e n e r a l christoffei “joffei” van der Westhuizen, the army ’s Eastern Province Command. powerful intelligence chief who The eastern Cape has long been is at the centre of the Goniwe regarded in military circles as the sec Gassassination row, was head of Armythe intelligence ond most important region in the coun South African Defence Force on the try, after the Witwatersrand. The EP Reef at the time when military agents Command is often used as a spring spied on murdered academic David board for officers headed for top posi Webster. chief linked to tions and the area has been used as a Van der Westhuizen— the flamboy testing ground for military strategies ant officer who allegedly gave the onier, such as those employed during the when he was head of the SADF’s 1980s to counter the "total onslaught” Eastern Province Command in 1985, to against the country. “permanently remove” activist Webster murder Adding a feather to Van der f Matthew Goniwe — moved to the Reef Westhuizen s cap was the fact that while at the end of 1986. he was in charge of the EP Command, it A senior military intelligence (Ml) One of the most powerful men in the military has been linked to was awarded the SADF’s coveted source told The Weekly Mail this week the murder of human-ri<*hts academic David Webster — and he “Swond of Peace” in 1986 and 1987., that Van der Westhuizen took charge of In his present controlling position of the Witwatersrand Command until is likely to be called to testify at the o fficial inquest due to start the security forces. Van der West huizen appears to have continued focus February 1990. when he moved on to soon. By LOUISE FLANAGAN and EDDIE KOCH become deputy chief of the SADF. This ing his operations in the eastern Cape as meant he received intelligence reports well as on the Reef, in some he from army agents who carried out has used his former EP Command “dirty-tricks” campaigns against anti- henchmen to cany out these operations. government leaders, including agents One of these is Lourens du Plessis, involved in the Johannesburg City named as the man who wrote and Council spy scandal. signed the now obsolete signal message Lawyer Tony Naude admitted during form asking for authorisation of the the official probe into the spy scandal that Goniwe murder. Du Plessis was at the he had made friends with Webster and time the acting Staff Officer for had monitored his activities for MI offi Intelligence at EP Command. cers on the Witwatersrand before the Although SADF spokesman Colo human-rights academic was gunned nel John Rolt has said that Du Plessis’ down outside hisTroyeville home on address was not known. The Weekly May 1 three years ago. Mail was easily able to contact him at Hannes Gouws, a city council securi his home this week. He is now retired ty agent who gave evidence during the from the SADF, but he still draws a mil itary pension. Hiemstra Commission of Inquiry, named a number of army agents who Du Plessis was the man in charge of worked out of Wits Command and M i’s Comops (communications opera would have fallen-under Van der tions) at EP Command under Van der Westhuizen s authority. Westhuizen. He was known for his con An official inquest into Webster’s tacts in the Ciskei and is believed to have assassination is due to start in a few been involved with the now defunct weeks and it is likely that lawyers for the Ciskei rebel movement lliso Lomzi, headed by Charles Sebe. His activities David WebsterTrust will call the contro- vereial general to the witness box. apparently included discrediting Lennox A joint investigation by The Weekly Sebe, then president of the Ciskei, with Mail and the independent Board of pamphlets and alleged support for those Inquiry into Informal Repression has wanting to overthrow him. established that Van der Westhuizen After the military government took made a name for himself in the eastern over in Ciskei, Du Plessis took up with Cape by setting up an irregular unit a clandestine military grouping called called the Hammer Forces which ear International Researchers-Ciskei ned out special operations against anti- Intelligence Services, enabling the unit govemment and township leaders. to make good use of his Ciske’i connec This was a citizen force unit whose tions. At one point, he was reportedly members earned the right to wear a ruining a food outlet in the Ciskei town badge in the shape of a sledgehammer of Alice on behalf of IR-CIS. on their chests after going through a spe Cape Civil group— Hammer”. : Du Plessis has also been mentioned the most powerful men in the military in connection