser, did you have knowledge of the existence of Vlakplaas, is that correct?

MR BOSCH: The camera was purchased by the Police, we used it at Vlakplaas. It wasn't specifically purchased for this particular operation, we had it beforehand.

MR HATTINGH: Now you were a policeman attached to Unit C1 at Vlakplaas, is that correct?

... at the Oshoek border post with Maj-Gen Stadler and Brig Schoon, as well as Senior Superintendent Visser and W/O Greyling, as well as members of the Vlakplaas unit and Col Eugene de Kock. During this time, Malaza was taken over the border to Swaziland, so that his handler could be ...