Vlakplaas

allegedly carried out by a Vlakplaas Unit. If you could please just account for us these events.

... commuters in Soweto and other places. In those who raped women and killed innocent children, all these including the Gestapo murder squads of Vlakplaas, the Mamaselas, De Kocks, Coetzees and those of the killing fields of Natal. Including all that, we find that all of them "hulle is ...

... came to be involved in the incidents.  All were members of the South African Police and were part of the Security Branch C1 unit based at the Vlakplaas.  De Kock was the commander of the unit at the ...

... The Applicant testified that at the time of these instances he was a member of the South African Police's ("SAP") Security Branch ("SB"), based at Vlakplaas. He said that he had discussed both operations with his commander Col. De Kock, whom he believed had approved of ...

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.

Like these statements that have been made on TV by Mr Mamasela who - who has been part of the Vlakplaas security network. I was watching him on TV when he confessed that Niewoudt was beating- in fact was responsible for the beating of the PEBCO 3 who disappeared in the ‘80’s

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.

MR VAN DER MERWE: And at the time of this incident you were a member of Vlakplaas, under the command of Eugene de Kock, is that correct?

MR PIENAAR: I went that morning to Moolman, where I found Mr Mngomezulu along with other members from Vlakplaas and upon my arrival there it was clear to me that Mr Mngomezulu had already been assaulted. I don't know by whom. I asked the members present there to focus themselves on the question ...

MR VISSER: And he was at Vlakplaas?

MR LAX: Well then they may have then brought in a specialised unit like Vlakplaas or someone else, to do that.

... that Mr Willemse who was, I believe, the most junior ranking person involved in the execution of the operation, he was a sergeant at the time at Vlakplaas, the same applies as far as he's a foot soldier is concerned, Mr Chairman. I therefore submit, Mr Chairman, that this Committee can be ...

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

... 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 ...

MR LAMEY: You were also a member of Vlakplaas.

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 ...

It was the culmination of an operation carried out by members of the Security Branch of the South African Police, including members of the C10 Unit (Vlakplaas) and members of the East Rand Division. The operation was the idea of and formulated by Johannes Velde van der Merwe (the 7th Applicant) ...

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