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MEYER, JACAge Description ... end of tonight’s report. This coming week we’ll see former cabinet ministers like Pik Botha, Adriaan Vlok, Magnus Malan, Leon Wessels and Roelf Meyer testifying before the Truth Commission’s special hearing on the inner workings of the State Security Council that effectively ruled South ... there was the Potchefstroom bomb in October 1988, planted in a building that housed the security police. Whose work was this? In the mind of Michael Meyer it was an example of third force activities. // If it was an ANC bomb, my colleague who was the previous witness, came to explain to me they ... ... South Africans living in neighbouring states, it only meant death and destruction. This is the tragic story of Jaquiline Quin, her husband Leon Meyer, also known as Joe, their daughter, Phoenix and a close family Quin. The place, a suburb of Maseru, the time 4 days before Christmas, 1985. // ... The police star for bravery for the brutal slaughter of unarmed and defenceless people. Last month this programme focused on the murder of Leon Meyer and his wife Jackie in Maseru in 1985. This week, Meyer’s sister brought her grief and her frustration to the Truth Commission in Pretoria. ... in the minds of Archbishop Tutu and his team this week. They”d gathered former State Security Council members Pik Botha, Adriaan Vlok, Roelf Meyer and Leon Wessels to get straight answers. Was the State Security Council a shadow cabinet? What were its precise powers? Did it formulate and ... ... in my career, in my short career in the police. // I did as I pleased. I had the power in my hands. It was so obvious that a former Lieutenant Meyer called me to his office and told me that I thought I was a little God. And I felt like a little God. I had that power over people. // As they ... ... of ammunition. It was also Basie Smit that decorated the Vlakplaas death squad when they came back from the operation in Lesotho in which Leon Meyer and Jackie Quin were gunned down in December 1985. What we know of these two men might well only be the tip of the iceberg. When they testify ... On Friday, the 20th of May 1983 a car bomb exploded in front of Air Force Headquarters in central Pretoria. It was a devastating blast. 19 People died and 40 were injured. The ANC claimed responsibility. Shortly before, they had warned the South African government to remove military installations ... Church street, Pretoria 1983. Amanzimtoti, 1985. ANC bombs remind ordinary white South Africans there is war. // The bomb that caused the biggest emotional outcry exploded in Church Street, Pretoria, in the late afternoon of May 20. 1983. 19 People were killed and 219 injured. The ANC claimed ... ‘Maseru Lesotho December 1985’ // Nine people died in this attack. Among the dead was Jackie Quinn whose family testified at the TRC in 1996. // I feel that as long as the people up top who gave the order are exposed, that it’s going to help a lot. If we can find out, it must be somebody in ... |
