Vlakplaas

... 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 ...

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.

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?

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?

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 LAMEY: Before you went to C2, you yourself were also a member of Vlakplaas.

Approximately seven years after that - well, in the meantime I'd been transferred to Pretoria Security Branch and I met the informer at Vlakplaas for the first time and I asked him what had happened during that incident and he explained to me what took place, or what had taken place."

MR CORNELIUS: You were also a member of Vlakplaas, as prescribed, and you had the rank of Constable, is that correct?

MR VISSER: Yes that's the case, Chairperson. If I may just mention that there other applicants from the Transvaal because Vlakplaas was present at the time and there are a whole bunch of, I'm not sure how many, of other applicants in that matter as well so it is already a longish matter.

CHAIRPERSON: Can I interrupt you for a moment. Was this a Vlakplaas vehicle?

MR S HUGO:: Then he says that you contacted him at Vlakplaas. You wanted to know if he had contact with the Ballistic Unit of the South African Police, seeing as he had some problems, did you say that to him?

MR PIENAAR: After his detention in Piet Retief he was taken away by head office. I don't know where else he was detained, but he later ended up at Vlakplaas, where he worked in C1, under Col de Kock.

... with them were referred to as Ovambos, that is persons from outside the country who had been members of Koevoet and who were now stationed at Vlakplaas.  The planned operation went awry and in consequence the two "Ovambos" engaged in a fire fight with the gun runners to defend ...

The first applicant testified that he was approached by Sergeant Andrejovic, a former Vlakplaas operative, who was stationed in Springs at the time of the incident. Andrejovic requested him to assist in getting rid of a body of a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) whose name was unknown to ...

... presumably accepted by family, friends and work associates. Their diabolical and cowardly actions even earned them silver medals for bravery at a Vlakplaas ceremony, of all the hideously ironical things, and they might even be proud of them. Just how sick is our society that we accept among us ...

... other forces involved in this conflict. The police, the South African Defence Force. We've also heard allegations of third force activities, of Vlakplaas, Battalion 32 has also come up and particularly around the train violence. There were certain periods in this part of the country where ...

... who was stationed at the Head Office in Pretoria at the relevant time. De Kock was the Commander of Section C1 of the Security Police situated at Vlakplaas near Pretoria. Van Rensburg was his immediate Commander. Snyman, Vermeulen and Ras were members of Section C1 under the command of de ...

... 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 ...

about half past nine. We were taken to a certain mountain. It is not far from Pukeng, but it is a hidden area. It was the same as the building at Vlakplaas. That is where we were tortured. There is certain Captain called du Preez. That is the one who was operating the electrical wires on us. ...