Vlakplaas

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 ...

MR CORNELIUS: Is it correct that at the time of this Chand incident you were stationed at Vlakplaas and you served under Section C of Eugene de Kock and you were also a Warrant Officer?

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?

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 ...

... were carried out by DST's Operation Katzen in the Eastern Cape; and operations of the SADF's Special Forces, the CCB and the SAP's C10 Unit or Vlakplaas and C4, Trewitts, which played a co-ordinating role. Moving to the sub-heading, "The UDF as an internal revolutionary threat". The UDF ...

we discussed this with Colonel Hattingh and he agreed that this was a good idea and according to my best recollection, Mr Hammond and I drove out to Vlakplaas where we presented our problem to Mr de Kock. His immediate reaction was that he didn't have a problem with assisting us but that he ...

MR VAN DYK: I'm not sure if it was Middelburg or Vlakplaas. I think it was in 1980. I can't dispute that it might have been 1980, because it was a long time ago.

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

MNR VAN DYK: Ja, van Vlakplaas het ons dokumente gehad wat nou nie - hy was wettig maar hy was op 'n ander naam, 'n vervalste naam".

MR RORICH: Yes, these were people from Vlakplaas.

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 RAS: Yes, it was part of Vlakplaas that we executed operations which were basically beyond the law.

MR NEL: You were, at the time of this operation, under the command of Mr de Kock at Vlakplaas, is that correct?

MR ROSSOUW: Do you confirm the rest of the contents in that statement on 179 and more specifically the function at Vlakplaas where Mr Vlok attended and which you also attended?

MR WASSERMAN: We pulled off before the range and I, and we spoke together and he informed me that the Vlakplaas contingent had picked up Mr Bhila.

mentioned that Nortje who was a member of Vlakplaas and in

MR KNIGHT: Thank you Mr Chairman. Mr Dandala, what led you to believe that had you not participated, that you might have been killed by the Vlakplaas contingent?

ADV BOOYENS: Mr Chairman, could my learned friend just clarify one thing. He said then they went to sleep. Who is the they? Is that everybody involved in the questioning or just the askaris or the men from Vlakplaas, if my learned friend wouldn't mind clearing that up, it is not exactly clear.