Vlakplaas

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

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

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 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 HATTINGH: Do you confirm once again the supplementary affidavit which you have made about Vlakplaas as such?

... one has in mind the reporting on the inhuman conditions in South Africa's prisons, the info scandal, the unmasking of the CCB and the expose on the Vlakplaas dirty tricks network and, of course, as I have already stated, these editors on these newspapers often waxed eloquent in stinging ...

according to my recollection it should be Vlakplaas. That at that stage he was at Vlakplaas and not Middelburg.

MR BARNARD: Yes, Sir, there were askaris used. There was close co-operation between DCC and Mr Eugene de Kock them at Vlakplaas. Myself and Mr Eugene de Kock were personal friends, we interacted on a social basis and at a certain stage when Vlakplaas was down-scaling and they worked on the ...

... may I perhaps just come in here. May I just put the evidence that was led in context, I think the evidence of Mr de Kock, specifically related to Vlakplaas and the situation that pertained at Vlakplaas, and the Northern Transvaal Security Branch was a totally different place and a totally ...

... there was not supposed to be any interrogation, even the interrogation which, in the end, he concedes happened, it was meant to mislead the Vlakplaas people as to the real intention of the abduction which was elimination, that is ...

MR PRINSLOO: And was he accompanied by certain members, as it is known today, from Vlakplaas?

MR LAMEY: Mr Nortjè, at the stage when you were involved in this incident, you were a sergeant and you were stationed at Unit C1, Vlakplaas, under the command of Colonel De Kock?

Later that year, Vlakplaas operatives testified, Vlok attended a function at Vlakplaas where he congratulated the members for executing the operation successfully.

... included PKM as well as RPD machine guns together with ammunition.  These were some of the last machine guns that were left in the stores at Vlakplaas.  Applicant also supplied Victor Ndlovu with a quantity of ammunition of different calibers, including 9mm, .22 and 7.65mm.  These were ...

MR HATTINGH: In June 1985 you were already connected to C1, which was stationed at Vlakplaas.

... been taking place here, it is highly unlikely that he would have been on that list. Firstly because he was an askari, so called or an informer at Vlakplaas, don't know for how long. Secondly then he disappeared for a while and then he was arrested ...

MR LAMEY: Furthermore, on page 24 and 26 there is a brief background pertaining to you, including the details of how you joined the South African Police, how you were transferred to the Vlakplaas unit and how you were applied within that context, is that correct?

The Applicant states that he took part in those operations because he saw it as his duty to defend the previous Nationalist Party regime. As a Vlakplaas Unit member he had to bring the ANC infiltration of cadres into the country and its armed activities to an end.

... information with - in that regard but Leon Meyer’s people were also on TV and they said that they were white people and that they were boers from Vlakplaas. That was what was mentioned because she said that on TV and they said that it was them because Vivian was with them and Vivian was shot ...

MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, I met Mr Mamasela when I started working at Vlakplaas, it was the 1st of July 1983. Somewhere during that time I met him for the first time.