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VAN DER BERG, Ben

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Was injured when MK operatives from the ‘Dolphin Unit’ detonated a limpet mine at the Security Branch offices in Roodepoort, Transvaal, on 17 August 1984. Five members of the Security Branch and several civilians were injured in the blast. Two MK operatives were granted amnesty (AC/2001/0003).

... The other three were not identified. At the time, Sehlwana was operating as a member of an anti-insurgency unit commanded by Captain Koos van der Berg. He informed Van der Berg of the infiltration plan. According to testimony heard by the Commission, two of the insurgents were planning to bomb ...
... THE SCENES SUPERVISION. ACCORDING TO GENERAL MAGNUS MALAN, THE STATE SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONED ALL STEPS TAKEN UP TO AND INCLUDING THE LIEBENBERG REPORT. THERE IS A CONSIDERABLE VARIANCE BETWEEN THE TRAINING CONTEMPLATED IN PARA 24. C.I, AND II OF THE LIEBENBERG REPORT AND THE ACTUAL ...
... prosecution was made possible through the collusion of the KZP and instruments of the state security forces. 206 In May 1990, Colonel MA van den Berg (MI) compiled a memorandum reporting on a meeting between himself, Colonel ‘Cor’ van Niekerk (also MI) and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi on 31 ...
... who was their commander in Swaziland, had given them that instruction to kill Ben because Ben had basically sold out ‘comrades’. MR VAN DEN BERG: Did you question the instruction? MR MART I N S: No, I did not question the instruction, I could not question it – if you’ll recall, you ...
... Senior Superintendent AJG Erwee [AM4135/96], Mr PTCJ Fourie [AM4137/96], Mr PPF Fuchs [AM4138/96], Mr FCS Swarts [AM4512/96], Mr JP van den Berg [AM4367/96], Mr WJ van der Merwe [AM4380/96] Mr JH van Dyk [AM4370/96] and Mr Josef Venter [AM4381/96]. 334 The operation was launched in ...
... these detainees identified Captain Theunis Jacobus 'Rooi Rus' Swanepoel as one of the perpetrators involved in their interrogation. General van den Berg, head of BOSS at the time, also appears to have also been personally involved in the interrogation of these activists. Reggie Vandeyar described ...
... These documents, the authenticity of which was never challenged, established that senior SADF officers (Lt. Colonel van Niekerk and Colonel van den Berg) met with Dr Buthelezi on 31st October 1989. This was after the SADF had withdrawn from the Caprivi project. Van Tonder summarised this meeting ...
MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI, MR MZ KHUMALO, MR PIETER GROENEWALD, VICE ADMIRAL ANDRIES PUTTER, MR LOUIS BOTHA, MR CORNELIUS VAN NIEKERK AND MR MIKE VAN DEN BERG. Esikhawini hit squad IT IS THE FINDING OF THIS COMMISSION THAT IN 1990, SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE IFP CONSPIRED WITH SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE KZP TO ...
... explained to me when I came back from hospital. The vans were transporting people; childre n w e re dead; houses burning, and I was taken to Tygerberg Hospital. 14. Mrs Gishi’s husband died in hospital and she describes herself as ‘never physically well’ since the shooting. It proved ...
... trainees’ trained by the SADF in support of Inkatha. Several hundred Inkatha supporters were sent for Special Constable training at K o e berg during 1987. One hundred and thirty of these were Caprivi trainees. 65. At the end of 1987, the recruits were summoned back to Ulundi by Mr M Z ...
... because they planned and conceptualised them. 104. In international law this concept has been formulated in various legal instruments. At Nuremberg, Council Control Law No. 10 singled out accessories, consenting participants, those connected with plans to commit crimes, and members of ...
... their commission’. 96. One of the most important statements made in modern history is that made by the prosecution in its summation at Nuremberg in the High Command case: Somewhere, there is unmitigated responsibility for these atrocities. Is it to be borne by the troop? Is it to be ...
... a white shopkeeper, three black women who were found speared to death in a plantation and a black man whose headless body was found floating in the Berg River in Paarl. 197 The Snyman Commission appointed to investigate the Paarl violence highlighted corruption and bad management in the Bantu ...
 
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