Vlakplaas

... came to be involved in the incidents.  All were members of the South African Police and were part of the Security Branch C1 unit based at the Vlakplaas.  De Kock was the commander of the unit at the ...

allegedly carried out by a Vlakplaas Unit. If you could please just account for us these events.

... The Applicant testified that at the time of these instances he was a member of the South African Police's ("SAP") Security Branch ("SB"), based at Vlakplaas. He said that he had discussed both operations with his commander Col. De Kock, whom he believed had approved of ...

MR FORSTER: No, I did not operate any clandestine activities from there, in the sense that Vlakplaas would have with askaris and so forth.

MR HATTINGH: And once again, here we have the situation where Security Branches collects Intelligence and Vlakplaas is then brought in to act as the operational arm?

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

... say to me directly or indirectly,: "Look for a place where we can place 40 kilograms of plastic explosive", or whatever, that was the job of the Vlakplaas people. Each in these operations, once again for the need-to-know principle, what you didn't have to know was never told to you, if there ...

... we never heard anything except now that the inquest has started I heard that there were certain queries that it could possibly be members of the Vlakplaas. They say it is possible that it's them, but there is no surety. I saw it in the newspaper last ...

Mr Koole, before - could you just explain, were you part of a group of Vlakplaas who was in the area of the previous Eastern Transvaal prior to the abduction of Mngomezulu?

MR BOOYENS: During 1990, as you can see on your application, page 88, you were present at a roadblock where four Askaris were arrested, who later found themselves at Vlakplaas.

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 ...

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 VAN ZYL: The people involved in the actual killing were from Port Elizabeth. The abduction which was part of the operation, there was some assistance from the Vlakplaas Unit.

MR DU PLESSIS: To explain this to the Committee and to make it clear to them with regards to evidence that was given earlier on, C1 was Vlakplaas and it later became C10, is that correct?

... His involvement in the fourth incident, the attack on a house in Waterkloof resulted from the fact that he "happened" (toevallig was) to be at Vlakplaas when he was requested by a colleague, Martiens Ras, to drive his car (Ras's car) and accompany him to the house where several shots ...

concept of criteria, the liability of putting in to place things like Vlakplaas,

EXAMINATION BY MR JANSEN: Mr Ras, you were involved in the Cosatu House incident and your role was to drive the kombi to Johannesburg and back, in which some of the Vlakplaas operatives and some of the explosives experts people were, is that correct?

The incident occurred while a team of Vlakplaas members was assisting the Nelspruit Security Branch.  The team were led by Captain Baker and consisted further of Lieutenant Van Dyk, Sergeant Nofemela and Constable Nicholas Dube.

MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, it was with regard to mitigation and this was to explain the nature of Vlakplaas' activities to the Court.

... 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 ...