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VAN WYK, LeonAge Description ... of combating resistance. This shift was conceded by numerous high-ranking security force members, including former police commissioner Johan van der Merwe (see above quotation). 92 At the Commission’s hearings on the SSC, senior politicians and some senior military and ... ... ‘Pik’ Botha submitted responses to the Commission’s questions that were rich in detail, while former Ministers Roelf Meyer and Leon Wessels frankly acknowledged the wrongs of the former ruling party’s past. Mr Wessels cast doubt on the argument by members of the former ... ... South West Africa during which a security guard was killed. Arrested soon afterwards, the three escaped back to South Africa when the police van in which they were travelling was ambushed by two white men (known to the Commission only by the pseudonyms of ‘Archer’ and ... ... Approximately ten operatives participated in the ambush, including two askaris. Of the operatives, those who applied for amnesty were Sergeant Leon Flores [AM4361/96], De Kock and Captains Riaan Bellingan [AM5283/97] and Petrus Snyders [AM5286/97]. 375 According to De Kock, the operation ... occupied by Mr Joe Gqabi when he was killed five years earlier. 451 A feature of this raid is that Zimbabwean security forces appear to have had advance warning of it and the three occupants of the house (a South African couple and a Zimbabwean) were fetched from the house by security force ... ... BARON, Roseline BARROW, Bradley BARTLETT, Mogamat Nurudien BARTON, James Allan Petros BAS, Samuel BASA, Mhlangabezi BASE, Charlie BASE, Shoni BASE, Vanish BASHE, Monwabisi Livingstone BASI, Khanyisile BASI, Mdedelwa BASI, Michael Mandlenkosi BASI, Mkhanyiselwa BASOPU, Mike BASSON, Maria BASSON, ... ... even go to work because of this. 83 Even families where activists had gone into exile were not free from harassment by the security forces. Mr Leon Meyer was an MK activist who was killed in Lesotho in a South African Defence Force (SADF) cross-border raid in 1985. At the Mdantsane hearing, ... ... statements alleging torture, few amnesty applications were received specifically for torture. Those received were f rom applicants Andries Johannes van Heerden [AM3763/96]; Willem Johannes Momberg [AM4159/96]; Stephanus Adriaan Oosthuizen [AM3760/96]; PJ Cornelius Loots [AM5462/97]; Jacques ... |