Vlakplaas

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

MR POLSEN: Is this now Stratcom but not Vlakplaas? You were at Stratcom and not at Vlakplaas, because then you would have known these terms?

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 ...

... 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 ...

... want to emphasise my feelings in this hearing, in two phases. The first phase deals with us. By us I mean myself and my former colleagues at Vlakplaas, especially those who are present or who have been present in this hearing. My second phase will deal with my feelings towards the whole ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

MR HOCKEY: And the methods that were used by the CCB and Vlakplaas, was that according to you acceptable behaviour?

MR VISSER: So it's an insinuation? Alright. I just want to place on record that he left Vlakplaas and left the South African Police in December 1981.

MR VISSER: So it's an insinuation? Alright. I just want to place on record that he left Vlakplaas and left the South African Police in December 1981.

... received, not necessarily in relation to this operation, but in relation to other work that they would have done, and I refer here especially to Vlakplaas operatives, that they received bonuses in respect of their duties carried out there ...

MR VAN DER MERWE: And at the time of this incident you were a member of Vlakplaas, under the command of Eugene de Kock, is that correct?

CHAIRPERSON: I'm having difficulty with what you're trying to get at, Mr Stofile. You're questioning him, you're saying "why didn't you join Vlakplaas or the askaris?" Now he says "I didn't join them because I didn't want to kill people". Now you say "okay, I've got a problem with that, you ...

MNR HUGO: "En net om die rekord duidelik te kry, nie mnr de Kock of enige lede van Vlakplaas het sitting gehad op Trevits nie."

MR VISSER: And he was at Vlakplaas?

and those who died, Peter Nkosi, I know them, for instance Vincent Mama who died with Diseko in other operation and some were for instance killed by Vlakplaas, Vincent Mama, there was an inquiry about that, so they subsequently died, some of them, in other incidents in which they were involved ...

MR MEYER: I recall that we went to Vlakplaas, where we obtained the arms. It was quite late that afternoon and after we had received the arms, we went through to Krugersdorp where we found the then Captain Coetzee.

MR CORNELIUS: You were also stationed at Vlakplaas, of which we have the full details before the Committee in various applications and you held the rank as a sergeant, is that correct?

... at the time had already embarked on a program which was to turn some of our people into what we now refer to as Askaris and at the time, I think Vlakplaas was, I think at it's ...(indistinct) stages. I may not have personally have been fully conversant with the finer details of the entire ...