Vlakplaas

members of Vlakplaas, Snor Vermeulen and Lionel Snyman were already

MR BARNARD: Yes, I don't know if one could place Vlakplaas in the Counter-insurgency Unit but I received remuneration from them.

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 CORNELIUS: Were you active in Vlakplaas?

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

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

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.

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 ...

... 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 ...

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, ...

... Security Branch was active in the Natal war. Certain of the Indunas were actively encouraged to overcome the UDF in the area. From about 1990 Vlakplaas got involved via supplying arms and ammunition. Some of our agents also resigned and joined the IFP fulltime in one or other ...

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.

referred to askaris. I know for a fact that the applicant is the only one, him and Andy Taylor that worked on the askari farm similar to the one at Vlakplaas, here at Natal at Stanger. I was at this farm once, I was there once because I had certain information that I telephonically conveyed to ...

- He was not based in Durban, but in Vlakplaas near Pretoria. It is inconceivable that he would have, on his own, come all the way to Durban to launch an operation of this magnitude;