Vlakplaas

MR VISSER: About 9 years. There's a popular misconception, is there not, that the askaris that operated during the conflict of the past, were all stationed at Vlakplaas, near Pretoria. That perception is incorrect, is that right?

MR VAN DER MERWE: Then a last aspect that I'd like to deal with is that your recollection is that you tested this device at Vlakplaas, in the presence of Steve Bosch, is that correct?

somehow they were above it all and the Judiciary’s role in our country made them far more valuable to the fortification of apartheid than a thousand Vlakplaas farms could have done. It gave the system a veneer of respectability which the state could flaunt to the outside world and it added steel ...

MR LAMEY: During your service at Murder and Robbery and or thereafter, did you know of a Unit known as Vlakplaas?

The next day they cleaned the vehicle and returned to it. Hanton went to report to Taylor and Nortje, Brits and Swart travelled back to Vlakplaas and reported to de Kock. He says that he reported to Engelbrecht. De Kock says he gave Nortje the balance of the cash left over from the operation in ...

MR MWELASE: When I was released from prison I was taken to Pretoria where I joined Mr de Kock's unit at Vlakplaas. Normally we would leave Pretoria for Durban to assist in their operations, that is in identifying people whom we knew from exile. It was not only MK cadres who became askaris but ...

... with, among others and firstly, the general background, the political motivation, as well as a further affidavit which you filed with regard to Vlakplaas, should also be regarded as incorporated with your current ...

MR LAMEY: And when you later saw the container once again at Vlakplaas, how did it look?

MR RORICH: Yes, these were people from Vlakplaas.

But at that stage I was aware of the fact that he was the Commander of Vlakplaas and I was aware that this was the unit which resorted under Brig Schoon and everything with regard to terrorist insurgency was channeled from Head office to Brig Schoon and therefore I had no problem with the ...

... J F KOK: It is as I say in my statement, Col de Kock via du Toit, requested a parcel that had to be prepared. I then liaised with Steve Bosch from Vlakplaas. The parcel was a Parker pen that had to be sent to Swaziland and they said that it was going to the ANC's military wing in Swaziland. ...

MR SNYDERS: He and I had been together at Police Headquarters in Pretoria before we went to Vlakplaas, and he must have felt comfortable in asking me to go with him to Col Oosthuizen's office.

I tell you now that your medium was part and parcel of covering the Harms Commission and everything else that went around those sort of Commissions, Vlakplaas operations and all that. And so to the extent that there was that exercise, there was definitely a viewpoint that suggested that there were ...

MR ERASMUS: I cannot recall, I think he was a member of Vlakplaas.

Mr du Toit, were you approached by, or had any dealings with Mr Bosch in this incident, in terms of either him being possibly with Mr de Kock when you were instructed or handing the manufactured device back to Mr de Kock or a member of Vlakplaas?

Security Forces in the East Rand, particularly those based at Vlakplaas and Enoni were notorious in the townships. In 1993 the ANC successfully applied to the Supreme court to prevent the further torture of approximately 140, regulation detainees.

The applicant testified that MK Bab was brought to Vlakplaas after he had been kidnapped in Mozambique. The applicant did not partake in the kidnapping and only met MK Bab after he had been brought to the Western Transvaal where the applicant had been on duty at the time. The detainee was ...

... three (3) 9 mm Walter submachine guns with silencers and subsonic ammunition. De Kock states that these were some of the weapons which he found at Vlakplaas when he came there in 1985. According to Labuschagne the attack had to take place at night when Jabu was expected to be at home. The ...

... during our trial, which is today Exhibit A in the amnesty hearing. One of the most well known attacks was the bombing of Cosatu House in 1987 by Vlakplaas operatives and both Eugene de Kock and others have applied for amnesty in this ...

MR NEL: At the time of this incident were you a member of Vlakplaas, obviously in the South African Police?