Vlakplaas

Warrant Officer Willie Nortje, former member of the police hit squad based at Vlakplaas, testified the following under oath to Gauteng Attorney-General Dr Jan de Oliviera.".

... 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 ...

BRIG CRONJE: I was the Commanding Officer at Vlakplaas.

... going to be inscribed on the envelope by Nieuwoudt and sent to the address that was used by the ANC in Manzini, Swaziland. All De Kock and other Vlakplaas Unit members had to do was simply to prepare the device for Nieuwoudt. To this end, Nieuwoudt left the manuscript with him. When De Kock ...

... of. You would recall Mr Vlok testified that everybody was satisfied with the successes against the terrorists and even thanked the operatives of Vlakplaas. There were further congratulations at a security council meeting where Mr Vlok reported back to President P W Botha. Furthermore, P W ...

MR SCHOON: The others, I knew that they were from Vlakplaas, but I did not know them.

... 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 ...

MR LAMEY: And that then being the broad general background against which you as a member of the Security Police and then also in particular a member of Vlakplaas, where you were involved in.

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?

"My instruction and support for J F Kok was to open all doors that were locked on the first floor, so that the operatives of Vlakplaas can search them."

... by the former SADF suggests that the CCB was set up in May 1986. Who authorised this? What was the nature of the relationship between the CCB and Vlakplaas? What was the total CCB budget? How was this budget authorised and accounted for? What expenditure was involved in closing down operations ...

(1)   all acts directly flowing from or associated with the provision of arms to the IFP during the period 1990 - 1991/1992 at or near Vlakplaas, Pretoria.

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

... the place to do it and if I can remember correctly Colonel van Rensburg told or suggested to Erasmus that he was in contact with Dirk Coetzee from Vlakplaas and that Dirk had the necessary infrastructure or had already indicated that he had the necessary infrastructure to solve or address these ...

MR HATTINGH: Were you still attached to Vlakplaas at that stage or were you working permanently at head office under Brig McIntyre?

Vlakplaas vehicles and you drove to Port Elizabeth. You and Lionel

... CCB was not the only body that was committing acts of violence, both against property and persons deemed to be the enemy of the State? There was Vlakplaas, there was the Security Police, there was the CCB, there were suggestions that the Special Forces were doing things, there were suggestions ...

MR VAN DER MERWE: The preceding time up to the operation you had a meeting at Vlakplaas.

... decided there that these persons who would be coming in, would be killed. It was also arranged by Col de Kock with Capt van Dyk to take a group of Vlakplaas members to the T-junction near the Nerston border post, this was not on the border, it was approximately three kilometres away from the ...

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.