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KOCK, MMAge Description They were in for a rude wake up call. The bombing of the school was the combination of endless problems Helena de Kock experienced right from the start. The government, the Klerksdorp city council and the white community seemed determined to see them fail. They could not register the school until ... The names of Eugene de Kock, Dirk Coetzee and Joe Mamasela have become household names in South Africa the last few years. So has the name Vlakplaas, the farm where these efficient killers had their base. The secret of the so-called successful death squad was the use of a group of men and women ... super spy Craig Williamson admitted to the parcel bombs that killed Ruth First and Jeanette and Katryn Schoon. Former Vlakplaas commander, Eugene de Kock is now on trial for murdering ANC lawyer Bheki Mlangeni with a parcel bomb in 1991. The security police had a technical division which ... ... Colonel Roelf Venter, Vlakplaas officer in 1984 and ’85. Captain Wouter Mentz, based at Vlakplaas from 1989 to ’92, contemporary of Eugene de Kock. Captain Jacques Hechter. Warrant officer Paul van Vuuren. These former police security branch officers will testify next week about bombings, ... ... white, and not David Tshikalanga and Albert Nofemela too, I can’t say. Why, in the Motherwell case, in the Magnus Malan trial, in the Eugene de Kock trial perpetrators had stood up for the truth was used as state witnesses and Dirk Coetzee who is the first one and so far, the only one, the ... ... in Beeld. We translated the words from Afrikaans. So they say they didn”t know much. Former Vlakplaas commanders Dirk Coetzee and Eugene de Kock are already on record saying they had no doubt that Vlok knew exactly what Vlakplaas did. The next question is. Even if they claim they did not ... When we look at this new face of Eugene de Kock and wonder why he seems so human and normal we should remember what the author Hannah Arendt said about the notorious Nazi leader Adolf Eichman in her book Inquiry into the Banality of Evil. This is what she wrote. // ‘The trouble with Eichman was ... ... handle it. I cannot remember exactly how it happened, but it was arranged that he’d be buried at Vlakplaas and his entire family was there and De Kock gave instruction that everyone was to attend the funeral. I simply couldn’t bring myself to attend the funeral. It was too much for me and I ... ... the best possible behaviour. It allows you contact visits and it’s earned. Now if this person had earned A group status. // Is this Eugene de Kock? // That’s right. Notwithstanding the horrors of the crimes that he’d committed; if he’d earned A group status on the criteria that the ... ... business. The nation is still waiting to hear what shocking revelations might come from the amnesty applications of serial murderer Eugene de Kock and superspy Craig ... ... have done without this process? // Well you know I don’t think this process was the only alternative. One could have had trials along the De Kock trial, now the Ferdi Barnard trial. My whole feeling about the Truth Commission, there was very little observance of judicial procedures. So, ... ... is whether or not the applicants have disclosed fully. With George Bizos chipping away at their evidence from the families’ side and Eugene de Kock delivering a few powerful side swipes from his corner, serious doubts have been raised about whether or not the killers of the Cradock Four are ... Louis Le Grange lied. At the time of the bombing a group of security policemen were assembled in London, amongst them Craig Williamson, Vic McPherson, Peter Casselton, Eugene de Kock. Eugene de Kock expressed the desire to meet with the families of the dead policemen. They granted him the opportunity, but at both De Kock’s and the family’s insistence, their encounter was a private one. De Kock gave instructions that we should go and help Port Elizabeth Police, because there were some chaps that were making Port Elizabeth ungovernable and those people had to be eliminated. ... Geldenhuys. Two of the other generals, Krappies Engelbrecht and Johan le Roux have already been implicated in some of the charges against Eugene de Kock. The men want amnesty of these incidents, which include several bomb explosions, including one in London and the killing of more than 40 people. ... ... became a farce. // This was the man investigating Coetzee’s allegation, General Krappies Engelbrecht, recently exposed in the Eugene de Kock case as the Vlakplaas sweeper, the cop who had to cover up. The Goldstone Commission implicated him in third force activities. No surprise then ... Eugene de Kock also named former president PW Botha as a man who was directly involved, who gave orders; who had intimate knowledge. Can the Truth Commission afford not to call Mr. PW Botha? // I don’t think we can afford not to call him quite frankly. // But he has said that he won’t come. ... He was a close friend of Eugene de Kock and of Craig Williamson and like his two friends he now wants the Truth Commission to grant him amnesty. But before that can happen, Peter Casselton will have to do a lot of explaining. If you look at the prognosis of Eugene de Kock. Anybody who thinks I took Eugene from Sunday school to prison…it’s just a fallacy. He has a bad profile, an evil profile. If you think of people he killed and at this point in time, how do you evaluate him and think that he may not continue that ... |
