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VAN DER BANK, SAge Description ... of Mines
Coleman, A
Congress of South African Trade Unions
Consultative Business Movement
Crawford-Browne, T
De Castro-Moura, M M
Development Bank of Southern Africa
Economic Advisory Council: Warren Clewlow
Eskom
Ex-Ford Workers Committee
Federated Mining and Allied Industries Workers ... ... link with the IFP was made during 1990 by a former Vlakplaas operative Andries (Brood) van Heerden, who had joined the security division of ABSA Bank in Johannesburg. In June 1990, Van Heerden was introduced to Mr Themba Khoza of the IFP who asked him to supply the IFP with weapons. Van ... ... from escaping; a group of policemen hid in the river bed, about thirty metres from the road; two or three other military personnel waited on the bank to the right of the road to communicate with the occupants of the minibus. A number of other groups were stationed in the vicinity to observe ... parastatal organisations 37 Information was also provided to the Commission on the role of economic institutions such as the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and parastatal bodies such as the Land Bank, the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), and the Electricity Supply Commission ... ... submissions from victims of ‘unplanned’ military operations performed by MK operatives, notably from victims of the January 1980 Silverton Bank Siege in Pretoria. Such operations resulted in civilian casualties. The July 1977 Goch Street shooting in Johannesburg is also documented here ... ... amnesty. During 1989, several ‘false flag’ operations were conducted, including a bomb attack on the Athlone post office and the First National Bank on 22 and 24 August 1989 respectively. Amnesty applications were received. 240 During the Defiance Campaign in the Peninsula in 1989, limpet ... SWISS BANKS AND OTHER LENDERS 15. As noted above, it is the aim of a recently established reconstruction and development fund established in Switzerland to persuade those who benefited substantially from doing business with Pretoria during the 1980s to contribute to the fund. It is estimated that ... ... MK member, who was killed during interrogation. He also applied for amnesty in connection with the interrogation of a security guard at the United Bank in Pretoria, whose brother was an MK ‘terrorist’. 198 Amnesty applicant Stephanus Adriaan Oosthuizen [AM3760/96] applied for the beating, ... ... OF THE CDF HELD ACCOUNTABLE ARE GENERAL MARIUS OELSCHIG, MAJOR MVELELI MLEVI MBINA, COLONEL VAKELE ARCHIEBALD MKOSANA AND GENERAL DIRK VAN DER BANK. ... ... from the President’s Fund, informing victims of the outcome of their applications. 38. Payments were, in the main, made directly into individual banking accounts, using an electronic banking system (the BDB Data Bureau System). Whilst this was the quickest and most secure way of effecting ... ... they were travelling was ambushed. According to Colonel Eugene de Kock, he had been persuaded that a group led by Leballo was planning to rob a bank to build up the ANC’s election funds. Leballo was known to the police as Winnie Mandela’s former driver and a trained ANC member. Leballo ... ... to come and visit me and not cry. But where my blood will drop, so many Solomons will grow up because I am innocent. 231 In the 1980 Silverton bank siege in Pretoria on 25 January, Mr Willem de Klerk [JB00697/02PS] lost his wife, Ms Anna de Klerk. Another civilian and three MK operatives ... ... are irrelevant to the argument. The Apartheid Debt Co-ordinating Committee makes such a case with regard to loans: A large number of inter-bank loans, for instance, had no direct connection with apartheid. Yet, the foreign exchange given for a seemingly innocuous purpose – ranging from ... Banking 42 The Commission recommends that: THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE RESERVE BANK BE PROTECTED. THE BANK NEEDS TO BECOME MORE TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN PUBLIC BY REPORTING DIRECTLY TO PARLIAMENT ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. THE BANKING INDUSTRY DEVELOP A SUBSIDISED LOAN SCHEME FOR ... Ciskei security forces and the ANC. 7 Mkosana’s reports to his superiors and the authorisation to open fire were confirmed by Oelschig and Van der Bank to the CDF inquiry and to the Commission. ... ... with the political and economic structures of apartheid. 30. Between 1950 and 1980, international financial institutions and foreign private banks granted loans to Eskom amounting to at least US$7.5 billion. British banks contributed 26 per cent, banks in France almost 24 per cent, West ... considered a dangerous or fruitless exercise4 . 113 In 1986, in a ‘false-flag operation’ that went awry, a group of recces placed a bomb near a bank in Oshakati and detonated it. The intention was to make it look like a SWAPO operation in order to justify harsh measures planned against the ... secret projects could be managed. It guaranteed payment of debts owed by projects Grail and Arcadia. Transfers included R3 336 891.40 to Rothschilds Bank in November 1985, and R11.4 million to an unknown recipient through Credit Suisse Geneva in February 1986. Taussig guarantees issued to the ... ... were stamped with a false SA Perm rubber stamp. The amount was estimated to be between R500 000 and R2 million, placed in a Bellville Boland Bank, and was spent by those who had signing powers on the account (Statement by Jan van Eck, Parliament, 21 May 1990). 59 The Attorney-General ... ... while providing a basis for restitution for those who have been impoverished through apartheid. 156 Mr Bob Tucker, executive director of the Banking Council, argued (without being mandated to do so by members of the Banking Council) that business should contribute to “reconstruction and ... |
