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?

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?

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 VAN DER MERWE: However, in this matter you were a member of Vlakplaas and you received your orders and instructions from Mr de Kock to participate in this operation.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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?

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

... 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 ...

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

... 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 ...

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 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.

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

MR RAUTENBACH: What your evidence is actually saying, Mr Kok, if we accept your version, that that material in which it was packaged, as well as the computer print-out, whether it was laser printing, it had to be done at Vlakplaas.

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?