Vlakplaas

... us that time. I noticed that some of the names of the people who were part of the interrogating team have featured in other incidences, like the Vlakplaas incident and so forth. It was not surprising that their names popped up there. These men were sort of way above the law. They were way ...

MR THEJANE: There was a meeting at Vlakplaas where Eugene de Kock addressed us and he told us that the unit was being dismantled and they will organise that we get the packages.

MR SEMENYA: But let me tell you why he was using that name, he was using the name because he’s the very first person who disclosed the Vlakplaas story which was communicated to Lusaka, can you deny that Ma’am?

CHAIRPERSON: And nobody told you? When your team came back and reported to you, they didn’t tell you that they had been assisted by Coetzee from Vlakplaas and that he had brought the knockout drops?

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?

MR DU PREEZ: Over the course of many days, members of Vlakplaas reported that Khubeka had confirmed that she acted in a co-ordinating capacity and had played a leading role with regard to accommodation of externally trained terrorists in kwaMashu and had shown arms to them which she had stored on ...

... to identify a suitable terrain for the execution of the plan. A desolated farm was identified where members of Special Forces and members of the Vlakplaas unit of the Security Police would inject the activist with a substance which would cause them to fall in a comma. Thereafter they would be ...

... as if not having authorised the specific actions. It is submitted that the actions of units of Vlakplaas, Koevoet and other counter-insurgency units were silently if not directly authorised by the government, and were used outside the normal system to form part of the government’s ...

... say "I know there is a considerable amount of evidence pointing to Region 6 and the CCB's involvement, but I want to tell you that it was in fact Vlakplaas or Eugene de Kock or this person or that person, because we made our enquiries at the time and it revealed the following." Do you wish to ...

... Steenkamp and Brigadier Schoon and instructions were then given to Brigadier (then Colonel) Cronje, who was, inter alia, the officer-in-command of Vlakplaas, to make the necessary ...

MR KENDALL: As far as I knew Joe Mamasela was an Askari who had been transferred from Vlakplaas to Division Northern Transvaal.

MR LAMEY: You were also a member of Vlakplaas.

... who operated in Swaziland, but who later became an askari, as one of the killers. The alleged killers, according to Pauw are in all probability, a Vlakplaas death ...

... will now extend the capabilities of the police. Now, the immediate and the general rumour going around about that is, "Yes, yes, and then we got Vlakplaas," etcetera, etcetera. ...

... Schoon was not an applicant in this application. De Kock, in turn, through the usual line of command, involved other members of his unit at Vlakplaas in the operation, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and seventeenth ...

Applicant was an MK soldier who had been kidnapped and became an askari. He was ordered to identify members of MK who came back to the RSA after they had received training abroad. His commander at Vlakplaas was Captain De Kock.

... This resulted in close co-operation between him and Brigadier Jack Cronje who at that time was in command of what has since become known as the Vlakplaas unit of the Security Police. The applicant was asked by General Geldenhuys to work out a plan in order to effectively counter their ...

In 1982 I was stationed in Soweto. Col J.C. Coetzee who was then a Captain, was the Commander of Vlakplaas. At a stage earlier in 1982 he was busy with investigation and detection of terrorists in the Soweto environment. That was also my work in Soweto and it led to the fact that he and I began ...

... to many amnesty applications where silenced Makarovs were manufactured in Rebecca Street and distributed all over the place, used by people like Vlakplaas and so on. So it's, you know, we're talking about weapons that were tampered with, that were used in other situations, it wouldn't have ...

... at Danwater Police Station in Nigel. Philip alleges that one of the arrested officers was Eugene de Kock, former commander of police unit based at ...