Vlakplaas

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.

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

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.

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. ...

PRETORIA REPORT-BACK INSPECTION IN LOCO AT VLAKPLAAS

And again, if one has to argue from his point of view, he comes forward and he says "I was the overall Commander of Vlakplaas." Now from what we know about what happened at Vlakplaas, the overall Commander of Vlakplaas was involved in illegal conduct day in and day out and yes, there are things ...

In the course of Applicant's activities while he was stationed at Vlakplaas during the period 1986 - 1991, he was involved in transporting arms and explosives from Ovamboland in Namibia to Vlakplaas.  This happened on two occasions when all of the items were placed in the weapons store at ...

The arrangement was that the operatives would be handed over to members of the Vlakplaas Unit of the security police in order to attempt to recruit them as informers.  To the best of Applicant's recollection the operatives were taken to a safehouse near Komatipoort by members of Vlakplaas ...

... I was back with General Erasmus who I had worked with previously in Johannesburg. Some of the people that worked at Stratcom were transferred to Vlakplaas. Others like Brigadier MacIntyre were transferred to Security Branch head office, and some of them went with me to Unit D. For example ...

... today to put his side of what had happened. We are also finding out now, of the role that the Third Force, what is referred to as Third Force, the Vlakplaas units - Mr Mamasela's name has been mentioned, and the role they played in many instances in killing young people. Would you like to ...

... and that he was blown up by de Kock but yesterday also the point was made that he was at Mrs Madikizela-Mandela’s house because he had escaped from Vlakplaas and was actually giving information to the ANC concerning Vlakplaas activities. Do you gentlemen know about this - any of you, either at ...

... and the footsoldiers, it is that if he had a perspective due to previous operational experience such as Koevoet and thereafter was transferred to Vlakplaas he would have held the view that his operational experience and application with a unit such as Vlakplaas would be used exactly for the ...

And that he brought his experience in Koevoet to bare on his operations - the Vlakplaas Section C-operations in South Africa. And that many of the Vlakplaas operatives had - and also CCB - Civil Corporation Bureau operatives - had received their blooding - let us put it that way, in Koevoet and I ...

The Applicant further testified that in 1993 all askaris who were attached to Vlakplaas were addressed by Eugene de Kock who told them that the Vlakplaas Security Police Unit was being disbanded. They were promised a"golden handshakes" which he subsequently received.

When it became clear that Mosiane and his compatriots had decided to co-operate with the police, they were transferred to Vlakplaas where they worked with Eugene de Kock. There they were subsequently involved with the notorious Vlakplaas Security Police Unit in a number of actions to counter the ...

... present, when you gave the political motive and there extensive evidence was covered about how Stratcom worked, how the Security Police worked, how Vlakplaas was the operational base for all these attacks. Hence you find in this incident that my reading of the documentation before me is that ...

... about some confusion in regard to his amnesty application. He now says Chairperson in his affidavit that he was the Commander of Unit C at Vlakplaas, at Security Head Office, paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 tells you that he was also therefore in control of Vlakplaas and he refers in ...

... whom he erroneously still regarded as a member of MK.  Mfalapitsa's defection was a closely guarded secret.  He was in fact stationed at Vlakplaas, a secret security police base, at the time.  Mfalapitsa reported his discussion with Musi to Coetzee, his superior at Vlakplaas.  ...