Vlakplaas

ADV BOOYENS: Did it belong to the security branch or Vlakplaas?

MR CORNELIUS: At the time of this incident you were stationed at the Unit Vlakplaas, as fully described in Annexure C, which is already before this Committee, and you served under the command of Col de Kock, is that correct?

... 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 ...

MR LAMEY: Can you just tell the Committee, you were at that stage a member of Vlakplaas, is that correct?

MR G VISSER: At Oshoek there were members of the former C-Section from Vlakplaas, who rendezvoused with us there. The plan was for us to take Malaza through to Swaziland, we were to monitor him, he was to establish contact with Mr Msibi at a butcher and then he would accompany him on the ...

MR CORNELIUS: At the time this operation took place you were station at Vlakplaas, is that correct?

MR ROSSOUW: That would be 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 ...

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?

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.

Now there were two meetings if we can call it that - paragraph 8, Mr Chairman - and the second opportunity was when you left for Vlakplaas and where you and members of the Vlakplaas Unit left in separate vehicles to Johannesburg the evening of the explosion and you had said that Eugene de Kock took ...

- 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;

... 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...