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COETZEE, AJAge Description 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 ... In November 1989 Dirk Coetzee informed the world and I suppose De Klerk of the existence of Vlakplaas, a police unit on a farm outside Pretoria which specialized in assassinating government opponents. Nick van Rensburg and Dirk Coetzee have both applied for amnesty for the murder. ... upheld unanimously.’ // So far the statement, perhaps I should give a little bit of background. We’ve heard evidence from people like Dirk Coetzee and Eugene de Kock that they learned to incinerate the bodies of guerrillas while stationed in Rhodesia. But our statement in the February ... ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Coetzee could see that a storm was about to break and decided to use it as cover. Koos Vermeulen would stay outside while the others would enter the house. have done and they contradict themselves to a large degree. Now one wonders … // Or even people like Eugene de Kock who was the commander and Dirk Coetzee who was the commander? // None of them come and said yes collectively we have done this. If you would have listened to Mamasela’s evidence, ... there were various rumours that the security police were involved in so-called third force activities, and specifically Vlakplaas … amongst others Coetzee and Nofemela. In other words the information that came from this incident would of course place further pressure on the South African police ... ... The brain injury he suffered could not be explained away. Colonel Nick van Rensburg called in the expertise of the then Vlakplaas commander, Dirk ... Kondile was taken to Komatipoort where they met Coetzee. One of the officers gave Kondile poison. After about 20 minutes he passed out. The claim by a former police captain that he led a hit squad that eliminated government opponents has been firmly rejected by former police commissioner Gen Johan Coetzee. ... mother, this was a frustrating day. // Truly speaking I blame the policemen today who were supposed to have been telling their story, because what Coetzee said is irrelevant at this moment. As far as I’m concerned they should have said what they had come to say, what they know. And then, at a ... ... some background to the unpleasant infighting in the Truth Commission and we introduce you to some of the victims of former Vlakplaas policemen Dirk Coetzee, Almond Nofemela and Joe Mamasela. But we start with a special story about forgiveness. The Azanian People’s Army was much feared by white ... Of course, Coetzee did not lie. Virtually every word he said seven years ago he said again this week. Let’s go to the drama of the hearings in Durban. ... were people committing assassinations and that there was a unit which was used for that I would have acted violently myself. // Did you ignore Dirk Coetzee’s evidence? He was the commander of that unit and he came out in 1989 and said: I was the commander, this is what we did. // When Dirk ... by Peter Marshe and appeared in Beeld. We translated the words from Afrikaans. So they say they didn”t know much. Former Vlakplaas commanders Dirk Coetzee and Eugene de Kock are already on record saying they had no doubt that Vlok knew exactly what Vlakplaas did. The next question is. Even if ... The existence of Vlakplaas was exposed by Dirk Coetzee and Almond Nofemela in a Vrye Weekblad interview in November 1989. It was met with flat denials from generals and police officers. These lies were repeated under oath to the Harms Commission of Inquiry into state death squads. Vlakplaas was ... |
