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KOCK, MMAge Description ... operatives including Wouter Mentz [AM2775/96], Colonel Dave Baker and Warrant Officer Louw van Niekerk were under orders from Colonel Eugene de Kock. 241 There were, in addition, numerous arson attacks on properties housing antiapartheid organisations. During 1985, union offices in Cape ... ... MAJOR GENERAL JOEP JOUBERT; FORMER COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, GENERAL JOHAN VAN DER MERWE; BRIGADIER CRONJÉ; FORMER VLAKPLAAS COMMANDER, EUGENE DE KOCK; VLAKPLAAS ASKARIS DANIEL NKALA AND JOE MAMASELA, AND SPECIAL BRANCH MEMBERS ROELOF VENTER, MARTHINUS DELPORT AND FRANCOIS STEENKAMP. THE ... ... inquire into and report on the oversight on the monetary system and the monetary policy in South Africa. Date of Report: November 1982 Chair: DE KOCK, G.P.C. Ref: RP 93/1982 1982 Commission of Inquiry into the Mass Media Mandate: To continue with and build on the work of the Van Zijl ... ... 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 ... ... and ultimately killed, have left many South Africans deeply shocked. The media has understandably focused on these events - labelling Eugene de Kock, the Vlakplaas commander, ‘Prime Evil’. The vast majority of victims who either made statements to the Commission or who appeared ... ... not afford the resources in time, money and personnel that wewould have had to invest in such an operation. Judging from what happened inthe De Kock and so-called Malan trials, the route of trials would have stretchedan already hard-pressed judicial system beyond reasonable limits. It would ... ... 1998, with Mr Victor Lugaju presiding.19 Amongst the witnesses for the state were Archbishop Tutu and other members of the Commission. Mr Eugene de Kock also gave evidence. 116 On 21 August 1998, Mr Botha was found guilty of failing to attend at the time and place specified in the subpoena. He ... ... of the unit); Capt Dirk Coetzee (1980-81); Capt Jan Carel Coetzee (1982); Lt Col Jack Cronje (1983-1985) - later a brigadier); Col Eugene de Kock (1985-1993) The Riot Squad 20 During the 1960s the SAP established Divisional Anti-Riot Units throughout South Africa. 21 Throughout the ... ... 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 ... ... to call Brigadier Schoon at the Security Branch headquarters in Pretoria and request the assistance of Vlakplaas. Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock evaluated the request and chose Bellingan to lead a team of operatives. Other members were a black security policeman known as Thapelo Johannes ... ... that in fact they are sorry about what they did. 100 A few amnesty applicants did seem sensitive to this need for restitution. Colonel Eugene de Kock devoted the royalties from the sale of his autobiography to a trust fund for victims. Mr Sakkie van Zyl saw his participation in the clearing of ... ... they viewed as a war context. 186 Former leaders subsequently distanced themselves from those who were doing the work of the state. As Eugene de Kock said in mitigation of sentence, “One would now believe that I was the only individual who fought the ANC.†Once loyal subjects of ... ... 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. ... ... 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 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... tend to have less emotions about their acts than do victims. This may be illustrated in the recent book by Vlakplaas operative Colonel Eugene de Kock9, where repeated acts of violence are described in a matter-of-fact manner: I continued to shoot at him. He finally fell down dead. Nortje ... ... at times covertly proud of the violent actions of ‘their own’. 44 Sometimes, this pride was not even covert. Colonel Eugene de Kock was awarded numerous medals for his actions. It is claimed that the former Minister of Law and Order, Mr Adriaan Vlok, attended a party with ... |
