Vlakplaas

The Applicant was a member of the Security Police and at a stage a member of the Vlakplaas Unit. His application is formally in order and he applies for amnesty in eleven (11) incidents dealt with in his application in Schedules 1 to 11. The Committee will refer to the different schedules in its ...

... brother at the back when he was referring to the money that some have received, it is a dramatic example I think he was referring to that when the Vlakplaas Unit that specialised in the assassinating our people closed down, over 17 million rand was paid in golden handshakes to the assassins. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... handgrenade to be planted in a car in order to cause the arrest of prosecution of MK members. This happened on the same occasion when askaris from Vlakplaas were used in a trap to arrest MK members who brought weapons into the RSA to be handed to ANC members operating on the Rand. It was ...

... 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 ...

At the time of the incidents the Applicant was a member of Section C1, Vlakplaas.  During August he received instructions from his commanding officer, Colonel Eugene de Kock, to carry out certain operations under the command of Colonel Louis de Jager, then commander of the Intelligence Unit ...

MR MATHEBULA: I remember about Steenkamp, that he was present because at the time when I was working at Vlakplaas, we used to go to him. He came, but I don't remember when he talked to the deceased but he usually came to talk to Capt Prinsloo, though I don't know the content of their discussion.

... amnesty applications that he has made for the deaths of numerous people. He was also, if I am correct, he would have been, had responsibility for Vlakplaas. On the other hand, there is Dirk Coetzee and Dirk Coetzee has been criticised and attacked in numerous fora, the Vrye Weekblad case is an ...

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.

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.

MR BOTHA: Negative Mr Chairperson. I would just like to explain that Mr Ramatala's explanation concerning rewards for the askaris of Vlakplaas, is not as it was the normal practice.

... was aborted after ANC cadres became aware of the presence of the bomb in the kombi. No person was injured. According to the Applicant, the Vlakplaas Unit members had supplied the vehicle which they fitted with a bomb and the plan was that the device be detonated whilst the cadres were in ...

FURTHER EXAMINATION BY MR BOOYENS: Mr Kok, you have already given evidence in this application and in your evidence you mentioned that you were present with the people from Vlakplaas when the cassette player was bought along with the earphones, is that correct?

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."

Oosthuisen het my ook meegedeel dat hy met kol Eugene de Kock van Vlakplaas gereël het om die AK-patrone met plofstof te laai en sou hierdie bendelede hierdie vuurwapens nou met daardie plofstof gebruik, sou dit noodlottige gevolge gehad het vir die een wat dit gebruik. Hy het ook dan aan my ...

This house is not too far from Mbekweni, it is in Vlakplaas.