Vlakplaas

MR LAMEY: Mr Mogoai, is it correct that you were a member -you became a member of the Security Branch specifically stationed at Vlakplaas since approximately 1980?

... at the Oshoek border post with Maj-Gen Stadler and Brig Schoon, as well as Senior Superintendent Visser and W/O Greyling, as well as members of the Vlakplaas unit and Col Eugene de Kock. During this time, Malaza was taken over the border to Swaziland, so that his handler could be ...

... we suggest that you give him R50 000 for it, and R50 000 would then be approved and the money would then instead be divided amongst the members of Vlakplaas, as it so happened in some instances. I am only using this as an example Mr Chairman. May I refer you in this regard to that part of the ...

MR HATTINGH: Now you were a policeman attached to Unit C1 at Vlakplaas, is that correct?

MR HUGO: And just for the sake of completion, you also request that the supplementary submission regarding your background and political convictions and motivations, as well as your supplementary affidavit regarding Vlakplaas, be regarded as incorporated with your current application.

succession in possession of all the other persons there. I know that Mr Labuschagne was there. Mr Greyling was also there. The other persons from Vlakplaas and other persons I cannot recall precisely all the persons who were there and I cannot recall their precise positions ...

MR VAN DYK: Security Head Office Pretoria and Vlakplaas.

MR BOSCH: The camera was purchased by the Police, we used it at Vlakplaas. It wasn't specifically purchased for this particular operation, we had it beforehand.

... involvement in the infiltration of ANC into the Northern Natal platteland, the caching of arms and planned attacks.  De Kock, as head of Vlakplaas at the time, had knowledge of these activities from security reports emanating from Northern Natal and Eastern Transvaal and had ...

MR MBELO: No, I mean I was not aware that I was going to join Vlakplaas. I thought that I was going to join headquarters, Security Branch.

... affidavit regarding your background, your political motivations and considerations and a further affidavit which was filed by you regarding Vlakplaas, its establishment and the purposes, or the objectives that Vlakplaas sought to achieve during the struggle of the ...

MR DE KOCK: Yes, it was Geoffrey Bosigo, he was a former ANC member and he had spent quite some time at Vlakplaas. By that stage he was already a member of the force. I found him at Vlakplaas in 1983 when I returned from South West. Then there was Jimmy Mbane, who was also a former ANC member ...

MR BOTHA: At that time you were in the service of the police and you were stationed at Vlakplaas.

MR JANSEN: Just to clarify the major points, you were a member of Unit C1, the so-called Vlakplaas, from 1984 to 1992.

... the intensifying of the particular threat, was promoted on a continual basis with Head Office. Col de Kock in his capacity as Commander of Vlakplaas and the application of askaris was a source of information which was of particular interest to my division. It is then obvious that from ...

MR VAN SCHALKWYK: You have heard the evidence in the Bhila case, with regards to the communication between a unit of Vlakplaas which would do some service here and also the Port Natal division. I just want to ask you a few questions about that.

... in his office that there had been an attack on an 'ANC farm'.  Mr Kentane reported that one person had been killed.  Mr Kentane arrived at Vlakplaas 3 - 4 days after this ...

MR JANSE VAN RENSBURG: If I can remember correctly Mr Erasmus asked how are you going to do it and I proposed that I could contact Mr Coetzee at Vlakplaas near Pretoria because I knew him and we were also involved in the same operation in Swaziland. Those were during the earlier years. And I ...

... and ideas of MK, that somebody had to be brought in who had fresher knowledge of these issues and it was decided to bring in Moni and Monyane from Vlakplaas. And this happened about a month or so after the initial penetration, so the evidence was, of this group by Lengene. Moni also in fact ...

During approximately May 1987, while a Vlakplaas unit was in Durban, penetration was done by members of Vlakplaas, i.e. Simon Radebe and two askaris, Jimmy Mbane and Dube.