Vlakplaas

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 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.

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.

... 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?

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

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?

... 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 ...

He said even Eugene de Kock was a frequent guest at Ladybrand, did you ever see Mr de Kock visiting you people there, Mr de Kock, the famous one from Vlakplaas?

MR SIMELANE: The harassment of our people, the arresting of our people, torturing them. He was part this - what is it, the Vlakplaas. There was communication between them. You go to any person who lived during the era of Selepe here in Mamelodi, they will give you the history of Selepe. Which ...

I then delegated the instruction to Brigadier Willem Schoon,who at that stage commanded the Vlakplaas Unit and once againemphasised the question of not putting lives at risk. The instructionwas duly carried out at a later date and the building was so badlydamaged it was rendered no usable.

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.