Vlakplaas

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?

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... away to hide him somewhere and to give him time to recover from the obvious injuries that he had. He mentioned that they could have taken him to Vlakplaas for ...

... 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 ...

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

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 CORNELIUS: You were also stationed at Vlakplaas, of which we have the full details before the Committee in various applications and you held the rank as a sergeant, is that correct?

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... to many amnesty applications where silenced Makarovs were manufactured in Rebecca Street and distributed all over the place, used by people like Vlakplaas and so on. So it's, you know, we're talking about weapons that were tampered with, that were used in other situations, it wouldn't have ...

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.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...