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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation ... being one of the most critical features of how apartheid dominated the oppressed in the country. // In November last year the National Literacy Cooperation and other education stakeholders asked the TRC to investigate the past education system. They argue that racist education was a violation ... assembled on the parade ground. And, they caught them totally unaware and literally hundreds of people died on the parade ground. Any large external operation that the South African Defence Force did required political sanction. That meant, that this operation like any other large external ... I received an instruction that Piet Ntuli had to be eliminated because he destabilized the area in KwaNdebele and in reality, furthered the aims of the ANC. // Cronje is not sure where the decision to eliminate Ntuli came from. It could have been the security forces’ counter insurgency unit, or ... June 26, 1986. Shortly after midnight a group of 13 ANC activists launches a hand grenade attack on the house of a policeman on the East Rand. The grenades and the limpet mine explode in their faces. Six activists and two innocent bystanders die. The story has been told by its executioner. // De ... assembled on the parade ground. And, they caught them totally unaware and literally hundreds of people died on the parade ground. Any large external operation that the South African Defence Force did required political sanction. That meant, that this operation like any other large external ... Hello. Welcome to the 63rd edition of the Truth Commission Special Report. On tonight’s programme we look at the brutal racial slays of white people by the PAC’s army APLA during 1993. We talk to victims, survivors, killers and politicians in KwaZulu-Natal and we show you a conversation with ... Three members of the elite unit of the former Ciskei police asked the Committee for amnesty this week for kidnapping and torture of three women. Nomthunzi Msuthwana was one of these women. // The three men who tortured me on that day, it was Thoba, Thompson, Makom. ‘Wesselsdal Farm this week’ // This house as you can see used to belong to Mr. Johnny Barnard Smith. One day we came here in 1993 on the 25th of July. We were very young. We were members of the task force; that is a component part of APLA that helps APLA to attack the farmers and to chase them ... Poverty, repression and police brutality in the 1980s. The townships on the East Rand were seething. Six COSAS leaders died in July in 1985 after being lured into launching an attack with hand grenades, booby trapped by Vlakplaas policeman Joe Mamasela. At one of their funerals Maki Skosana was ... It was an operation that was done by myself entirely in cooperation with the riots unit. There were two operations. There was the cleanup operation before four in the morning and then that evening it was four special constables and myself. // Who gave you the instruction to kill? Was that Major ... ‘Matola Mozambique January 1981’ // The Matola raid was in January 1981, it was a combined operation in a planning sense; it was planned by two senior figures in the security establishment. Jacques Buchner was one from the SAP side and a Major Steijn from the South African Defence Force. They ... Mister Joubert’s position was that had he found out that he was acting bona fide and that the operation was in fact authorized by the police chiefs. // Are you saying to this Commission that all you could do in the circumstances was simply to say this thing should never happen again? // Mister ... Oupa Gqozo came to being and got created by nobody else but by the South African Defence Force, a Military Intelligence undercover operation that fed him information that made him more paranoid than he normally is or was. I mean the man is now so sick mentally, that he can’t even come and give ... General Malan is toying with the truth. Operation Marion was at the heart of the third force, because by third force is meant a secret force operating clandestinely and using methods of terrorism. Daluxolo Luthuli was the leader of 200 Inkatha members trained by the SADF in Caprivi in 1986 as part ... ... where there was Brig Badenhorst and Brig Martin Maritz I think. When Mike Hoare came there he say he come there in connection with the Seychelles operation. So Military Intelligence, these two gentlemen, they were quite abrupt. They said, says who? So Claasen was there, Jimmy Claasen and he ... lost. And this people told him, assured him that they will come and pick him up at the airport. But I’m telling you that was a clear, clear, clear operation, because, a professional operation, because from Sipho Hashe’s home, when he left his home we knew what was going on and when he picked ... Bellingan admitted under cross examination that he could have given the order to shoot to kill but denied that it was a carefully planned ambush. He says the Gugulethu operation was the kind of operation that the police would carry out to pre-empt a bank robbery. ... assassinate Dr Buthelezi. With regard to that particular issue it is true that a unit of the ANC did at some point take a decision to carry out an operation of that kind. When the ANC headquarters found that out it counter mandate that decision and that operation was never carried out. It is ... ... of special tasks. // I was never shown a mission statement for the unit as a whole or an objective for the unit as a whole but it consisted of four operations, all of them relatively similar. The largest being the operation to destabilize UNITA, destabilize Angola, by means of supporting UNITA. ... said in a statement from his lawyer that he was in no way involved in their disappearance or death. But, says a senior military officer, I conducted operations with Niewoudt… // Gideon Niewoudt worked in the operation I was the coordinator of, in ‘86 onwards in the Eastern Cape. Their total ... |
