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A-Team (OFS)Explanation GEN LE ROUX:: From information reports, of that time I was made aware that the Maponya Group was responsible for various bomb explosions, particularly in public places. Ordereli Maponya later died while he was busy placing an explosive device at the Ster Complex in Sunnyside, Pretoria when the ... MR KOOLE: Chairperson, I saw him that he was present during the interrogation but I'm not able to testify that he took part or which part during the interrogation but he was present in the interrogation team even in the assault. In the period 3 September 1984 - to 16 April 1994 I was part of the Security Branch in Soweto. During this period as a member of the investigating team known as the Terrorist Tracing Unit I was a component head and my function was investigating of security matters. correctly, the team that was responsible for this operation was headed by at that stage you say Capt. Eugene MR BOOYENS: Who would have been the commanding, in command of the investigation or interrogation team? MRS FLOYD: The story that I'll be telling, as you mentioned is a very well known story and for that reason I'll try and be fairly brief about it. However this story was well known to those who wanted to hear it at the time and there were people who didn't want to hear and there's now a younger ... CHAIRPERSON: Welcome to your legal team as well. Before we take your testimony, I am going to ask you just to take the oath. MR ROSSLEE: Well, my brother contacted me and said that the Attorney General's Special Investigation Team was looking for me and that they could not find me, and gave me ... Since that period and even before the public hearings our team of investigators were following up the stories that were told to us, were checking them for accuracy, were checking for other existing records that might in fact prove that those events really did happen as we were told, checking ... Then on September 13th I was taken out of the house. That is throughout August there was a certain comrade by the name of Jacob and another one by the name of A Team. They kept on asking me questions and I kept on relating the story with regard to the job that I was doing at that time. And ... MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, it would not only have been Mr Ras. It was such an operation, it was a team operation, a team effort, it was not only one person who had the information, it would have been discussed in a group. And there were many of the young people that came from some of these areas, and these issues were discussed. In fact the question of the team, because as I mention that one of the things we used to do was to have political discussions, to actually evaluate a lot of things including amongst other ... 17B/17 "and 12th May of the same month. On the 11th, or thereabouts, my husband was to attend a Supreme Court matter, in which he was a respondent. The said MP was the applicant in the matter, and it centred around that my husband had proclaimed publicly that the Member of Parliament was ... MR FALCONER: Mr Chairman, I am not going to suggest for a second they were not acting grossly improperly, but what I am saying is and I think it is common cause, specifically when one has regard to the evidence before the Gross Human Rights Committee, there was a small parcel of an area in ... MR DERBY-LEWIS: Mr Chairman, when we consulted it actually came out that I was not referring to the late Chris Hani as a former commander, I was referring to him as the commander of MK and my legal team then advised me to change it. MR PRETORIUS: Yes, anti-revolutionary task teams. Yes, honourable chairman the anti-revolutionary task team. GEN WEBB: We had to give our full co-operation with the investigation team, namely Gen Badenhorst and Brig Engelbrecht. And just as an aside people might want to know that the President called me in to give me a gentle ear-full about going to the United States for treatment. I do want to point out that I myself would have wanted to receive all of my treatment here, though in consultation with a panel that includes ... The applications of the applicant consists of Addenda A, B and C. As has been stated very thoroughly in the heads of argument Addenda A, B and C consist of the pages as you would have found them and as they are paginated in Volume B pages 1 through to 48. You will note that there is an ... MR BOOYENS: Could you exclude the possibility that some of the other team members could have assaulted him? |
