Vlakplaas

mentioned that Nortje who was a member of Vlakplaas and in

"Members attached to the Security Branch arrived there that evening in our area, apparently awaiting these explosions. At some stage I had a discussion with Col Venter and Col de Kock. Last-names was stationed at Vlakplaas, Pretoria.

MR WASSERMAN: We pulled off before the range and I, and we spoke together and he informed me that the Vlakplaas contingent had picked up Mr Bhila.

MR ROSSOUW: Do you confirm the rest of the contents in that statement on 179 and more specifically the function at Vlakplaas where Mr Vlok attended and which you also attended?

MR NEL: At the time of this incident were you a member of Vlakplaas, obviously in the South African Police?

MR KNIGHT: Thank you Mr Chairman. Mr Dandala, what led you to believe that had you not participated, that you might have been killed by the Vlakplaas contingent?

MR VAN DYK: I'm not sure if it was Middelburg or Vlakplaas. I think it was in 1980. I can't dispute that it might have been 1980, because it was a long time ago.

somehow they were above it all and the Judiciary’s role in our country made them far more valuable to the fortification of apartheid than a thousand Vlakplaas farms could have done. It gave the system a veneer of respectability which the state could flaunt to the outside world and it added steel ...

we discussed this with Colonel Hattingh and he agreed that this was a good idea and according to my best recollection, Mr Hammond and I drove out to Vlakplaas where we presented our problem to Mr de Kock. His immediate reaction was that he didn't have a problem with assisting us but that he ...

MR BOOYENS: It is also correct - you have heard the evidence of Mr du Toit, that you manufactured a prototype and that this was tested at Vlakplaas.

MR RAS: Yes, it was part of Vlakplaas that we executed operations which were basically beyond the law.

ADV BOOYENS: Mr Chairman, could my learned friend just clarify one thing. He said then they went to sleep. Who is the they? Is that everybody involved in the questioning or just the askaris or the men from Vlakplaas, if my learned friend wouldn't mind clearing that up, it is not exactly clear.

MR LOTZ: At Vlakplaas.

CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR HATTINGH: Thank you Mr Chairman. Mr Deetlefs you were then aware that C1 that was stationed at Vlakplaas were the Security Police's operational unit, is that correct?

MR NEL: At the time of this incident you were a member of the police, stationed at Vlakplaas, under the command of Col de Kock.

MR PENZHORN: Vlakplaas?

... very good that they would be murdered. The attempt to persuade the two PAC detainees to cooperate with the SAP would be undertaken by members of ...

... Police when he carried out the operation. It was the duty of the Security Police to maintain law and order in the Republic of South Africa and the Vlakplaas Unit was created specifically to deal with insurgency and to counter any possible attack on the Security Forces and ...

... during our trial, which is today Exhibit A in the amnesty hearing. One of the most well known attacks was the bombing of Cosatu House in 1987 by Vlakplaas operatives and both Eugene de Kock and others have applied for amnesty in this ...

CHAIRPERSON: No okay, let me put it to you this way. We've heard many cases and before 1994 a lot was said about the Caprivi scenario, the Vlakplaas scenario, etc. It seems to me that you were an expert in training these people in preparation for these horrendous offences, not so?