COETZEE, DJ

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 ...

[Good evening and welcome to tonight’s programme. In Network tonight, an interview with General Coetzee, the Commissioner of the South African Police…] // [The General’s salute for General Coetzee, the Commissioner of the South African Police. He is often described as the enemy’s biggest ...

... and Sgt Johannes Raath, who have all since retried are seeking amnesty for their part in Sizwe Kondile’s death. Former Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee also wants amnesty for the same murder, but he has a separate amnesty application and a very different version of when, how and why the ...

Coetzee said a death squad, consisting of four black Vlakplaas policemen, did the actual killing. One of them, Almond Nofemela, admitted his involvement at the end of 1989. Nofemela was at the time on death row for another murder. David Tshikalanga confessed shortly afterwards. Coetzee and the ...

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 ...

House, operations for which minister Adriaan Vlok personally congratulated the Vlakplaas unit. Engelbrecht had to know of the bomb sent to kill Dirk Coetzee but killed Bheki Mlangeni when Coetzee refused to receive the parcel in Zambia. And then of course trips on the Vlakplaas gravy train. ...

... in two weeks’ time. The week after that the military generals will appear before the Truth Commission and then former Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee will stand before the Amnesty Committee. In the mean time, former minister of police, Adriaan Vlok and several policemen including the former ...

... their short lives they worked with and for impoverished communities like Duncan Village. Griffiths was eliminated in 1981by security policemen Dirk Coetzee and Joe Mamasela. Victoria was assassinated four years after her husband. While his killers are now facing trial, her murder is still a ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

The Committee of the Truth Commission that handles amnesty applications is now fully operational. And with the Dirk Coetzee controversy it is also very much in the news. Mister Justice Mall explains the amnesty process.

Nick van Rensburg and Dirk Coetzee have both applied for amnesty for the murder.

... De Kock said, were PW Botha, former ministers of law and order Louis Le Grange and Adriaan Vlok, former police commissioners Mike Geldenhuys, Johan Coetzee and Johan van der Merwe and a host of senior police generals and officers. Testifying about the bombing of COSATU house in the late 1980s De ...

... 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. ...

... man in the passenger seat of this car. His name is Col Andrew Russell Taylor of the Natal Security Police, charged with former Vlakplaas head Dirk Coetzee for the 1981 murder of Durban lawyer Griffiths Mxenge. Taylor is due to tell the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that the students ...

kept secret to protect their families. The Goldstone Commission’s report on Boipatong was never publicly released. Former Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee says the police death squads were ...

We’ve all heard of the dramatic stories of Dirk Coetzee and Eugene de Kock’s hit squad at Vlakplaas and the shady army unit, the CCB. And there is an impression that these formed the heart of the apartheid government’s violent strategy of torture and murder against pro-democracy activists. ...

Johannesburg magistrate has ruled that two members of the Orde Boerevolk, Leonard Veenendal and Darryl Stopforth can be extradited to Namibia. A decision now rests with the Minister of Justice, Mr. Kobie Coetzee, on whether the two should be handed over to Namibia to stand trial.

PW Botha knew about Vlakplaas and its evil mission. Cabinet ministers Louis le Grange and Adriaan Vlok knew. Police commissioners Johan Coetzee and Johan van der Merwe knew, in fact it was their idea. The last National Party president, FW de Klerk says he did not know. When he appeared before the ...

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.