Vlakplaas

... 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 CORNELIUS: You were a member of C-Section of the Police, called Vlakplaas, in what rank?

MR VAN HEERDEN: Yes, he was arrested by the askaris from Vlakplaas?

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

MR WAGENER: Then in the second paragraph on page 217 you state, or perhaps I should just take a step back. At the time of this incident you were also a member of the Vlakplaas unit.

MR BOOYENS: At that stage you were stationed at Vlakplaas, is that correct?

3.    No offence is disclosed in respect of the unlawful transportation of firearms from Namibia to Vlakplaas during 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 ...

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?

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

... preponderance of seconded officers of questionable repute, of questionable backgrounds. As Commissioner of your police you had a former founder of Vlakplaas General Viktor. As head of your Military Intelligence you had a person who is said to have a CCB background, your Chris Nel. As Chief of ...

... 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 ...

It also gave short courses on how to plant limpet mines. Our specific target was an ANC terrorist, whose MK name was Pansu Smith, who operated from a house near Mbabane. The attack team was made up of members of Vlakplaas. We moved into Swaziland to organise the attack.

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.

... McNally Investigation, this is the one that McNally and Krappies Engelbrecht carried out in late 1989, and they omitted to interview former head of Vlakplaas, Dirk Coetzee and this Krappies Engelbrecht is the same one who interfered with the witnesses in an attempt to cover up CCB activity. It ...