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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 221 to 240 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 Next Page•Last Page... informed Applicant that the ANC structures in Tembisa had decided that Mr Songo should be eliminated and had appointed Mr Tleane to oversee the operation. A further decision was made that Applicant should be ordered to execute the elimination of Mr Songo. In view of Mr Tleane's ... Mr N Mabusela and Mr M M Mjumbuntqla. This information I got directly from some of the police that were involved in that particular raid. In that operation Clive Brink shot from inside Mr Jombuntqla's house and he claimed, that is the IR, claimed that it was an MK terrorist who did the ... MR CORNELIUS: Did you participate in the operation and did you reconcile yourself with the operation? There was direct military action. We have this here as Operation Palmiet. This operation took place in 1984 during the height of the Vaal rent boycott. This phase gave way to another lasting era from the late part of 1985 until the national peace accord. This phase can be described as a phase ... After having reconnoitered the vicinity, Masango and Joseph Elian Makhura ("Makhura") proceeded to execute the operation. Makhura placed the limpet mine in the dustbin whilst Masango kept a lookout. The limpet mine was set to detonate within 20 -30 minutes. Due to some technical ... intimidation of Morudu was the main objective, everyone of the Applicants foresaw the possibility that someone might be injured or killed during the operation. As it turned out, the 5th Applicant learnt the day after the operation that indeed a young girl, presumably a niece of Morudu, was killed ... ... clear to me that the same methods used in the Police during investigations and interrogations also applied here. It was very clear that the co-operation between the investigating officers who were all former policemen and the Police, that this co-operation was very close and very good. I ... EXAMINATION BY MR VISSER: Mr Steenberg, you are an applicant for amnesty for an operation that was executed across the Swaziland border which we know happened on the 8th of December 1981, is that correct? is coming from. It is not from the people who are seated here, but it is like it is coming from the back rooms. We would really appreciate your co-operation because when we started we said we should make sure that we restore people's dignity ... The detail of the operation was that an explosive device would be placed on a railway line at Mpaka, Swaziland under circumstances which would implicate the ANC in the deed. The idea was not to cause the device to detonate. On the day in question Applicant and a number of his subordinates ... CHAIRPERSON: Can you just tell me, who was in command of this operation? MR MTHWANA: No, listen. I know that there was a vigilante group in operation, but I do not know how Zwe was killed because at the time I was in prison. "All the operations that Rafiq undertook and that are referred to in his statement, were discussed at length with me prior to his embarking thereon. Rafiq reported back to me after each operation, with the exception of the CR Swart Square explosion. I in turn reported to Rashid. MS LOONAT: Please bear with me one moment. Mr Chunene, on page 10 of the Bundle, point 3, you say that, the last line of point 3 that you were not the Commander, but you were the one who planned the operation, is that correct? In this incident the applicants attacked the policeman as part of the revival of the earlier operation during 1989 to remove the police from the township in an attempt to consolidate the renewed peace process with the Ama-Afrika vigilantes. The perception was that the police were intentionally ... MR DU TOIT: Chairperson, if the person escaped from the detention of members in the Witwatersrand we would write a separate report or it would happen in co-operation with the Eastern Transvaal and then I wouldn’t visit the scene but it would be another senior officer from that specific department. ... orders were explicitly to aim the shots at such a height that no risk would be posed to life or limb inside the house. The intention of the operation as well as Applicant's orders were clearly not to kill or harm any of the occupants of the house. The shots fired by Applicant were ... We are also satisfied that the Second Applicant acted as he did as a result of orders received and that Ninth Applicant in failing to make any statement did so in what he believed to be in the interests of his unit which had carried out what he believed was a legitimate operation. ... life and work of church and theological training of our churches. We need to say this, Chairperson, because many mission stations were used as operation points for the military, for planning, for meetings of the generals of the SADF. We have many stories about this that can be told, ... MR JANSEN: Something else which needs to be placed in context, you say, referring to the function which Minister Vlok attended, that he congratulated you on the operation of Cosatu House. Cosatu House, was it mentioned by name by the minister? |
