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NEL, Anton

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A corporal in the South African Air Force (SAAF) who was killed when MK operatives detonated an explosive in a car outside the SAAF headquarters in Church Street, Pretoria, on 20 May 1983. Twenty one people were killed and two hundred and seventeen were 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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398 Dawid Fourie was also responsible for region 4 (Angola, Zambia and Tanzania), taking it over in 1988 from Meerholtz. Christo Nel handled the intelligence function while Ian Strange (aka Rodney) was also involved in this region. In terms of region 5 (European and International), Joseph ...
... NDEBELE, Sibusiso NDEBELE, Thokozani Brian NDEBELE, Thomas NDELU, Khanyisile NDELU, Mbandla NDELU, Mhlushekelwa NDELU, Musawenkosi William NDELU, Nellie Nakekile NDELU, Robert Bhoyi NDEMBU, Andile NDESI, Connie Khunjuzwa NDESI, Sithembele Rodwell NDESI, Sithembiso NDEVU, Daniel NDEVU, Fundile ...
... of CCB members to South West Africa. Testimony in regard to the CCB operation was given to the Commission by the CCB’s intelligence head, Colonel Christoffel Nel. He told the Commission: Prior to the election in Namibia all the regions [of the CCB] were told to do something there. No ...
147 The evidence of the CCB’s intelligence head, Christoffel Nel, is regarded by the Commission as important corroborating evidence of the CCB’s role. 148 It is well established that the CCB was set up as a covert grouping with the purpose, among others, of killing political opponents. So, ...
... through the night to report directly to police commissioner Johan Coetzee. At a 05h30 meeting at Coetzee’s home, at which Willem Schoon and Colonels Schalk Jan Visser (head of the Eastern Transvaal Security Branch) and Tiekie de Jager of the SIU were also present, a report was given to ...
tactical information with regard to the former liberation movements in neighbouring countries. This included detail on facilities, movement of personnel, training camps, infiltrations and planned military operations. TREWITS, however, had no mandate to get involved in the identification and ...
... Heystek [AM4145/97] applied for amnesty in respect of the abduction and torture of Mr Peter Moleke Lengene in Soweto during 1982. Lieutenant-Colonel Anton Pretorius [AM4389/96] and Lieutenant-Colonel Willem Helm ‘Timol’ Coetzee [AM4032/96] also applied for amnesty for the abduction and ...
Chris Deetleefs (Eastern Transvaal), Captain Van Jaarsveld and/or Captain Loots and later Captain Roelof Venter (Northern Transvaal), Lietuenant Colonel Anton Pretorius of the Soweto Intelligence Unit and Daan du Plessis from NIS. 495 In addition to formal TREWITS meetings, those who attended ...
... Stephanus Adriaan Oosthuizen [AM3760/96]; PJ Cornelius Loots [AM5462/97]; Jacques Hechter [AM2776/96]; Christo Nel [AM6609/97]; Lieutenant Colonel Antonie Heystek [AM4145/97]; Colonel Anton Pretorius [AM4389/96]; Helm ‘Timol’ Coetzee [AM4032/96]; Johannes Jacobus Strijdom [AM5464/97]; ...
Some of the better known events referred to in the hearing included the ambush and killing of the ‘Guguletu Seven’, the shoot-out and killing of Anton Fransch in Athlone and the shooting of Yvette Otto in Valhalla Park. The hearing also drew attention to the death of Looksmart Ngudle, the ...
... in Gaborone, Botswana was attacked in an assassination attempt. General Albertus Steyn, Brigadiers W Loots [AM4149/96/] and Willem Schoon and Colonel Philip Rudolf Crause [AM4124/96] applied for amnesty for this operation. In his application, Steyn stated that Serache was suspected of ...
... and organisations were responsible for these acts. The mandate was extended to include an investigation into and report on the allegation that one Anton Lubowski was a paid agent of the SADF: Military Intelligence Section. Date of Report: September 1990 Chair: HARMS, L.T.C. Ref: RP 108-90 (A); ...
Pre-election events in 1989 and the assassination of Anton Lubowski 126 The New York Accords signed on 22 December 1988 set in motion the implementation of UN Resolution 435 adopted ten years earlier. Actual implementation by a United Nations Transitional Assistance Group (UNTAG) was set to ...
442 In an amnesty application, a member of the Soweto Security Branch, Colonel Lodewyk de Jager, said that his unit was invited to an information-sharing and planning meeting for the raid at Special Forces headquarters. He stated that his unit had in the past attended similar sessions on ...
... Breweries (SAB), the Anglo American Corporation, Old Mutual and Tongaat-Hulett; c corporate executives such as Mike Rosholt of Barlow Rand and Anton Rupert of Rembrandt International. 8 These opposing arguments mirror a long-standing debate over the relationship between apartheid and ...
... Phyllis Nontutuzelo FANTI, Mzwandile Wilson FARISANI, Tshenuwani Simon FATMAN, Eric Mxolisi FATYELA, Fuzile FATYELA, Richard Masinda FAZZIE, Mzwanele FEBANA, Cikizwa Ntsiki Gladys FENI, Andile Elvis FENI, Angelina Zanyiwe FENI, Mbophele Petrus FERGUSON, Andrew Henry Douglas FERHELST, Muhammad ...
... first death in 1985 was that of Mr Adri ‘Aaron’ Faas [CT03207, CT00434] on the day of the Pollsmoor march. Faas was shot dead by Lieutenant Colonel WH Oosthuizen who used his private firearm. Police officer Captain Clayton, who was on duty that night, described events before the shooting to ...
... in. They were given weapons and grenades and went to home of squatter leader Yamile claiming to be commanders from exile. They opened a concealed panel in the minibus, showing their weapons. Yamile believed the askaris and introduced them to Christopher ‘Rasta’ Piet. They soon had the core of ...
... Mabilo Mr Peter Lathli Mabilo [CT04603] was shot dead on 21 August 1987 in Kimberley. The police (Unrest Unit together with Security Branch personnel) surrounded him in the house early in the morning. When he came out he allegedly threw something at them which they believed to be a grenade. ...
... from trying to defend themselves against attacks by the gang. Four of the casualties were identified as Mr Duma Fakude (35) [JB02319/01ERTEM], Mr Anton Chauke (52), Mr Absolom Mayo (35) and a person identified as ‘Oupa’ (37). The injured included Mr Eave Cefane (38), Ms Moffat Makaza, Mrs ...
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