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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation MR MNQANDI: So you cannot tell us how many members were altogether involved in this operation? MS MTANGA: Coming to the incident of the 14th September 1992, can you tell the Committee when and how did you plan that operation? When did you think of carrying it out and how did you plan how you were going to go about it? MR FIHLA: If I recall, I got to know aboutthis operation in 1993 when a report on our casualties was given by the thenDirector of Operations, Comrade Lethlapa Mpahlela. Because we all the timehad to look at the operations to look if definitely they fell within the ambitand the mandate of the ... MR HATTINGH: Chairperson, very briefly, it was explained to me that weaponry would be required for an operation on the East Rand, but full details were not provided. However, handgrenades and a limpet mine would be involved and if possible the detonators of he handgrenades and the limpet mine had ... "I confirm that on the day of the operation, I travelled from Welkom to Wesselsbron, with Sohane, the driver, Sibande and Sebinzile on the instruction of Abel Khotle. He instructed us to meet Bhani in Wesselsbron and he will brief us about the operation to take place." before the committee. He confirmed that he was the applicant's superior in the APLA hierarchy and that he instructed the applicant to carry out the operation at the fruit shop. He explained that he gave the instruction for the operation to be carried out notwithstanding the fact that the first ... ... the only knowledge he had, related to the firearms. The information about Mr de Villiers was conveyed to the late Xolani who was the head of the operation and the second applicant participated in the operation in the bona fide belief that the intention was to obtain ... "During or about 1986, the house of a certain Jafta family in Willowvale, was burnt by the Security Police. This was an operation by members of the Transkeian Defence Force, under the command of Lieut Mandela, Transkei Anti-Riot Unit, East London Security Branch, under the command of Capt de Lange ... He said he was ordered to carry out the operation by his commander whom he only knew by his code name Thanduxolo. ... his offer and that event co-incided with the statement from ANC in exile saying that it will now train ANC cadres inside the country and duty operation, we were prepared to liberate our country by all means necessary. So through Valley who was the local co-ordinator, these guys came, Mike, ... ... me, I told him what had happened the previous day and he checked my eyes, and said that I had to be operated upon. I signed consent to undergo an operation. I was supposed to sign a consent but I refused and asked them to call my mother and when she came she also had the hope that I would get ... MR BIZOS: Aren’t you really contrasting your attitude in relation to co-operation between what you were prepared to tell the SAP and what you were not prepared to tell these foreigners? MR VAN WYK: There is a history since 1994 in respect of your co-operation with the police and the investigation that there was several non-disclosures, do you concede that? MR CORNELIUS: I put it to you that Mr van Heerden was a Constable two months stationed there and that he was an insignificant little figure against the other chief officials who were running the operation. MS COLERIDGE: And can you inform us, what was your first operation that Mr Slang van Zyl required you to do for him? ... unit decided to attack the complex in order to demonstrate opposition to these elections. Tlatsi was ordered by Mazibuko to take charge of the operation. On the day in question, Mazibuko had to write examinations in KwaThema, but visited the vicinity of the offices on his way to the ... MR CORNELIUS: Did you or any of the other members consume liquor before the operation was launched? ... therefore they are going to help us to conquer the ANC. We were told that we will be given different kinds of firearms as soon as we start our operation. Briefly I will say the aim was that we should use these arms to conquer the ANC and the ... On 23rd September 1991 he received instructions from his Regional Commander, one Mandla, to execute an operation to fund raise for APLA which was experiencing financial problems. Mandla informed him that he had identified Exmego Engineering Company at Lindsay Road, Korsten, Port Elizabeth as the ... operation and I agree with it especially with regard to the role fulfilled by myself. |
