Vlakplaas

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?

... into an empty office and there were three black policemen standing there. They were told to me - or it was said to me that they were askaris from Vlakplaas. They never spoke to me, they never greeted me, they showed no emotion, although I tried to - I greeted them, I tried to speak to them. ...

... believed to be either ANC members or collaborators.  Permission for this operation had been received from both Brig Schoon who was then head of Vlakplaas and Brig Loots within whose jurisdiction the targeted house ...

MR MOERANE: From time to time from the 80's did you make use of the people from Vlakplaas, de Kock's people, for operations?

Were you aware of a letter coming from headquarters concerning Vlakplaas Division C1 that was a newly established structure?

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".

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 ...

PRETORIA REPORT-BACK INSPECTION IN LOCO AT VLAKPLAAS

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... far - the matter's been postponed now until December - what has emerged so far in the killing of Dr Luthuli is that it is very possibly linked to a Vlakplaas operative working in collusion with the Empangeni security police and the KwaZulu Police but the matter is, of course, still under - the ...

... facts can be set out briefly. At all material times, Applicant was a member of Unit C1 of the then South African Security Police stationed at Vlakplaas under the command of Colonel Eugene De Kock. In the course of his official duties, Applicant was ordered to participate in an operation ...

... in the incident.  All were members of the South African Police ("SAP") and were either part of the Security Branch's ("SB") C1 unit based at Vlakplaas, C2 unit based at headquarters or members of the SB stationed at Middelburg, Piet Retief, Nelspruit or Headquarters in Pretoria ...

MR CORNELIUS: You served in the Section called C1, of Vlakplaas, which workings of Vlakplaas are fully amplified in the previous documents before this Committee.

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 ...

... also at the time because as I understand it, Nofumela, and if I can just inform everybody, you’re referring to Almond Nofumela who was part of the Vlakplaas unit and so was Dirk Coetzee. Dirk Coetzee did not apply for amnesty for your torture. Are you sure it was Dirk Coetzee. Can I just add ...

... 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 ...

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.

... 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 ...