Vlakplaas

... 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 LAMEY: Your recollection was that you were particularly searching for a terrorist with the assistance of Vlakplaas members, and that this terrorist was known as Orderele Maponya, is that correct?

Eugene Alexander de Kock ("De Kock") testified that the SB at Germiston had requested Vlakplaas to assist them and the Witbank SB with the detection of suspected MK members.  De Kock called in the Task Force.  A briefing session was held at the SB offices in Germiston.  The information at ...

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

... 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 ...

GEN COETZEE: Yes I said so, I knew of cases where I acted where I had persons charged where for example I had persons from Vlakplaas charged when they committed crimes of which I was aware. There were other persons who killed persons during interrogation whom I had charged in the courts of this ...

(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.

... 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 ...

... 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 LAMEY: Is it true that there were other members from other branches who actually had some interest in this case and who wanted to interrogate this person who was from a higher rank than the people from Vlakplaas?

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?

BRIG CRONJE: I was the Commanding Officer at Vlakplaas.

... 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 ...

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.".