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SMIT, AJAge Description This episode gives some background to two former South African Police generals, Basie Smit and Krappies Engelbrecht ? implicated in incidents of gun running, fraud, bombings, kidnappings, torture and murder ? subpoenaed to testify before the TRC. Segments on the HRV Committee hearings held in the ... ... told Eugene de Kock that he should ‘look after himself’ when De Kock was retrenched in 1993. But Engelbrecht also stole thousands, as did Basie Smit. Smit drew personally from the police secret funds but also ordered the funding of the initial 100 rifles for the IFP. Later, he approved the ... ... on their own. Others had to be encouraged to do so. Almost two and a half years after the Goldstone Commission found evidence that general Basie Smit and general Krappies Engelbrecht were involved in supplying arms to Inkatha, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission subpoenaed them to ... responsibility, and later a youth Andrew Zondo was arrested, charged and hanged for the offence. Five people died in the blast, among them Cornelius Smit. He was eight years old. At the time his father shocked many white South Africans by what he said. // I told the newspapers that I thought my ... The AK47 was never put to use. Because of a driver’s slowness at the exit point the assassins lost their target. This is the man who passed on the instruction, Capt Flip Loodts, who was then Hechter’s immediate superior. Loodts claimed that the order came directly from general Basie Smit. I want to say categorically I’m not involved, I’ve never been involved. As I’ve put it to Judge Goldstone, not today, not tomorrow, not in a million years I was involved. The most obvious generals De Klerk would have asked about Vlakplaas are Generals Basie Smit, Krappies Engelbrecht, Johan van der Merwe, Nick van Rensburg and Johan le Roux. We have learned from the affidavits of several Vlakplaas men that General Basie Smit was a regular visitor to Vlakplaas. They ... In 1988 General Smit came up with a second bizarre execution. // Then Brigadier Smit, he gave instructions to myself and warrant officer Paul van Vuuren calling us to his office and being aware of our covert operations called us to his office and gave us instructions to plant a quantity of mandrax ... For record purposes my name is LGL Visser… // I only act for Gen Smit so I can only speak on his behalf… // So presently we act for 81 applicants… // Want to place this simply on record…want to place on record now …. I want to place that on record now… but what I want to do is I want to ... ... forty murders and are expected to directly implicate former president PW Botha, former police minister Louis Le Grange and Generals such as Basie Smit and Johan van der Merwe. Van der Merwe will testify on their behalf. Apart from high profile murder cases like the Pebco Three and Fabian ... ... yesterday. // The 36 page interim report contained allegations involving top police officials including deputy police commissioner Lt-Gen Basie Smit, CID Chief Lt-Gen Johan le Roux and head of the police counter intelligence division, Maj-Genl Krappies Engelbrecht. They and the other police ... Here is the place which they then later built where the ministers and Basie Smit and them braaid, had their Chivas Regal whiskey, congratulated the guys where the ‘potjiekos’ was made, you can see big fireplaces. If you have all the liquor and the meat that was absorbed here you can open a ... ... from ordinary people telling their sad stories to perpetrators giving their version of the past. Two weeks from now, two police generals, Basie Smit and Krappies Engelbrecht will appear at a closed hearing of the Truth Commission. They were subpoenaed this ... Will the information those files contain solve the many mysteries that remain. Will we ever know who killed Robert Smit, who shot down Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski or Ric Turner? Will we learn about the forces responsible for the brutal train violence that claimed hundreds of lives, or township ... ... We caught up with him and argued and the deceased was being assaulted. I started to assault him with the fist, where after he fell and mister Smit started to kick him and jump on him. // No there was no racial hatred involved because I did not know the person. It was on instruction of the ... ... the men were supported by former commissioners Johan van der Merwe, Johan Coetzee and 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 ... |
