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COETZEE, JHAge Description ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... We suggest with respect Mr. Chairman that justice will not be served in these applications unless Mr. Coetzee is here and unless he is cross examined and we suggest that that should be done before we continue with our applications. 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 ... 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. 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 ... 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. 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Schoon told the TRC that he’d never been disciplined for authorizing actions of an illegal nature and said that former Commissioners and Ministers of police such as Louis Le Grange, Adriaan Vlok, Johan van der Merwe and Johan Coetzee had all visited Vlakplaas. 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. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... My brother was butchered like a beast in a butchery you know for doing nothing. An innocent victim. So you can just imagine the word ‘forgiveness’ in as far as Dirk Coetzee is concerned does not exist in our dictionary. 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 ... |
