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KOCK, MMAge Description ... because of this gap, opening up possibilities of miscommunication, misinterpretation and possibly, as Mr FW de Klerk suggested, male fides. 4 E de Kock, A long night’s damage: working for the apartheid state. Saxonwold: Contra Press, 1998, p. 227. ... ... Lieutenant Colonel Eric Taylor [AM3917/96], Colonel Harold Snyman [AM3918/96] and Major Hermanus Barend du Plessis [AM4384/96]. Eugene de Kock [AM0066/96] and Captain JM ‘Sakkie’ van Zyl [AM 5637/97] applied for amnesty for knowledge relating to the killings. 250 The amnesty ... ... traffic in the area which was very high till the early hours of the morning. The effect of the explosion was unpredictable. Colonel Eugene de Kock, who led the SAP bombing team, foresaw the possibility of loss of life as did Mr Vlok, who considered it a miracle that no one was killed. The ... ... on 28 March 1988 [AC/2001/228 & AC/2001/119]. The applicants were Messrs JH le Roux [AM4148/96], JC Meyer [AM4152/96] MJ Naude [AM4362/96], EA de Kock [AM0066/96], JC Coetzee [AM4120/96] and WF Schoon [AM4396/96]. 150 . Brigadier Schoon, head of Group C at Security Branch Headquarters, told ... ... were killed in an armed raid on two houses in Maseru. The attack was conducted by members of the Vlakplaas C-Section, led by Colonel Eugene de Kock. Details of the attack appear in Volume Two of the Commission’s report. 105 Reports were received of skirmishes between the security forces ... ... his involvement in the killing. Both expressed the view that Dolinchek had been responsible for the killing. Former Vlakplaas Commander Eugene de Kock reported that one of his informants, former BOSS member Piet Botha, told him that Dolinchek had killed Turner and that Dolinchek’s ... ... and operatives from Vlakplaas were all involved in giving instruction and training at the camp. These included Vlakplaas Commander Eugene de Kock and Vlakplaas operative Lionel ‘Snor’ Vermeulen (see amnesty application and De Kock’s evidence in mitigation of sentence at his trial). ... Swaziland. Msibi was abducted and taken to Daisy Farm. 185. Although the Eastern Tramsvaal Security Branch claimed that Msibi became an informer, De Kock denied this at his amnesty hearing. Addressing Mr Msibi’s family, he said: And I just want to tell you that his dignity and his integrity, ... ... Cape by all means’ and the latter in response to an instruction by Security Branch Headquarters to work with Special Forces . 316. Colonel de Kock and other applicants said that, because external operations put operatives in a far more vulnerable position, they always sought approval for ... ... where political actions become increasingly blurred and descend into total criminality. It accounts for why people like Colonel Eugene de Kock and some amnesty applicants will remain in custody. Some of their actions were acts of sheer criminality. 81. The Commission relied on a ... ... of General Steyn by President de Klerk to investigate the allegations of armed forces involvement in the violence. At the same time, Colonel de Kock was approached by his superiors and asked to resign from the police force. 32. Although General Steyn’s and subsequent investigations were ... ... the project. Trainees received instruction in offensive methods and the use of AK 47s. With the assistance of former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock, Powell arranged for the delivery of a number of truckloads of sophisticated weaponry to be delivered to the region. 79. On 15 March 1994, the ... ... that Mr Joe Slovo had been responsible for the death of his wife, Ruth First. 351. Captain Willem Coetzee testified that he had given Major de Kock a letter to place at the ambush scene of three SANSCO107 students in February 1989 to suggest that they had been killed by the ANC, following ... ... This state of emergency lasts until March 1986. Maki Skosana is necklaced on 25 July at the funeral of several people killed by police. Eugene de Kock assumes command of Vlakplaas in July. Victoria Mxenge, a Durban attorney, is assassinated in Umlazi on 1 August. This triggers a rapid ... ... twelve former security policemen, including two former divisional commanders of the Soweto Security Branch and former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock, testified before the Commission. 18 The broader enquiry also heard in camera testimony from members of the National Intelligence Agency ... ... Gamedze was neither one of them nor an agent of any other operative. Gamedze died sometime after this incident in a car accident. 281 Eugene de Kock has linked an informer code-named ‘Rasta’ to Viva’s killing. Moreover, in its second submission to the Commission, the ANC included the ... ... Almond Nofemela and David Tshikilange [AM0065/96] for which they have applied for amnesty. According to a statement to the Commission by Eugene de Kock, and further oral evidence at a Commission amnesty hearing, the murder of the couple was authorised by Brigadier Willem Schoon, then head of C ... ... up 221 contacts in which 346 people were killed and only twenty-three captured. For an unknown reason, this document did not include Eugene de Kock, who put his number of contacts at about 400.9 He gives no details of his killing rate but popular legend has it that it was the highest of all ... ... of fighting fire with fire. Its top echelon comprised battle-hardened veterans of the Rhodesian war. Amongst these were Dreyer, Colonels Eugene de Kock and Eric Winter, Captains Sakkie van Zyl and ‘Beachball’ Vorster, Lieutenant Frans Conradie and Warrant Officer ‘Snakes’ Greyling. ... Africa and frequent travelling to Europe amounted to “grounds for suspicion”. 313 In an interview with the Commission in April 1998, Eugene de Kock described the September assassination as a CCB operation managed by Commandant Dawid Fourie, its deputy head, in which the two who pulled the ... |
