Vlakplaas

QUESTION:: Thank you Mr Chairman. Mr Coetzee just to recap, you were the Commander of Vlakplaas, Section C1 Unit of the South African Security Police until the end of December 1981, is that correct?

... be in all our best interests, if we devoted the first few days to the hearing of general evidence relating to the background, to the places such as Vlakplaas and to the factors which influenced the applicants. It is hoped that once we have concluded this evidence, it will be transcribed and then ...

And it was based at Vlakplaas. --- That's correct.

Chairperson, just lastly, before the so called De Kock Clusters commenced there was a hearing in this forum on the general background relating to Vlakplaas etcetera and evidence was given which is being transcribed and which is before you, I'm not going to refer to it save for one thing and that ...

MR HATTINGH: You have already given evidence in previous hearings and you have given evidence in general about Vlakplaas as an operational unit of the Security police at that time.

MR HATTINGH: You have already given evidence in previous hearings and you have given evidence in general about Vlakplaas as an operational unit of the Security police at that time.

MR HATTINGH: And thereafter you were transferred to Vlakplaas in Pretoria, is that correct?

MR HATTINGH: Can you recall at what time you returned to Vlakplaas, from Head Office?

... To the best of my memory after we arrested Mr Mabotha we let De Kock know that we had arrested him because he was a person who had deserted from Vlakplaas. I cannot remember details but I think De Kock joined us later. I remember that we took Mabotha and handed him to De Kock but I can't ...

MR HATTINGH: It deals mainly with general background and political motivation, Mr Chairman. Mr Radebe, you were a member of the South African Police and during September 1985, you were attached to Unit C1, stationed at Vlakplaas, is that correct?

MS PATEL: Right. Can you tell us who was Mr Mabotha's handler from Vlakplaas?

MR CORNELIUS: Very well. You were under C-Section at Vlakplaas.

a mock ambush is set up. Eugene de Kock's predecessor at Vlakplaas is Captain Dirk Coetzee, who

... van der Colf, I spoke to his commander, du Plessis, who has left the service, and they came back to me and told me that Pierre van der Colf went to Vlakplaas at a certain stage and took a statement from Mr Mabotha with regard to his knowledge surrounding Mr Matua. However they could not tell me ...

MR RAMAWELE: Now just briefly, after joining the SAP in 1979, when did you become attached to the Vlakplaas unit?

MS PATEL: Fine, thank you. Just to recap on yesterday, if I understand your testimony correctly, you and the rest of the members from Vlakplaas came up to Durban to assist with the unrest in the area. You and Nortje, Willie Nortje, at some stage went to the police station or the army base as you ...

MR BOOYENS: From page eight up to page 24, you refer to your background, your history in the police, your experience there, your history at Vlakplaas and that type of information. Is that correct?

MR HATTINGH: Of Vlakplaas, yes.

MR FRANCIS: How many murders have you committed whilst you were a Commander of Vlakplaas and also I think during the time that you spent at Namibia?

MR HATTINGH: Thank you. Now, you said yesterday that when you arrived back at Vlakplaas you received certain instructions and you thereupon proceeded to Krugersdorp.