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VENTER, (first name not given)Age Description ... blown to pieces at the Phoenix Railway Station on 18 November 1988. The latest confessions of five former security policemen (Jack Cronje, Roelf Venter, Jacques Hechter, Wouter Mentz and Paul van Vuuren) at the Amnesty Committee hearings in Cape Town (11 to 13 March) includes evidence on the ... of command in incidents like ?Operation Zero Zero? and the bombing of Khotso house. One of five former senior policemen applying for amnesty, Roelf Venter, delivered his testimony this week but provided no new information on the killing of the Pebco Three. ... ... held in Johannesburg (21 to 23, 28 October to 1 November) where former security policemen Paul van Vuuren, Jacques Hechter, Jack Cronje, Roelf Venter and Wouter Mentz are applying for amnesty for more than 40 incidents. Cases covered in this week?s hearings are the torture and murder of ... ... reports on Jacques Hechter and Joe Mamasela?s claims that current high profile politicians were on Vlakplaas? payroll and the Commission?s decision not to make the names public. The final segment covers the R & R Committee workshop on symbolic reparation held in East London this week. The segment ... This episode focuses on the amnesty applications of five former security policemen: Jack Cronje, Roelf Venter, Jacques Hechter, Wouter Mentz and Paul van Vuuren, who delivered their testimonies to the Amnesty Committee in Pretoria (24 February to 7 March). Among the cases covered this week are the ... There were high expectations that the disappearance of the three Port Elizabeth activists known as the Pebco three would finally be resolved this week. It did not happen. Col Roelf Venter, a former Vlakplaas officer only admitted to being part of the abduction of the men. Black policemen at Vlakplaas were called askaris, they did most of the killing for Eugene de Kock, yet their lives were worth nothing and they were executed as easily as they killed opponents of the apartheid government. // Talk about a dog that feeds on its puppies; that was De Kock. He fed on his ... Amnesty applicant Roelf Venter and the deaths of the Pebco three Hello, can I speak to Casper Venter? // Mister Venter is not here at the moment can I ask him to call you back? // Under the present law those who committed political crimes during apartheid are protected by a blanket amnesty. The ANC is prepared to have an amnesty only as long as all crimes are ... ... du Plessis, Johan van Zyl, Gideon Niewoudt and Gerhardus Lotz are asking for amnesty for the murder of the Pebco Three. Vlakplaas operatives Roelf Venter, Gert Beeslaar, Kimpani Mogoai and Johannes Koole are applying for their ... Counsellor Eddy Venter also has other concerns. Whose going to deck that cost, the tax payer? Again, another tax burden on us. // I don’t know what is the price of freedom, justice. I think there is no price for that. // Ultimately the real price that is important is the human rights price; that ... The aim of the operation was to question them, to get information from them and to remove them from the area and to neutralize their involvement. Two men dominated this week’s amnesty hearing into the 1985 murders of the Port Elizabeth leaders known as the Pebco Three. The Centenary Hall in New Brighton was cramped daily by residents and activists who came to hear security policemen Gideon Niewoudt and Vlakplaas askari Joe Mamasela speak ... As far as I’m concerned there was complicity on my part in their removal and abduction, but I was not involved in their murder, I don’t know who killed them, how they were killed and what happened to the bodies. But I’m asking that I be excused for murder because I was the first person who ... ... prominence. If one looks back at six months of testimony by victims a few clear trends emerge. The first is that the brutalities of apartheid were not confined to cities and big townships. It reached into every village and location. De Aar, Toyandu, Brandfort, Colesburg, Mtubatuba, Aliwal-North, ... ... time. As I walked towards that door there, as I opened the door a teargas canister hit that door and so I had to push back. It was that time that I noticed that on this side there was also two caspirs. Those that belonged to the South African National Defence Force. And there were caspirs now ... ... in the audience pricked up when Mortimer started talking about special forces. These included the 5 reconnaissance regiments and one of the most notorious organisations in the apartheid state [the Civil Cooperation Bureau]. ... ... commander and Northern Transvaal security police chief Brigadier Jack Cronje, Captain Jacques Hechter, Captain Wouter Mentz and Colonel Roelf Venter, all former Vlakplaas operatives and Warrant Officer Paul van Vuuren. They will give evidence about more than forty murders and are expected ... the men had left the country. More lies. The abduction of the Pebco Three was a Vlakplaas job. Joe Mamasela was there, following the orders of Roelf Venter who told us about his involvement last ... ... Commission lifted the veil on several unspeakable and sometimes bizarre acts of cruelty and cold blooded murder. And in the process the profile of another ruthless mass murderer is emerging, Vlakplaas warrant officer Joe Mamasela. But with the successes for justice and truth come uncomfortable ... |
