Vlakplaas

MR LAMEY: You were also a member of Vlakplaas.

MR PRINSLOO: I'm not going to take this any further Mr Chairman. Afterwards Vlakplaas was involved and specifically Eugene de Kock.

... 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 ...

... the deceased confessed that they had come to Botswana to kill as many of the MK cadres as possible. These were their instructions from the Vlakplaas Security Police. According to the plan they were to return to South Africa the next morning. They were first going to kill cadres at ...

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?

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 ...

... 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 ...

... newspaper and one police contacted us after seeing her picture on the newspaper and said he knew that girl, because he kept guard at that girl in Vlakplaas Police Station and the last time that police saw Nokuthula, Nokuthula was ill and she was severely and brutally tortured. The ...

... that you had with you at that stage. Let me just ask this directly, because he said that he had Uzzi weapons, silencers that they brought from Vlakplaas - or let me put it this way, did you have a weapon with ...

... projects of Special Forces.  Special Forces also worked in collaboration with the Civil Cooperation Bureau ("CCB") and Eugene de Kock's unit at Vlakplaas, ...

I think by more than one witness that there were nine to ten people in the building. There was evidence by Mr de Kock that not everybody who was at Vlakplaas participated in this ...

... 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 ...

... variety of stuff in an actual box that was under my command, so to answering that part of the question, yes, most certainly, the very fact that Vlakplaas was brought about confirms the statement that you've just made, the State-sponsored hit squad. It was easier to kill a person and ...

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.

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

MR BERGER: That's the Brig Schoon who was in charge of Vlakplaas?

... 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 ...

he's going to participate. Every person that's turned into an askari and I know of instances where people were turned into askaris without going to Vlakplaas, but with respect, the information which Prinsloo followed up which was valuable and he continued interrogation in order to ensure that he ...

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

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.