Vlakplaas

... 5. We will not immediately refer to it, the only reason why I mention it now is by virtue of certain questions that have been asked regarding ...

10.   The transportation of firearms from Namibia to Vlakplaas during or about 1989.

MR JANSE VAN RENSBURG: If I can remember correctly Mr Erasmus asked how are you going to do it and I proposed that I could contact Mr Coetzee at Vlakplaas near Pretoria because I knew him and we were also involved in the same operation in Swaziland. Those were during the earlier years. And I ...

... in his office that there had been an attack on an 'ANC farm'.  Mr Kentane reported that one person had been killed.  Mr Kentane arrived at Vlakplaas 3 - 4 days after this ...

MR MALAN: I beg your pardon, before you continue with that. Do I understand you correctly when you say that at that stage Cronje was permanently on the East Rand and that the operation in other words was for all executionary purposes, something from Vlakplaas?

MR CORNELIUS: And you executed the instructions of Col Eugene de Kock who was the Commander of Vlakplaas and that you operated on a need to know basis, is that correct?

... bringing down his masters, we are told that later that same day, the Minister of Police, Adriaan Vlok, shared a braai with De Kock and his men at Vlakplaas to celebrate their ...

CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR VISSER: But a few with your permission, Mr Chairman. Mr Nkala, if I understand the position correctly, you people at Vlakplaas would be called out to areas all over the country where there were problems, is that basically correct?

MR BOOYENS: You agree with it. Very well. Now, Colonel De Kock, you say, at page 259, gave you an overview at Vlakplaas of the reasons for the operation, is that correct?

EXAMINATION BY MR LAMEY: Mr Bosch, you have also applied for amnesty before the Amnesty Committee for various incidents in which you were involved as a member of the Security Police and Vlakplaas, is that correct?

MR CORNELIUS: Paragraph Roman (iv), you were connected to Section C10 or C1 of the South African Police stationed at Vlakplaas. You confirm that you received an order from Eugene de Kock to be available for an operation in Johannesburg. Is that so?

MR CORNELIUS: You were deployed to Section C1, known as Vlakplaas. The operations of the unit have been set out in documentation which has already been submitted to this Committee.

MR MOERANE: Do you remember that the people from Vlakplaas were at a place called Island Rock, where they were having a four day team-building workshop.

MR BOOYENS: Now is it correct that during 1988 you were stationed at Vlakplaas?

BRIG CRONJE: Johannes Mnisi was a former askari at Vlakplaas and he decided to rejoin the ANC. He then went into exile in Botswana and from there he launched and planned a variety of terrorist activities, he was one of the main planners of, for instance, the Church Street Bomb. According to ...

MR MAMASELA: It was an office at Vlakplaas that was used for briefing special ops members. If somebody goes for a special operation, you go into that office and you get briefed.

Vlakplaas, were at work in Port Elizabeth?

MR LAMEY: Very well. And did you then depart from Vlakplaas?

MR CORNELIUS: Did you then go and pick up members of Vlakplaas or other police members?

MR COETZEE: According to my recollection I was just before I left because I handed Vlakplaas over to my successor on the 31st of December 1981 and I knew that I was somewhere in the Eastern Transvaal during that time.