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BOTHA, (first name not given)Age Description ... Brigadiers Loots and Jack Cronje, as well as Colonel PR Crause, an agent by the name of McKenzie and a senior Special Forces commander who has not applied for amnesty. It was then presented to senior management of the security police and approved at that level. The security police’s ... ... to the Commission. ■ MR PW BOTHA’S REFUSAL TO APPEAR BEFORE THE COMMISSION 114 On 5 December 1997, the Commission issued a section 29 notice to former State President Mr PW Botha, asking him to appear before the Commission to answer questions about the State Security Council. The ... ... Dala, wife of murdered soldier Paulino Dala stated that: The men were beating him up and made him suffer. We just sat and had to watch. I cannot describe what we had to witness. We were crying all the time but the soldiers didn’t care … My husband’s eyes were beaten shut and he was ... ... met with a denial by the South African authorities. The position of these detainees was discussed at an SSC meeting on 23 April 1979 where it was noted that 119 of them were still being held at a camp (Keikanachab) near Mariental, a small town south of Windhoek. Of these, three were Angolan ... ... bases in the country – an early success for the strategy of counter-revolutionary warfare. What was also significant, and a lesson the SADF noted, was that this success owed more to the disruption to civilian life than to the damage inflicted on the military capacity of the ‘enemy’. ... ... Africa and, consequently, an effective logistical network. 120 General Magnus Malan, chief of the SADF and, from 1980, Minister of Defence, was first exposed to the theories of counter-insurgency in the United States where he completed the regular command and general staff officer’s course ... was a seventeen-year-old conscript in the SADF serving in Bloemfontein in 1978. After his basic training, he decided to join the navy because he did not want to serve on the border. He remained a member of the permanent forces for four and a half years and was deployed, first as a radio operator ... ... a national security staff function in the Office of the Prime Minister; a Working Committee and Secretariat to service the SSC. However, when PW Botha became Prime Minister in September 1978, little progress had been made with the exception of the establishment of fifteen inter-departmental ... a retired member of the Greytown Security Branch, a Warrant Officer Gwala. Gwala alleged that Pietermaritzburg and Greytown Security Branch members, notably Sergeants Simon Makhaye, Thulani Kleinbooi, Zimu and Mzolo, were responsible for Khumalo’s death. He told the Commission that Khumalo was ... ... applied for amnesty for the incident and the amnesty hearings took place in Port Elizabeth twenty years after Biko’s death. The Biko family did not ask the Commission to make a finding on his death. THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT THE DEATH IN DETENTION OF MR STEPHEN BANTU BIKO ON 12 SEPTEMBER 1977 ... n o w, the condonation and tolerance of extrajudicial activity had led to a culture of impunity throughout the security forces. 323. The Commission noted a number of words and phrases in security policy documents, speeches in Parliament and elsewhere in the mid-1980s such as: ‘elimineer’ ... ... to defend South Africa against what they perceived as an atheistic, unchristian foe. Others believed, equally vehemently, that the enemy was not out there; that the border was here in our midst, that certain things happened in waging wars that were thought to be totally necessary - things ... ... Chief Kaiser Matanzima was elected to the chief ministership, largely on the support of the non-elected chiefs. 23 Almost a decade passed before another homeland followed Transkei’s lead. Partly to avoid further delay, in 1970-71 the South African government passed two pieces of legislation ... when he was replaced by Brig. CJ ‘Cor’ van Niekerk. 43 Functionally, DST operated by project. In 1983 the arrangement was: DST 1: OC in 1983 not known but probably Col. Oelschig. By 1985, however, the OC of this section was Brig. Thackwray. Operation Disa (formerly Silwer) - aid to UNITA: ... ... was laid against a former employee of the Commission’s East London office. The matter was still pending at the time of reporting. c State v PW Botha. In this case, a criminal charge was laid against former state president Mr PW Botha following his refusal to appear before the Human Rights ... ... GRANTED 97/04/14 1190/96 BHILA, A CHAMBER GRANTED 97/04/02 0041/96 BLEKI, SL HEARING GRANTED 98/05/11 0057/96 BOTHA, DP HEARING GRANTED 97/09/05 (unlawful poss. of arms & ammu) 1703/96 BOTHA, JJC CHAMBER GRANTED 96/12/09 ... ... 349 At this time, De Kock also sent a team into Swaziland in an attempt to kill Mr Charles Ndaba. They failed in this objective but killed another person. In their amnesty applications, Paul van Dyk and Cornelius Johannes Botha said they were involved in an ambush inside Swaziland on 12 ... South Africa and in the homelands.42 By the late 1970s, it was clear to most in power that the policy framework was inadequate, that it was simply not working, and a policy of reform developed. The purpose of the new approach was clearly to attain stability and political accommodation, but there ... ... with the state, as informers and agents of the security forces, as well as attacks on security forces personnel are also documented here. They are not, however, strictly classified as ‘planned’ military operations, even in cases where they conformed to the general practice, if not the ... ... in line with its traditional defence function, and would create a force with appropriate training and equipment for such work. The meeting noted that similar models existed in countries such as Germany, Italy and the USA. 49 A ‘third force’ working group was set up, chaired by ... |
