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DE BEER, JH

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Was severely injured when MK operatives detonated an explosive in a car outside the South African Air Force (SAAF) headquarters in Church Street, Pretoria, on 20 May 1983. Twenty one people were killed and two hundred and seventeen injured. The overall commander of MK’s Special Operations Unit and two MK operatives were granted amnesty (AC/2001/003 and AC/2001/023). See Church Street Bombing, Pretoria.

... office at Mokwalo. On our arrival at Mokwalo they asked us about the fire arm that was lost, that is a fire arm belonging to a policeman called De Beer. We told them that we do not know anything about a gun. They then assaulted us. They took my friend. They took him into a room, the room that ...
In November last year Dirk Coetzee described Sizwe Kondile’s death to the Amnesty Committee in Durban. // Now, drops were administered to Sizwe Kondile in a drink whilst we were sitting around drinking ourselves, opening beer and whatever other drinks, alcohol. And after about 20 minutes to about ...
... Dolinschek, Sims and the four others went to the airport to meet Mike Hoare and the 44 mercenaries who were travelling disguised as the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers, a group of charitable beer drinking tourists, but inside their bags were ...
... about the disappearance of her son, Sizwe in 1981. The first time Dirk Coetzee heard the name Sizwe Kondile was in London in 1989. During lengthy debriefing by the ANC it became clear that Kondile had been one of Coetzee’s nameless victims. This week Sizwe Kondile’s family listened to the ...
... our removal to Mdantsane. At the same time they kept raising our rents. So when we came back from that funeral we burned down the rent office and beer ...
Joe Jordan, now a member of the Eastern Cape Legislature was detained between 1986 and 1989. His back was damaged during torture by East London police. // The chap was there drinking beer, if I can estimate his weight it was between 90 and 110 kilograms. He stood on my back with his boots and he ...
10:15 pm, June14 1986. A powerful car bomb explodes in front of the Why not Bar, a popular Durban nightspot. Three people die, 67 are injured. Helen Kearney was the barmaid. // There was this enormous explosion. What I remember is seeing flashing lights of all colours: red, blue, green and a ...
And Mr Coetzee then made the suggestion that if we did not the body to be found then he suggested that we burnt out the body. They had wood, a great deal of wood was available and that we should rather burn the body and they would ensure that the remains would be thrown into the Komati River. And ...
 
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