askari

MR NYATHIKAZI: One that I was aware of as being a political opponent was Zweli who to me was similar to an askari.

CHAIRPERSON: Was this true with every askari you had at Vlakplaas, Mr de Kock? They had betrayed you once and now they had turned?

ADV LAMEY: Mr du Plessis you said earlier that it wasn't much importance for the Vlakplaas members, I now refer to the Askaris whom I represent and I have to just correct myself, it's one Askari and one permanent member, Johannes Koole, of Vlakplaas the Askari whom I represent is Mr Mogoai, who ...

... stage. Early in 1982 he was busy with investigation work and the finding of terrorists in the Soweto region. He received information from a new Askari who handed himself over to the police after he received training ...

MR LOTZ: After he had returned two other people, Faku, Shepherd who was an Askari and Duka were in the vehicle ...[intervention]

CHAIRPERSON: Yes, I think maybe we should clarify that. I think you are right, it seems to me on the papers that there was a Black member of the security branch who would normally not be regarded as an Askari.

MR BEESLAAR: No it is not really correct, it would be an askari or as I have already stated, a returning terrorist who had been rehabilitated, because an informer was something quite different.

MR VISSER: And that would be as an Askari?

... any more".  At no state was he present during the operation.  He was, however, aware that the person would be killed if not recruited as an ...

MR MAMASELA: The same thing that happened to my colleague and my friend and my fellow Askari, Brian Mulunga, would have happened exactly to me because we were involved in the Harmse Commission together and he was killed for attempting to expose those lies.

MR ROSSOUW: And that was your duty as a so-called askari at Vlakplaas, to identify other MK members and to try and recruit them.

MR MOSIANE: Chairperson at that time I was an askari. I was under the control of the South African Police Services, under C1 Unit, which was in Head Quarters.

MR HATTINGH: Yes, but whoever had abducted him, I think there may have been one askari involved, let's leave it at that, the people who abducted him, had not disguised themselves?

MR HATTINGH: Was he a police member or a so called Askari?

... me. We were in the epicentre of the Harms Commission and the earthquakes that followed. And to inform you, we also eliminated Brian Ngqulunga, an askari from Vlakplaas, because it seemed as if he wanted to walk over to the ANC's side. And in this case it was about the protection of the members ...

"... and I, through Duiwel, had hung an askari and he died."

MR HUGO: Did Mr De Kock at any stage indicate an Askari or

MR HATTINGH: Indeed, yes Mr Chairman. Mr de Kock, the deceased, Mr Brian Ngqulunga, was initially an askari who was connected to Vlakplaas, is that correct?

... 3, on page 2 of Exhibit M, that during 1989, Col de Kock informed you that an operation was being planned in Swaziland and that the plan was for an askari from Vlakplaas, whose name you can no longer recall, to make contact with persons in Swaziland. Is that ...

MR DE KOCK: Yes, I think he was an askari, if I think about it now. That is why there wouldn't be a record about him.