Vlakplaas

MR BOSCH: Chairperson, I received instructions from Col de Kock to transport the persons from Vlakplaas to Khanya House. I prepared the minibus, in other words I put on false plates and filled the petrol in it and I think beforehand I went to drive around the place in order to familiarise myself ...

... actions included DST's Operation Katzen in the Eastern Cape; and operations conducted by the SADF's Special Forces, the CCB, the SAP's Units C10 (Vlakplaas) and C4 ...

... application. In fact, we were going to clean out, for example, in a so-called stationery raid, the whole of Portland Place, in conjunction with Vlakplaas, but that was many years later. So to answer your question Mr Chairman, a lot of it was for operational ...

We are now dealing with applications pertaining to the so-called Parker Pen Set Bomb Incident. All the Applicants herein were members of the Vlakplaas Unit, a component of the South African Security Police ("SAPS"). They all worked under de Kock who was their operational commander. They are ...

... 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 ...

... acts, they were there to gather information on activists and from other sources, but we know that the Security Branch established the thing called Vlakplaas, we know that there were murders committed by the Security Police, why does it follow now that they can make that jump from their ...

Thank you. Let me just ask you one final question. Have you heard of a place or a case called Vlakplaas? --- I don't know what is that.

... steps and to issue the necessary orders to carry out the operation. Schoon instructed de Kock, the commander of C-Unit of the Security Police at Vlakplaas to take the necessary steps to carry out the intended explosion. The operation had to be carried out in Johannesburg and de Kock had ...

MR GOOSEN: From Security Headquarters, where he was a commanding officer of 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 ...

... Schoon was in charge of Section C of the Security Branch in Pretoria and had under his command Colonel de Kock, who was the commander of the Vlakplaas unit. Captain van Dyk and Sergeant Willemse were members of this unit and fell under de Kock's command. Colonel Visser was head of ...

Each and every person I investigated, though the TRC calls them a perpetrator, they later on became my friends, all of them, from Vlakplaas askaris and so on, and after my investigation, I still had contact with them and in our discussion and in our contact, a certain information came to me 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 ...

... 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 ...

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?

... 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 ...

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."

... 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 ...