Vlakplaas

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.

... 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

MR DU PLESSIS: Mr Hammond, can you recall who was present at the planning meeting at Vlakplaas, the night before this action?

MR WILLIAMS: Now Mr Mbelo, you've been before this incident, you've been based at Vlakplaas for a few years and based on your experience did you subjective foresee the possibility that if a captured person did not co-operate to the satisfaction of the handlers or the people who were in charge of ...

MR SMITH: A certain Mr Joe Mamisela gave evidence implicating the Vlakplaas Unit in the disappearance of your husband? Did you become aware of that?

... to Venter he received instructions from Snyman to assist with the kidnapping of three leading activists. The reason for the involvement of the Vlakplaas members was that they were unknown in the area and would not be easily recognised by members of the public, should they be seen while ...

MR CORNELIUS: You were a member of Vlakplaas, as described in Exhibit A in this hearing and you were of the rank of Warrant Officer.

MR HAYES: People such as Vlakplaas members were regarded as heroes by me and the Security Branch and I assumed that from time to time they were involved in such similar operations and this indicated to me that it was indeed acceptable for the country at that stage.

MR DE JAGER: On a later occasion, I was present at a function at Vlakplaas where we and other colleagues of the Security Branch were thanked on behalf of the government by Min Adriaan Vlok, then the Minmster of Law and Order.

... and handlers. He was not and I think that is common cause, it is common cause in fact, part of any of the known assassination units, such as Vlakplaas, does not claim to have been a member of such a unit, nor to have ever previously committed or being instructed to commit any ...

... he acted in terms of a general instruction to combat terrorism received from Brigadier Viktor and Schoon. It is accepted that as commander of the Vlakplaas unit of the Security Branch he acted in co-operation with the SADF. This must have been approved by his superiors. He further testified ...