Vlakplaas

it briefly. May I just ask you beforehand, on previous occasions you have conceded that your memory with regard to the events of the past, there at Vlakplaas, is somewhat vague, is that ...

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 ...

... security branch of the South African Police and the South African Defence Force special task forces would identify targets. At that stage the Vlakplaas Unit C2 was the interrogative unit and the C2 was TREVITS. Each region had its own target identifying unit and the regions were West ...

MS GCABASHE: Having read you Section 29 evidence, you talk of Vlakplaas and Trevitts and you talk about Regional Security Branch meetings, you know how you move from your, you do with the lower level chaps, you had your regional meetings and these would eventually be reported in whichever form to ...

... of the arguments. And Mr Jagga, after this raid approximately 14 persons were killed - 9 persons were killed, and this was a raid by people from ...

MR BOOYENS: And did you accept that this was the sort of work which was in either event was carried out by Vlakplaas?

... 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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

Moni and Monyami both askaris from Vlakplaas, were instructed by Pretorius to organise training for the unit at a hotel room in Hillbrow. It is not clear whether the objective of getting more information about the various activities of the unit and its association with the underground structures ...

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

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 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.

report talked about a possible link with the notorious Vlakplaas. I

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 ...

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

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?