Vlakplaas

MR CORNELIUS: And at the time of this incident, you were deployed to Section C1, known as Vlakplaas, the particulars of which have been thoroughly submitted to this Committee in the so-called Annexure C, which was submitted by my colleague, Mr Hattingh, during previous proceedings?

... me again and told me that he had obtained permission from Middelburg Regional Office, for our mini-bus to be used and that Colonel De Kock from Vlakplaas would be in command of this operation. Seeing as I was at that stage the Commander of Witbank Security Branch, I took the decision to ...

MR WILLS: And was it used more or less along the same lines as Vlakplaas was used in the Transvaal of those days?

CHAIRPERSON: Hasn't the evidence disclosed that there were numerous people from Vlakplaas to ensure that nobody was walking passed the building?

MR CORNELIUS: Were you active in Vlakplaas?

Mr Nortje, is it correct that you applied also for other incidents in which you were involved as a member of Vlakplaas?

... still alive. There is no evidence that the said smuggler was alive at the time and on the contrary evidence being that they were all dead when the Vlakplaas Unit members came, amnesty cannot be considered in this respect. No offence of murder is committed by shooting an already dead ...

Thank you Chairperson. Good afternoon to you. According to your knowledge, are you aware of any involvement of Vlakplaas in the operation on the day - the 3rd of March 1986?

This incident happened during or about 1989.  Applicant and a number of his colleagues were called to a meeting by their commander at Vlakplaas, Colonel Eugene de Kock, and were ordered to proceed to Oshakati in Ovamboland, Namibia, where they had to collect weapons to be transported to ...

basis.  The Applicant is seeking amnesty solely for the unlawful possession of an AK47 assault rifle which was in the possession of the group of Vlakplaas members during the incident at Chesterville.  This firearm was used at some stage during the incident by the infiltration group as a ...

MR CORNELIUS: You were deployed to Vlakplaas, the Unit Vlakplaas as defined within the documents before this Committee and you served under the command of Col Eugene de Kock, is that correct?

Taylor, Botha, Lawrence Gerald Wasserman ("Wasserman"), van der Westhuizen, Coetzer and Basson.  Adrian David Baker ("Baker") who was the senior Vlakplaas officer present went into the storeroom from time to time to hear what information had been obtained regarding liberation movement ...

This must have been a very carefully guarded planning by the people from the Security Branch, would you agree then if none of you know anything about this Askari’s - this Vlakplaas involvement, it must have been a very carefully guarded plan.

MR DE KOCK: In 1993, when the rest of Vlakplaas was disbanded, he also received a package. He found himself in a suburb between Oudtshoorn and George, where his parents lived. At that time he was handled by Sgt Douw Willemse who was stationed at Oudtshoorn and between three and six months after ...

Where were you working, or where were you sent to? --- I was sent to Vlakplaas. That was my base. De Kock was a major then, before he was a colonel. I was arrested in 1988, January 8. I got back to South Africa round the 11th or 10th December 1987.

MR VISSER: Chairperson, the cover legend includes all the operational aspects which include for example matters such as what happened at Vlakplaas, the Askaris for example. All of that would fit in under the general detail of what policemen did during that time. I don’t make any particular point, ...

CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR GREYLING: Mr Mathebula, did you receive the instruction at Vlakplaas to go to Soutpan?

... of the page, the second last paragraph, approximately a week after the incident, the then Minister of Law and Order, Mr Vlok, addressed you at Vlakplaas and congratulated you for your action at Johannesburg. It appears that this could be a mistake, that it was not in fact a week ...

4. At Vlakplaas Msibi was further assaulted by De Kock who inter alia hit him with a belt. He was, according to de Kock, reluctant to co-operate, but eventually "neutralised" inter alia by the fact that he had been persuaded to give evidence against two informers who had been charged in the South ...

During this request I contacted Eugene de Kock from Vlakplaas and asked him whether he could assist me in supplying AK47s, rifles and other arms. And this happened, he assisted me, he agreed to assist me and Mr Botes then gave me an amount of between R7 500 and R10 000. That money was not ...