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Gaborone car bombExplanation ... Security Branch and not from the SADF itself. Nat Serache 136. On 13 February 1985, a Special Forces team attacked the house of Mr Nat Serache in Gaborone, Botswana. According to applicants, MK members infiltrating South Africa used Mr Serache’s home as a transit facility. Several days before ... ... towards civilian casualties. Two days before the C o n f e rence, South African security forces launched across - border raid on residences in Gaborone in Botswana, killing twelve people.1 2 4 A c c o rding to the ANC, none of the casualties were MK operatives. This attack on what the ANC ... ... to Francistown, where he was arrested by MK security and taken to Lusaka. 276 Unaware that the vehicle was carrying a bomb, MK returned it to Gaborone where it was parked outside the home of a Batswana family sympathetic to the ANC. That night it exploded. According to both the ANC and the ... ... FOR SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO KILL HIM IN LESOTHO IN THE EARLY 1980S. 239 On 26 November 1981, Dirk Coetzee led a team in an attack on a house in Gaborone, Botswana occupied by two ANC activists, Ms Joyce Dipale and Mr Tieho Masinga (aka Rola). The house was believed by the security police to ... ... amount for this killing and for that of an unnamed and unknown ANC member he claimed to have killed “on a road between Plumtree in Zimbabwe and Gaborone in Botswana”. THE COMMISSION CAN MAKE NO FINDING ON THE KILLING OF MR SADHAN NAIDOO AND MR MOSS MTHUNZI DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE AMNESTY ... ... WAS KILLED BY UNKNOWN PERSONS IN SWAZILAND ON AN UNKNOWN DATE IN 1984. 253 In early 1985, the house of a South African exile, Mr Nat Serache, in Gaborone, Botswana was attacked in an assassination attempt. General Albertus Steyn, Brigadiers W Loots [AM4149/96/] and Willem Schoon and Colonel ... ... Brits was accompanied by seven other Vlakplaas members in this operation. 492 The Commission has uncorroborated information of an attack in Gaborone in February 1985 in which two exiled South African journalists escaped injury when their home was bombed; of the killing of an unnamed South ... ... of cross-border operations had been authorised by the state, and General Coetzee testified to involvement in the 1982 Maseru raid and the 1985 Gaborone raid. 328. Applicants gave further evidence of high-level political authorisation at a meeting of the senior national and divisional ... ... an “ANC planning facility” in Maputo, Mozambique, on 17 October 1983; e Operation Plecksy: an attack on alleged ANC residences and offices in Gaborone, Botswana on 14 June 1985; f Operation Leo: co-ordinated SAAF and Special Forces attacks on alleged ANC facilities in Botswana, Zimbabwe ... |