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KoevoetExplanation MR HUGO: In 1979, that is when Operation Koevoet commenced? CHAIRPERSON: And as part of this operation, you used these people from Koevoet - well, they were called something else? ... you joined the security police at Oshakati and you worked with the Ovambo Force and January 1979 you then became one of the founding members of the Koevoet Unit under leader of Colonel Hans Dreyer and is it correct that during this time that you then participated in hundreds of contacts in SWAPO. ... MR McCARTER: In 1980 I joined Koevoet in Namibia. MR HATTINGH: You were also a member of Koevoet in the former South West Africa, now Namibia? MR VALLY: Director Hesslinga, you were a member of Koevoet, is that correct? MR HOLTZHAUSEN: Yes, I was a Koevoet member. If we can return throughout history and look at your service in Koevoet, in the former South West Africa, is it correct that you arrived there in 1980? application is concerned. I could perhaps ask you a couple of questions on this point, and that would be the following. Did you at some point join Koevoet while you were in South West ... CHAIRPERSON: Mr Coetzee, when Bambo and the others were with Koevoet, in what capacity were they there? Could I just say that I'm now going to deal with Mr de Kock's experiences in Rhodesia in Koevoet and that is also just to sketch a bit of background. I won't deal with it in any depth. MR HATTINGH: And then you also deal briefly with the fact that while you were still the Commander of Koevoet in Namibia, you became involved in the London bombing incident, is that correct? ADV GCABASHE: Can I just ask. But you see the members who came were chaps whom you knew from your Koevoet days, yes? In this period of June 1992, we got a report that Hernus Kriel called a group that was called Koevoet gang, and this gang he called it to come to Cape Town in order to be used in destroying the SDU's. of Koevoet, the police counter-insurgency unit, during the Namibian Bush war. ... qualify this by saying that Col Potgieter and I have a good understanding, we've always had it and it was a service rendered, we served together at Koevoet where he was in charge of previous SWAPO terrorists and their interrogation and the analysis thereof. He is a very good analyst of ... MR ROSSOUW: That's correct. In order to determine in which manner you reached consensus about this I would like to ask you, when you were in Koevoet in the early eighties in Namibia was Mr Potgieter also there? Did you perform service there together? MR ROSSOUW: That's correct. In order to determine in which manner you reached consensus about this I would like to ask you, when you were in Koevoet in the early eighties in Namibia was Mr Potgieter also there? Did you perform service there together? ... training, advanced training and also served and was subjected to or underwent further counter-insurgency training in South West Africa with the Koevoet ... ... attacking the community inside the township are professional people and they have the knowledge of what they are doing. By then SANDF had deployed Koevoet, Battalion 32, inside the township and as I said there was an attack which took two days. I participated when I realised that during the ... |
