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COETZEE, AJAge Description Coetzee, Nofemela and Tshikalanga have applied for amnesty. The Mxenge family has lodged an application with the constitutional court to declare the Truth Commission unconstitutional. // Mamasela, Dirk Coetzee, Nofemela, Tshikalanga and those brigadiers who gave them instructions, they’ve ... ... found no substance in the allegations. After state president FW de Klerk received the McNally report the Harms Commission of inquiry was appointed. Coetzee testified before the Commission in South Africa house in London. // ‘Coetzee het getuig voor die kommissie dat hy van Brigadier Van der ... Coetzee says that the lethal knock out potion was mixed by General Luther Neethling. In the 1980s an appeal court was unable to refute or to confirm the truth of this. In a letter addressed to the Amnesty Committee this week, Neethling emphatically denied that he was involved in any way with ... ... continued to ignore us and this appeared very strange to me. After we had passed them we were a bit of a distance past them I asked Warrant Officer Coetzee to turn around and drive back to the five men. While we were moving in the direction of these five men I asked Coetzee to stop in front of ... Nobody in his right mind could ever forgive Dirk Coetzee. I mean you hear my brother was butchered like a beast in a butchery, for doing nothing. An innocent victim, so you can just imagine the word ‘forgiveness’ as far as Dirk Coetzee is concerned does not exist in our dictionary. What ... ... trips. But behind this mask of charm and kindness lies a life of incredible violence and brutality. After blowing up Bheki Mlangeni instead of Dirk Coetzee in 1981, he said it didn’t matter that it was Bheki and not Coetzee. Bheki Mlangeni was anyway a member of the ANC. De Kock was very ... Coetzee, Nofemela and Tshikalanga were convicted of the murder of Griffiths Mxenge in the Durban High Court last month. This week they were granted amnesty. The amnesty finding means they will no longer be liable for prosecution in respect of Mxenge’s murder. The Committee says that while there ... I then made a recommendation to this effect. The then commissioner of police Gen Johan Coetzee in turn presented the recommendation to the minister, Louis le Grange, who was then the minister of police. Mister le Grange approved the relevant recommendation. I thereafter discussed the matter with ... ... and he specifically told me that the order came from Minister Louis le Grange and that President PW Botha as well as ex-commissioner General Johan Coetzee knew about it. And approved it. ... On the evening of 26 November 1981 a group of Vlakplaas men under command of Dirk Coetzee entered Botswana. Their aim was to kill ANC cadres Joyce Dipale, her husband Tieho Rola Masinga and anybody else in the Gaborone house who would, according to their intelligence, probably be ANC as well. be available. // So it’s a scheduling problem. // Well, I don’t know. Probably. // When questioned recently in Parliament Justice Minister Kobie Coetzee said that my father’s killer could be protected by the amnesty. When asked why he wouldn’t meet with me he said he had no idea that I was ... ... of silence and exposed the apartheid state’s death commandoes. It was going to cost them dearly. Two weeks ago a Durban judge found Dirk Coetzee and Almond Nofemela, together with David Tshikalanga guilty of the murder they had confessed to in 1989, that of lawyer and activist ... Van Rensburg says he called his colleague Dirk Coetzee to ask for assistance in the murder. The security police then faked Kondile’s release from the Jeffrey’s Bay police cells and later abducted him and drove him to the border at Komatipoort. ... policemen came to me. They said good afternoon. And I said hello. And then I asked sir, who actually shot my son? They introduced the one as Capt Coetzee and the other as Lt Oosthuysen. When I asked who shot my son he said. I shot your ... ... of slaps sucks your skin into that hole until it is total agony. Colonel Swanepoel, the notorious ‘Rooi roos’ [red rose] was there, Johan Coetzee was there, Van der Berg was there, 1964 … was in the room when I was being tortured. So I’m saying I find it very, very strange that this ... ... been arrested. Reliable sources say … // … A knife wielding men left eight people injured. // [Inaudible] towers police chief Major-General IG Coetzee has called in a crack team of special investigators to solve the mysteries surrounding the killing of six people in a bus ambush at KwaMashu ... Early this morning Dirk Coetzee was fetched by the witness protection team to be taken to his amnesty hearing. He’s one of about a 100 people who have been protected since the Commission started. Another was Phumzile Priscilla Ntimbane. // As the Truth Commission have started in Tembisa I got a ... ... townships had reached boiling point. On February 19, Minister of Law and Order, Louis Le Grange visited Uitenhage with police Commissioner Johan Coetzee. The town’s senior police officers, known as the order group, explained that soft weaponry for riot control was no longer effective and ... ... between 30, 35. // Who was the first man you had killed? // It was Griffith Mxenge // Why did you kill him? // It was instructions from Dirk Coetzee and Brigadier Van der Hofen. ... The names of Eugene de Kock, Dirk Coetzee and Joe Mamasela have become household names in South Africa the last few years. So has the name Vlakplaas, the farm where these efficient killers had their base. The secret of the so-called successful death squad was the use of a group of men and women ... |
