Vlakplaas

MR LAMEY: Mr Mogoai, is it correct that you were a member -you became a member of the Security Branch specifically stationed at Vlakplaas since approximately 1980?

MR LAMEY: At this stage you were a member of Vlakplaas, under the command of Mr de Kock.

MR MBELO: No, I mean I was not aware that I was going to join Vlakplaas. I thought that I was going to join headquarters, Security Branch.

MR CORNELIUS: At the time of this incident you were attached to the section which was commonly known as Vlakplaas, C Section under the command of Colonel Eugene de Kock, one of the applicants in this matter, 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 ...

MR HUGO: And just for the sake of completion, you also request that the supplementary submission regarding your background and political convictions and motivations, as well as your supplementary affidavit regarding Vlakplaas, be regarded as incorporated with your current application.

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

EXAMINATION BY MR LAMEY: Mr Nortje, you also applied for amnesty for various incidents in which you were involved as a member of Vlakplaas. Some of them have already been heard by the Committee, is that correct?

succession in possession of all the other persons there. I know that Mr Labuschagne was there. Mr Greyling was also there. The other persons from Vlakplaas and other persons I cannot recall precisely all the persons who were there and I cannot recall their precise positions ...

MR VAN DYK: Security Head Office Pretoria and Vlakplaas.

... affidavit regarding your background, your political motivations and considerations and a further affidavit which was filed by you regarding Vlakplaas, its establishment and the purposes, or the objectives that Vlakplaas sought to achieve during the struggle of the ...

MR BOTHA: At that time you were in the service of the police and you were stationed at Vlakplaas.

MR DE KOCK: Yes, it was Geoffrey Bosigo, he was a former ANC member and he had spent quite some time at Vlakplaas. By that stage he was already a member of the force. I found him at Vlakplaas in 1983 when I returned from South West. Then there was Jimmy Mbane, who was also a former ANC member ...

MR VAN SCHALKWYK: You have heard the evidence in the Bhila case, with regards to the communication between a unit of Vlakplaas which would do some service here and also the Port Natal division. I just want to ask you a few questions about that.

MR JANSEN: Just to clarify the major points, you were a member of Unit C1, the so-called Vlakplaas, from 1984 to 1992.

... the intensifying of the particular threat, was promoted on a continual basis with Head Office. Col de Kock in his capacity as Commander of Vlakplaas and the application of askaris was a source of information which was of particular interest to my division. It is then obvious that from ...

... and ideas of MK, that somebody had to be brought in who had fresher knowledge of these issues and it was decided to bring in Moni and Monyane from Vlakplaas. And this happened about a month or so after the initial penetration, so the evidence was, of this group by Lengene. Moni also in fact ...

MR NAUDE: During that specific day, that was in the late afternoon, I attended a briefing session at Vlakplaas, that was attended by Trevits members of the Defence Force, and at this briefing a target was identified.

MR LAMEY: However he had been a former member of Vlakplaas.

During approximately May 1987, while a Vlakplaas unit was in Durban, penetration was done by members of Vlakplaas, i.e. Simon Radebe and two askaris, Jimmy Mbane and Dube.