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KOCK, MMAge Description The group was divided into De Kock, myself, Snor and Steve went to their house where the ANC members had a party. Outside their house De Kock killed an ANC member who was driving away. After that De Kock and I went to their house, where we killed the other five ANC members. Joe, Anton, and ... ... lost consciousness he picked him up, he threw him up in the sky and when Brian landed with this certain thud, he jumped. You know, if you know De Kock, he’s a big guy with a big torso. He jumped several times in the face of Ngqulunga. Ngqulunga told him that he wanted to get out of Vlakplaas, ... ... no prosecutions and the one prosecution that we’ve had so far is just the foot soldiers. And they have killed. I mean, you talk about Eugene de Kock, someone like Israel Hlongwane has killed dozens of people, I mean there are dozens of Eugene de Kock’s running around this region and nobody ... ... cannot condone that. // Why didn’t you take those policemen to court? Why didn’t you take the Coetzee to court, why didn’t you take Eugene de Kock to court, why didn’t you charge them with murder then, in the eighties? Now we are doing it post-election. // It is a good question Max, but ... ... This is where we will stay for the foreseeable future. On tonight’s programme you will meet the man they call ‘prime evil,’ Eugene de Kock and he is not at all what we thought he would be like. We also introduce you to a woman who explains what solitary confinement does to the human ... Judge Willem van der Merwe indicated that retribution and the feelings of society rather than stopping De Kock from repeating his crimes, weighed heavily. If South Africa still had the death penalty De Kock would today probably have been on death row. Mister Justice van der Merwe said the sentence ... ministers and generals, down to ordinary policemen exploded in their faces as the man who calls himself apartheid’s top assassin Colonel Eugene de Kock spilled the beans in an effort to save himself. We’ll give you the background of De Kock’s sensational statements tonight and how it could ... ... was the end of Bheki. // The person who did this has been found. I want this person to come out. This person is already on trial, it’s Eugene de Kock. What I’d like the Commission to find out from him, I’m not clear how Bheki’s name got involved as a sender in the parcel. Another thing ... On Friday Eugene de Kock testified. He was not involved in the killing but heard about it from his former Koevoet colleague, Sakkie van Zyl. Van Zyl told De Kock a tale that differs from the version that he put before the Amnesty Committee. ... and did not injure her. Thereafter I went out through the kitchen door again and I saw Nyanda trying to jump out of the bathroom window. Eugene de Kock shot him with an AK47. He fell, got up and ran away. De Kock shot him in his ... ... which he explains the whole attack. The TRC Special Report exposed the whole story. Nortje states that the attack was planned and led by Eugene de Kock, commander of Vlakplaas, who is on trial for murder in Pretoria. They were helped by a police agent who lived among the ANC people in Maseru. ... ... Mike Geldenhuys. It also includes the names of generals Basie Smit, Krappies Engelbrecht and Johan le Roux. All three were implicated by Eugene de Kock in his murder trial and they’re about to be subpoenaed by the Truth Commission. Many of the violent acts for which the men wanted amnesty have ... What difference does it make when a perpetrator does seem to be genuinely remorseful? In the 1980s Eugene de Kock was the commander at the notorious Vlakplaas and one of the security police’s most powerful and efficient operatives. He is now serving life plus 212 years in Pretoria Central Prison. ... Mr. Justice Willem van der Merwe will soon have to decide, is Eugene de Kock simply a cold blooded serial killer or a victim of a vicious system that used and abused him, or perhaps both. Hopefully this is a beginning of a new era of truth. There are dozens of men, politicians, generals and ... ... 30, 35. // Why did you kill these people? // It was instructions from the head office, instructions from immediate commanders. // People like De Kock? // People like De Kock, and if you don’t do these killings, they kill ... Black policemen at Vlakplaas were called askaris, they did most of the killing for Eugene de Kock, yet their lives were worth nothing and they were executed as easily as they killed opponents of the apartheid government. // Talk about a dog that feeds on its puppies; that was De Kock. He fed on his ... Eugene de Kock rejected it. I was actually living on Vlakplaas. Williamson didn’t know I was living on Vlakplaas at that time. As soon as he left, Eugene called me and said the guy has just been here and asked me to kill you. And he told him that if he wanted to kill me he should do it. But ... ... when we arrived in prison, there was a certain member of a Russian gang - there was a gang called the Russians -and he relate to us how De Kock was involved in destabilizing particularly the ANC in Kuma. He made mention of De Kock giving money so as to assassinate Mary Agnes ... Then, amidst some of the tightest security yet seen at the TRC Eugene de Kock took the stand. De Kock was one of the Security Branch’s most trusted, powerful and efficient operatives. He said fraud was a major reason for the cover-up that was the Motherwell bomb. De Kock’s version differed from ... ... had been triggered by the discovery of this huge arms cash near Krugersdorp. But it was not an ANC’s arms cash as the generals claimed. Eugene de Kock says his Vlakplaas unit had in fact been asked to supply the weapons that were then planted. It was done in order for the SADF to justify their ... |
