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COETZEE, MPAAge Description 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 ... ... 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 ... 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. 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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. ... will probably spend time in jail, because of the apparent administrative incompetence of the Amnesty Committee, or is it being done to punish Coetzee? Well, that was tonight’s programme. Watch this space for new revelations on the real story behind all the lies told about the role of the ... Kondile was taken to Komatipoort where they met Coetzee. One of the officers gave Kondile poison. After about 20 minutes he passed out. 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. 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. 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 ... ... 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 ... ... four policemen responsible for killing Sizwe Kondile (held in Cape Town 9 to 13 February 1998) The policemen?s testimonies contradicts that of Dirk Coetzee?s who is also applying for amnesty for his involvement with the incident. The segment also includes an interview with Charity Kondile, ... |
