BOTHA, JJ

Badenhorst said Webster’s killing came up again, often. // I began to take it seriously when he told me in about 1995 that Calla Botha was the driver of the car. He said Calla was so shocked that he had to threaten him with a gun to get him to drive away. He told me Webster was an ANC activist ...

... found that there was also prima facie evidence that CCB members Staal Burger, Ferdi Barnard, Chappies Maree, Wouter Basson, Johan Niemoller, Calla Botha, Slang van Zyl and CCB commander, Joe Verster were accomplices to the murder. Magnus Malan says he has never heard of this ...

... Levy found that there was prima facie evidence that these men were accomplices to the murder: Ferdi Barnard, Chappie Maree, Staal Burger, Calla Botha, Slang van Zyl, Joe Verster, as well as Johan Niemoller and Wouter Basson. The controversial part of Judge Levy’s finding was that Acheson ...

... against Madikizela-Mandela and others. Talking about criminal charges and problematic public figures, as we expected, former State President PW Botha did not arrive at the Truth Commission hearing in Cape Town on Friday. If he insists on ignoring the subpoena to cooperate his chances of going ...

... force was never established as a separate force. But listen to this: According to the minutes of the State Security Council former president PW Botha asked on 20 June 1988 what had happened to the Third Force proposals. The then Commissioner of Police, General de Wit told him that the ...

... Warrant Officer Paul van Vuuren. They will give evidence about more than forty murders and are expected to directly implicate former president PW Botha, former police minister Louis Le Grange and Generals such as Basie Smit and Johan van der Merwe. Van der Merwe will testify on their behalf. ...

In 1985 the then State President PW Botha declared the state of emergency in response to the growing internal unrest inside the country. In 1986 the second State of Emergency followed. For the first time in its history the South African Defence Force was deployed on a massive scale inside the ...

... an informer. In Cape Town, Major-General Deon Mortimer presents the South African Defence Force?s submission to the TRC, by and large defending Botha?s total strategy. Deputy chairperson Alex Boraine highlights the serious omissions in the SADF submission. Former commissioner of police, Gen ...

At precisely 12:30 on the 20th of May 1987 a limpet mine exploded outside the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court. A group of police officers on duty in the vicinity responded immediately. They rushed to the aid of passersby, unaware of the bomber, MK operative Joseph Kwetle who was stationed nearby.