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DU PLESSIS, PC

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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.

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... of young ultra-right wingers started a long term plan to ensure continued white rule in South Africa. The political leader of the group was Jean du Plessis. His father, Arman du Plessis was a member of the Boere Bervrydings Beweging. He had a strong influence on his son and his high school ...
... to 19 July) and the HRV Committee hearings held in Pietersburg / Polokwane (17 to 19 July). In Pretoria, two members of an ultra right cell, Jean du Plessis and Jean van Wyk, applied for amnesty for killing three people during an armed robbery and two former security guards, Hennie Gerber and ...
... reports on the progress of the Amnesty Committee: the new cut-off date for amnesty applications will benefit those that committed violent crimes during the negotiations era; Trust Feed killer Brian Mitchell was granted amnesty as well as former Conservative Party MP Koos Botha, for bombings ...
My father believed the white race was superior. He believed that all other races were mud races, sub-races that did not have a right to exist. // Du Plessis and Van Wyk attended services of the ”Church of the Creator.” Their bible was called ‘the white man’s bible’. // I believed that ...
I spoke to Capt van Zyl. I believe after all the years that it took place in my office. At that stage I also spoke to Capt Niewoudt and explained to them what the problem was that we were faced with. I can just mention that Mr. Niewoudt and Mr. Van Zyl at that stage were completely aware of the ...
My impression with great piety your honour, my impression was that he was extremely militant because of the conflict of the black ideology and the white really came to the fore. // He was a leader among the people involved in the schools unrest. He was also responsible for chasing pupils out of the ...
After all the facts had been discussed and the matter was investigated did you decide that Mr Kondile had to be killed? // That is correct.
Du Plessis is serving a twelve year prison sentence and Van Wyk life imprisonment. This week they appeared before the Amnesty Committee. Both men believe they have been rehabilitated. Du Plessis had converted to Christianity and started a regular church service in jail. // Not only the three people ...
to their husbands since their disappearance in 1985. This week they got some answers. Former Eastern Cape Security Policemen Harold Snyman, Hermanus du Plessis, Johan van Zyl, Gideon Niewoudt and Gerhardus Lotz are asking for amnesty for the murder of the Pebco Three. Vlakplaas operatives Roelf ...
At the University of Pretoria Du Plessis, Grobbelaar and Van Wyk joined the right wing ‘Afrikaner Studentefront.’ // We decided that Mr. Nelson Mandela’s meeting on campus would not go ahead. We decided to disrupt the meeting with violence.
... Erasmus who gave the order for the killing; General Nick van Rensburg, a multiple killer who assassinated one of the young men; Colonel Hermanus du Plessis, co-conspirator; and Colonel Gideon Niewoudt, also a multiple killer, torturer and liar who fired his bullet into the other activist. For ...
Racism is not a political motive the Committee found in December. Among the applications rejected on this basis were those of Jean du Plessis and Cornelius van Wyk of the ‘Nasionaal Sosialistiese Partisane.’ They are serving prison sentences for murder and robbery. The Committee decided that ...
... possibly be ANC cabinet ministers and senior government officials who spied on their comrades for the apartheid police? The claim was first made during Jacques Hechter’s evidence and then amplified by his legal counsel, Roelof du Plessis. // There are people in the current government, in ...
What I’m saying is that we didn’t kidnap them to interrogate them. We kidnapped them to kill them.
Two men dominated this week’s amnesty hearing into the 1985 murders of the Port Elizabeth leaders known as the Pebco Three. The Centenary Hall in New Brighton was cramped daily by residents and activists who came to hear security policemen Gideon Niewoudt and Vlakplaas askari Joe Mamasela speak ...
Mining was South Africa’s first modern industry and was crucially shaped by the colonial and the racial hierarchy of the day. Migrant labour, job reservation, wage distribution, housing, health care and other conditions of service were racially described. The racial organisation of work was ...
... Louis Trichardt we decided that we were past the point of return. People had died. The police could be looking for us. We could not turn back. // During operations the next few days NSP members obtained weapons and ammunition. Jurgen Grobbelaar’s parents became worried when he didn’t ...
Special Forces designed the bomb for us. // Who in particular was involved? // They had a technical section, I don’t know who did it but Joe Verster handed the bomb to Capt Hechter. // The secretive Joe Verster was the commander of the CCB. // The bomb was made of plastic explosives, about 4 kg. ...
The fact that he was in a wheelchair, did he attend meetings in his wheelchair and address the meetings from his wheelchair? // Yes that is correct. They transported him from one meeting to the next where he addressed these meetings and used as an example that whatever the system wished to do to ...
And do you believe that the murder of the Pebco Three was warranted. // At that stage yes.
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