Vlakplaas

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.

10.   The transportation of firearms from Namibia to Vlakplaas during or about 1989.

... 5. We will not immediately refer to it, the only reason why I mention it now is by virtue of certain questions that have been asked regarding ...

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 ...

MR BOOYENS: Now is it correct that during 1988 you were stationed at Vlakplaas?

MR MOERANE: Do you remember that the people from Vlakplaas were at a place called Island Rock, where they were having a four day team-building workshop.

MR CORNELIUS: You were deployed to Section C1, known as Vlakplaas. The operations of the unit have been set out in documentation which has already been submitted to this Committee.

MR VAN DER MERWE: However, in this matter you were a member of Vlakplaas and you received your orders and instructions from Mr de Kock to participate in this operation.

MR HATTINGH: Do you confirm once again the supplementary affidavit which you have made about Vlakplaas as such?

Brigadier, with regard to procedures which were applicable with regard to control and command, is it correct that when - let us be specific, when the Vlakplaas contingency moved down to your area they resorted under your command and control.

MR MALAN: I beg your pardon, before you continue with that. Do I understand you correctly when you say that at that stage Cronje was permanently on the East Rand and that the operation in other words was for all executionary purposes, something from Vlakplaas?

Vlakplaas, were at work in Port Elizabeth?

MR CORNELIUS: And you executed the instructions of Col Eugene de Kock who was the Commander of Vlakplaas and that you operated on a need to know basis, is that correct?

... bringing down his masters, we are told that later that same day, the Minister of Police, Adriaan Vlok, shared a braai with De Kock and his men at Vlakplaas to celebrate their ...

MR MAMASELA: It was an office at Vlakplaas that was used for briefing special ops members. If somebody goes for a special operation, you go into that office and you get briefed.

MR CORNELIUS: Paragraph Roman (iv), you were connected to Section C10 or C1 of the South African Police stationed at Vlakplaas. You confirm that you received an order from Eugene de Kock to be available for an operation in Johannesburg. Is that so?

MR CORNELIUS: Did you then go and pick up members of Vlakplaas or other police members?

BRIG CRONJE: Johannes Mnisi was a former askari at Vlakplaas and he decided to rejoin the ANC. He then went into exile in Botswana and from there he launched and planned a variety of terrorist activities, he was one of the main planners of, for instance, the Church Street Bomb. According to ...

MR COETZEE: According to my recollection I was just before I left because I handed Vlakplaas over to my successor on the 31st of December 1981 and I knew that I was somewhere in the Eastern Transvaal during that time.

MR LAMEY: Very well. And did you then depart from Vlakplaas?