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BOTHA, JHAge Description ... agent, Mr Chris Hlongwane, was paid R7 000. For the Viva and Dikaledi/Make killings, Zakade is said to have been paid R8 500. 282 Colonel Johan Botha was involved in these two operations with Labuschagne. Both applied for amnesty. 283 Two days after the murder of Viva and his companions, ... ... 113 The document raised concerns reflected in the previous complaint and made a number of suggestions to the Commission. ■ MR PW BOTHA’S REFUSAL TO APPEAR BEFORE THE COMMISSION 114 On 5 December 1997, the Commission issued a section 29 notice to former State President Mr PW ... state policy and in oppositional politics in the second half of the 1970s. For a variety of reasons – the improved organisation of the SADF, Mr PW Botha’s expertise in building empires and the SAP’s inability to deal effectively with the 1976 uprising – PW Botha possessed a far stronger ... application in the Windhoek Supreme Court for the detainees to be released. The court hearing was prohibited by the South African State President PW Botha, using powers under the Defence Act (section 103 ter (4)). They were, nonetheless, released in two batches in May and October 1984. They ... response to this MK inflow that the SADF moved a unit of its troops through the Beit Bridge border post towards the end of 1979. According to Mr Pik Botha’s statement to the Commission, the movement of troops across the bridge was done with the concurrence of the Muzorewa Government. 171 In ... ... is to gain control of government by gaining the support of the people through a combination of intimidation, persuasion and propaganda. 110 The Botha government’s riposte was a ‘total strategy’ of counter-revolution, in which every sphere of government activity was to be co-ordinated so ... Some individual submissions Pastor Craig Botha, former radio operator and diver in the South African Navy 30 Pastor Craig Botha was a seventeen-year-old conscript in the SADF serving in Bloemfontein in 1978. After his basic training, he decided to join the navy because he did not want to serve ... ... a national security staff function in the Office of the Prime Minister; a Working Committee and Secretariat to service the SSC. However, when PW Botha became Prime Minister in September 1978, little progress had been made with the exception of the establishment of fifteen inter-departmental ... ... external training. Cele was abducted from Manzini, Swaziland, in July 1987 by Security Branch members Sergeant Lawrence Wassermann and Mr Hentie Botha, with the help of an unknown informer, and taken to a house in the eastern Transvaal for questioning. When he refused to co-operate he was ... ... a Port Elizabeth prison in December 1977. He was detained and appeared in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on a case against PEBCO leader Mr Thozamile Botha and two others. He refuted a statement he had been forced to sign implicating Botha. The accused were released, but Nobadula was redetained ... ... have and it would be so inciteful that this risk was too big’.105 e In August 1988, Minister Vlok was allegedly ordered by State President PW Botha to render Khotso House ‘unusable’, but to do so without loss of life. According to Mr Vlok and General van der Merwe, the Security Branch ... ... point on 15 July 1995, and the fact that three participants in the hearing were either current serving members of the SANDF (Lieutenant Colonel Botha) or retired members of the SADF (the Reverend Neels du Plooy and Lieutenant Craig Botha). ... ... SADF’s attitude to black soldiers occurred in this period, with coloured soldiers eventually being used for active duty. As late as 1970, Mr PW Botha, then Minister of Defence, restated official opposition to arming Africans. If “the Bantu” wanted to build a defence force, Botha ... ... African Information Systems (AFRINFRO) (PTY) LTD and Longreach. 40 In the mid-1980s, the DCC was headed by a Director ( Brig. JP ‘Tolletjie’ Botha) who reported direct to the Chief of Staff Intelligence. He had below him five sections, namely, West Front (Namibia and Angola headed by Brig. ... ... was laid against a former employee of the Commission’s East London office. The matter was still pending at the time of reporting. c State v PW Botha. In this case, a criminal charge was laid against former state president Mr PW Botha following his refusal to appear before the Human Rights ... ... GRANTED 97/04/14 1190/96 BHILA, A CHAMBER GRANTED 97/04/02 0041/96 BLEKI, SL HEARING GRANTED 98/05/11 0057/96 BOTHA, DP HEARING GRANTED 97/09/05 (unlawful poss. of arms & ammu) 1703/96 BOTHA, JJC CHAMBER GRANTED 96/12/09 ... ... Mr Flip Koenraad Theron [AM5012/97], Warrant Officer Willem Albertus, ‘Willie’ Nortjé [AM3764/96], Mr Gerrie Johan Barnard [AM5004/97], Mr CJ Botha [AM5015/97], Major Christo Petro Deetlefs [AM5001/97], Mr JB Hayes [AM5003/97], Captain Marthinus David Ras jnr. [AM5183/97], Sergeant CS ... ... the Commission, at least sub-consciously, was of a criminal state. 50 Secondly, there was clearly some agreement to treat former President PW Botha differently – not to involve him directly in the processes of the Commission. Consequently, vital understandings of his mind and his ... The injured were Mr Gerhardus Ackermann [CT05000/GAU], Mr Zirkie Bernardus Jansen [CT03085/GAU], Ms Marina Louis Geldenhuys [JB00163/01ER[, Ms Paula Botha [JB00177/02PS], Mr James Marren Simpson [JB00179/02PS], Ms Hester Catharina Coetzee [JB00181/02PS], Mr Neville Clarence [JB00702/02PS], Mr ... ... Centres (JMCs) country-wide. 52 At the SSC meeting of 12 May 1986, where the proposals were tabled, the minutes note that the chairperson (Mr PW Botha) said that the security forces must work together on the establishment of a ‘third force’; that such a force must have a developed capacity ... |