Vlakplaas

members of Vlakplaas, Snor Vermeulen and Lionel Snyman were already

... same case. I came across a Capt Holmes who appeared to be looking at the case from a slightly different angle, and I was able to obtain copies of Vlakplaas records which would help us identify the dates in which the unit had been operating in Durban. I went to see them and tried to ascertain ...

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

... I wish to make the following remarks - Col de Kock is mistaken in his opinion, in his recollection that I attended any planning session at ...

MR WAGENER: Now when did you leave the Northern Transvaal Security Branch for Vlakplaas?

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

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 ...

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 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?

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.

... that it would not have taken, we would not have allowed 10 days to lapse. I do believe that Mr Nortje wishes to refer to the fact that members of Vlakplaas had probably - were probably already in the area before the instruction was given. I say this following on the evidence of Col de Kock in ...

... 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 ...

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.

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, ...

the Applicant in the garden of his private home.  This arms cache was created from weapons the Applicant had obtained while he was a member of the Vlakplaas Unit.  The reason why these weapons were given to the Applicant has not been disclosed by him.  What is of importance however is that ...