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Unrest Investigation UnitExplanation The next unit within the police that deserves special mention is that of the Murder & Robbery Unit and the Unrest Crimes Unit. The network of independent monitors has for some time had suspicions regarding the violence on the lower South Coast. The continuing killing of people despite the ... MR VISSER: Who was your Commander in the Investigation Unit for Unrest? MR OOSTHUIZEN: Chairperson, I was attached to a Special Investigative Unit that had been operated from headquarters. We worked countrywide. Our investigations were directly involved with the investigation into unrest as well as murders countrywide at that stage. We worked throughout the country and at all places in the country where there were unrest, this is where we concentrated. We were assisting the local Investigation Teams with their investigations. We worked with the uniform unit, Unit 19, that is today known as a Stabilising Unit, Internal ... GEN J J VIKTOR: Johannes Jacobus Viktor, that is correct Chairman. He was the commanding officer of the Investigative Unit at Mamelodi which was involved in the investigation of instances of unrest or rioting. He was attached at the Detective Branch, not attached to the Security Branch. I would like to stress again. This unit was deployed nationally, it would make no sense to say that they as an Investigative Unit, would go into an unrest politically sensitive area where offences were committed and now conduct an investigation without having the opportunity to make use of the ... Mr Hechter, there are just a number of aspects that I want to put to you for your comment. Mr Viktor tells me that during the period of February to May 1986 he was the Commander of the Mamelodi Unrest Investigation Unit, can you recall this or can you comment on that? Ntuli. And at that time there were talks for the independence of Kwandebele. And hence this unrest in Kwandebele, they would never have been able to obtain their independence. According to Brig Cronje in Piet's case it was repeatedly discussed at central information level which constituted the ... ... and General Joubert was at that time in 1990, was in fact the Head of the Special Investigation Unit who investigated, whose team investigated unrest related incidents, and only in that sense was he ... General Joubert not anybody else was involved in Bopape and in fact no evidence was ... ... quagmire he is in, accepts Johannes Jacobus Viktor's (Jnr) evidence that at the relevant time he (Viktor) was the commander of the Mamelodi unrest Investigation Unit and that due to the nature of such investigations he was working very closely with Hechter's unit, hence on the day he ... as if the incident took place under these circumstances. It appears from the Official Records that a Sergeant Wilfred Gunter - [indistinct] of the Unrest Unit was - of the Riot Unit - Riot Squad was working at Nyanga Police Station at the time and he shot your brother Norman Peterson. ... |