with the Ml front organi cial training course held at KoOga in the And some members of this unil came today. i eastern Cape. Although its members to the Reef with their leader when Van sation Adult Education Consultants. His career path has been typical of •T he Department of Military, intel were uniformed, they otten took part in der Westhuizen was promoted to officer many SADF senior officers groomed irregular operations as plainclothes in charge of Wits Command. ligence has begun a witchhunt to find for the most powerful posts in lfie secu out who leaked the document that impli operatives. After Van der Westhuizen moved to rity forces. It is highly likely that members of the the Reef, the violence in Port Elizabeth cates Van der Westhuizen to the In 1975, he was involved in the Goniwe murder. Hammer Forces were involved in the and surrounding townships more or less SADF’s first big operation in Angola, mystery army roadblock on the night came to an end. Even the SADF com A number of military officers who. codenamed Operation Savannah. He had access to the top-secret registry in Goniwe was killed (see accompanying mented on this in a February 1988 issue then served as the Officer Command story). which the document was kept were of its newspaper. Uniform, although ing 14 Artillery Regiment at Potchef- The Hammer Forces unit was men Uniform ascribed the peace to the hauled on to the carpet this week. One stroom. and was involved in a lengthy of these officers told The Weekly Mail tioned during the Skweyiya Commis SADF’s efforts. project resulting in the development of sion of Inquiry into security activities at With his promotion to deputy chief of that “the authenticity of the document is the acclaimed G6 cannon. not in doubt”. the University of Transkei. A document the SADF in 1990 and then to Chief of By the early 1980s, he was stationed referred to the "snatching” of a universi It has also been established that the Staff Intelligence, his current position. in Port Elizabeth, where he took up the ty academic which involved the “East Van der Westhuizen has become one of handwriting and the signature on the position of Officer Commanding the document are by Lourens Du Plessis. V _ . a Webster’s murder: Confession probed POLICE are investigating an alleged confession by a I former Civil Co-operation Bureau agent, Mr Herat Barnard, that he murdered academic Dr David Web*|“ - Barnard has been long suspected by lawyers to be at at least indirectly involved in the assassination. A Sunday newspaper yesterday reported that Barnard first claimed he murdered Webster to his former CCB handler the day after the murder The handler, codenamed “Yssel , allegedly told advocate Mr Martin Luilingh of the "confession . Luitingh will give evidence in an inquest into Webster's death. A West Rand businessman, who U> d two police officers that Barnard had also confessed to him will also be called on to give evidence Lawyers dealing with Webster's case are. however, not convinced the confession will bnng anything|new. “We are not really learning anything new. Tins stuff has been bandied around for some time said lawyer Mr David Dyson - Soweinn Correspondent. . . ^ • • • I _____
Officials ‘behind hit squads’ TRANSKEIAN Military recommending that well By IKE MOTSAPI ruler. General Bantu known UDF activist. Mat Holomisa has threatened to thew Goniwe and two oth release documents impli his possession thick files of ers be “permanently re cating the Government in secret documents which moved from society.” hit-squad murders. show that political killings Holomisa said: “It is Holomisa, addressing around the country were imperative that Codesa Codesa 2 Plenary Session "sanctioned at the highest considers the advisability last Friday, said he has in level of Government". of calling upon neutral ar He said names men biters and jurists to look tioned in these files were at into and verify the authen the highest level in both ticity of the contents of the Government and security documents that are in my forces. possession like the signal Holomisa gave the Gov message linked to the dis ernment a taste of things to appearance of Goniwe and come recently by releasing others. a signal form sent by Colo- “A commission of In nel Chris van der quiry consisting of interna Westhuizen. military com tional jurists and credible mander in the Eastern local and legal personnel Cape, to the State Security should be instituted by Council on June 7 1985, Codesa." % Helen Grange session of a hit list All were freed due to lack of evidence F'olice are looking into the The