Vlakplaas

MR PIENAAR: I went that morning to Moolman, where I found Mr Mngomezulu along with other members from Vlakplaas and upon my arrival there it was clear to me that Mr Mngomezulu had already been assaulted. I don't know by whom. I asked the members present there to focus themselves on the question ...

... presumably accepted by family, friends and work associates. Their diabolical and cowardly actions even earned them silver medals for bravery at a Vlakplaas ceremony, of all the hideously ironical things, and they might even be proud of them. Just how sick is our society that we accept among us ...

Each and every person I investigated, though the TRC calls them a perpetrator, they later on became my friends, all of them, from Vlakplaas askaris and so on, and after my investigation, I still had contact with them and in our discussion and in our contact, a certain information came to me and ...

... Schoon was in charge of Section C of the Security Branch in Pretoria and had under his command Colonel de Kock, who was the commander of the Vlakplaas unit. Captain van Dyk and Sergeant Willemse were members of this unit and fell under de Kock's command. Colonel Visser was head of ...

... actions included DST's Operation Katzen in the Eastern Cape; and operations conducted by the SADF's Special Forces, the CCB, the SAP's Units C10 (Vlakplaas) and C4 ...

MR CORNELIUS: You were attached to Section C1 at Vlakplaas, of which the general background has already been submitted to the Committee, the so-called Annexure C, is that correct?

MR SIBANYONI: Yes. Is it the same Viva we once had in one of the applications by the Vlakplaas operatives who was killed in Vosloorus Boksburg, when they tried to arrest him?

... that you had with you at that stage. Let me just ask this directly, because he said that he had Uzzi weapons, silencers that they brought from Vlakplaas - or let me put it this way, did you have a weapon with ...

... away to hide him somewhere and to give him time to recover from the obvious injuries that he had. He mentioned that they could have taken him to Vlakplaas for ...

... application. In fact, we were going to clean out, for example, in a so-called stationery raid, the whole of Portland Place, in conjunction with Vlakplaas, but that was many years later. So to answer your question Mr Chairman, a lot of it was for operational ...

MR BOSCH: Chairperson, I received instructions from Col de Kock to transport the persons from Vlakplaas to Khanya House. I prepared the minibus, in other words I put on false plates and filled the petrol in it and I think beforehand I went to drive around the place in order to familiarise myself ...

MR GOOSEN: From Security Headquarters, where he was a commanding officer of Vlakplaas.

... steps and to issue the necessary orders to carry out the operation. Schoon instructed de Kock, the commander of C-Unit of the Security Police at Vlakplaas to take the necessary steps to carry out the intended explosion. The operation had to be carried out in Johannesburg and de Kock had ...

it briefly. May I just ask you beforehand, on previous occasions you have conceded that your memory with regard to the events of the past, there at Vlakplaas, is somewhat vague, is that ...

We are now dealing with applications pertaining to the so-called Parker Pen Set Bomb Incident. All the Applicants herein were members of the Vlakplaas Unit, a component of the South African Security Police ("SAPS"). They all worked under de Kock who was their operational commander. They are ...

... he would return to the RSA, as we did. This indeed took place. I did not see him again. He was taken to Pretoria where he was employed at Vlakplaas, as far as I ...

MR ROSSOUW: Mr Chairman, I believe that there is still other members of Vlakplaas who must proceed.

... newspaper and one police contacted us after seeing her picture on the newspaper and said he knew that girl, because he kept guard at that girl in Vlakplaas Police Station and the last time that police saw Nokuthula, Nokuthula was ill and she was severely and brutally tortured. The ...

... projects of Special Forces.  Special Forces also worked in collaboration with the Civil Cooperation Bureau ("CCB") and Eugene de Kock's unit at Vlakplaas, ...

MR SEMENYA: But let me tell you why he was using that name, he was using the name because he’s the very first person who disclosed the Vlakplaas story which was communicated to Lusaka, can you deny that Ma’am?