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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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... after which his body was placed on a wood fire and burnt until morning. Nokuthula Simelane 287 Acccording to amnesty applicant Lieutenant-Colonel Anton Pretorius [AM4389/96], the Soweto Intelligence Unit (SIU) had in 1983 succeeded in penetrating and infiltrating MK structures in Swaziland. ...
... to ANC members in 1986 and 1987. According to amnesty applicant Izak Daniel Bosch [AM3765/96], these attacks were aimed at protecting the lives of Nelspruit Security Branch police informants. Members of Vlakplaas petrol-bombed houses belonging to ‘comrades’, targets being provided by the ...
... abduction, for which they have applied for amnesty, were SIU members Captain Willem ‘Timol’ Coetzee, Captain Anton Pretorius and Lieutenant Colonel Antonie Heystek, who was in charge of the operation. 346 On 14 April 1984, four Swaziland-based members of MK’s ‘Special Operations’ unit ...
... include: ‘Sakkie’ Crafford, Brigadier JH Cronjé, Captain J Hechter and Captain PJ Janse van Vuuren. The Mofolo Three 419 Lieutenant Colonel Anton Pretorius [AM4389/96], askaris Moleke Peter ‘Frank’ Lengene [AM4033/96], Manuel Olifant [AM4032/96], Mr Sarel Petrus Nienaber ...
... Forces), General Griebenauw (Border regional head of the security police), General Zondwa Mtirara (head of the TDF), Vice-Admiral Dries Putter, Colonel Reg Deyzel (the officer commanding of Group Eight in East London), a former Transkei Minister of Defence and Dr Tertius Delport (then at the ...
... been a deliberate plot by IR/CIS to lure Sebe and Guzana back to Ciskei on the pretext of a “coup attempt”. The inquest found that IR/CIS chief Anton Nieuwoudt worked together with Gqozo “in all the planning stages of the plot to eliminate the threat posed by Sebe and Guzana” and that ...
... working in Ciskei, Nieuwoudt was acting on the SADF’s instructions and that IR/CIS was in fact an SADF ME front. 153 IR-CIS recruited its personnel from the Ciskei Defence Force, from Gqozo’s bodyguards, from the Ciskei security police, from the Transkei security police and from former CCB ...
... withheld to protect his identity), former Military Intelligence (MI) officer; Major Craig Williamson, former South African security force spy; Mr Anton Uys, former security police officer who headed the South African Police (SAP) investigation immediately after the crash; “James” (real ...
... bombing in 1983. The plan to kill him was developed at a meeting attended by amnesty applicants Brigadiers Loots and Jack Cronje, as well as Colonel PR Crause, an agent by the name of McKenzie and a senior Special Forces commander who has not applied for amnesty. It was then presented to ...
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