JACKIE, (other details unknown)

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An MK operative who was targeted along with three others for assassination. The first attempt took place at the Lion Park Motel in August 1987 and the second at the Oasis Motel in Gaborone in September 1987. Both operations, jointly conducted by SADF Special Forces and the Security Branch, were unsuccessful. The divisional commander of the Western Transvaal Security Branch and five Soweto Security Branch operatives were granted amnesty for their role in the operations (AC/1999/0308).

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Episode 4, Section 3 | Watch the Video

Jackie Quin, Leon Meyer killed in cross-border raid, Maseru, Lesotho

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Transcript of episode 4, section 3, starting at: 10:26

... days after Phoenix’s first birthday, the family were at home together. Obviously preparing for Christmas in a week’s time, because the present Jackie was making for Phoenix was at the sewing machine. In the middle of the night, under cover of darkness disguised, camouflaged men with ...

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Transcript of episode 15, section 6, starting at: 34:18

told her: the Boers killed my wife. He said they spoke Afrikaans. They blackened their bodies but the white skin showed under the shirtsleeves. My brother and his wife did not deserve to die without dignity. He was a loving and concerned person and unselfish in his loyalty to the ANC. With Cliffie ...

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Transcript of episode 82, section 3, starting at: 33:27

... may give us a clearer picture of who did what, where despite the fact that the Truth Commission can’t indemnify people for crimes committed in other ...

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Transcript of episode 8, section 7, starting at: 34:55

has heard evidence before of attacks on exile South Africans in neighbouring states. The attack on Father Michael Lapsley in Zimbabwe, the murder of Jackie Quinn, and others in Lesotho in 1987. On Tuesday a remarkable survivor told of the bloody South African raid on Maseru in 1982. // Nellie ...

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Transcript of episode 82, section 3, starting at: 30:04

‘Maseru Lesotho December 1985’ // Nine people died in this attack. Among the dead was Jackie Quinn whose family testified at the TRC in 1996. // I feel that as long as the people up top who gave the order are exposed, that it’s going to help a lot. If we can find out, it must be somebody in ...

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Transcript of episode 20, section 2, starting at: 04:04

... massacre or his role in the Shell House killings. De Kock said his war never included women, children and innocent civilians. He did not talk about Jackie Quinn, a civilian with no links to any political parties, slaughtered by him and his team in Maseru in 1985 or of Japie Maponya whom he beat ...

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Transcript of episode 23, section 2, starting at: 03:23

... It was also Basie Smit that decorated the Vlakplaas death squad when they came back from the operation in Lesotho in which Leon Meyer and Jackie Quin were gunned down in December 1985. What we know of these two men might well only be the tip of the iceberg. When they testify before the ...

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Transcript of episode 15, section 6, starting at: 33:58

The police star for bravery for the brutal slaughter of unarmed and defenceless people. Last month this programme focused on the murder of Leon Meyer and his wife Jackie in Maseru in 1985. This week, Meyer’s sister brought her grief and her frustration to the Truth Commission in Pretoria.

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