Harms Commission con alleged confession by former Police probe Barnard ‘confession’ cluded that there was no evi Cjivil Co-operation Bureau dence that the CCB had anything ( MR FERDI Barnard, the man at the centre ot allegations of State-spon sored killings and harassment of anu-apanheid activists, makes no apology for his shadowy roie in the service of South Africa. “My record is rotten with vio lence.” the 33-year-old fonnerspy said. "But 1 don't need amnesty. There s no fear in mv heart that I In late 1989 Barnard was de will ever need anything like that.'' tained for three months in connec Barnard, a convicted murderer tion with the killings but released who complains business contacts for lack ol evidence. thmk of him as "James Bond ', In an interview at a friend's added: “1 don't believe there will house. Bamanl suggested a CCB be any type of Nuremberg trials in colleague might know the truth this countrv. because they will sort about the murders, adding: 'lfanv- that out at the negotiating table." one was trained lo kill, it would be He denies accusations that he him." David Webster, wtio was killed In 1989. earned out two of Southern Afn- Barnard desenbed himself as a really as it seems. There'll be no ca s most notonous assassinations, political moderate who loined the (ANC armed wing) activities, you saying a lormer colleague in a se CCB because it paid well. name iL smoking gun." Barnard estimates he has had cret armv unit might know the truth All he did. he said, was use con “If you do the cnme.«vou must 200 stitches in his body trom being about them. tacts in the underworld, "mostly do the time. It's a motto ol mine. The burly former drug squad Mandrax. diamond and weapons You must lace tiieconsequences.'' stabbed five umes and shot once in dctective served three years in tail smugglers", to gather intelligence Barnard said. the course ot his career, which in cluded a sunt as a Johannesburg from 1984 lo 1987 for two unre on enemies of the Slate. "But nobody t in the CCB) ever lated murders ol suspected drug "I lost everything when 1 was in asked me lo do anything illegal or club bouncer. "1 can be violent but I'm not a dealers. jail. All of a sudden I had R.S 000 a to do anv strong arm lacucs or any guy that goes moving around look In March 1988 he joined the month. I had a brand new car. my rough work." ing for trouble.' ’ said Barnard, who I Civil Co-operation Bureau, an- petrol was paid for. ll made it so Hopes of uncovenng the truth ! army special forces undercover mucncasier lor me, that I could live about the killing and others like it is about 2m tall and weighs 105kg. Barnard, who now earns a living i unit which is accused of killing and like anybody else. You can buy a have nsen this year with the start of by recovenng stolen commercial i harassing black activists, woman a present if you want. talks on a transition I rom white rule t Officials ot the unit, now dis- “That to me was like a godsend. lo democracy. property, said he wanted a normal I banded, showed strong opposiuon 1 grabbed it with both hands." The ANC says it will guarantee family life. Bui he savs he is continually to President FW de Klerk's politi Barnard savs the CCIVs work amncsiv if people who earned oul haunted bv his violent past. cal reforms. Thev told a mdicial was needed at the time but became political killings contess. so as lo He wed debt collection work, * investigation into violence that increasingly irrelevant as the re wipe the slate clean ana ensure that but people he visited recognised | iheipob was to maximally disrupt form process pmccedcd. there is no repetition. Police have him Irom newspaper pnotograpns j the enemies of the Stale" at home " People there did bnlliant work, been unable to solve dozens of and asked for police protection. and abroad. The unit has destroyed believe me. 1 was one who operated murders oi activists. He said businessmen impressed files on its work inside Soulh Af alone, goine into a black township Barnard, denying new allega by his CCB service now offered rica. without backing at night lo monitor tions that he currcntlv works (or the him money to beat up nvals. "I For the past three years newsoa- cenain people s movements.'' army s intelligence department, think they re stark raving mad. | pers have regularly splashed "It was intelligence concerning said he doubted the killers of People are trying lo misuse me. ! Barnard s photograph across front anything that damages the Lubowski and W ebster would ever What they see in the papers, to them I pagereponslinkinehimtolhc 1989 economy - laundenne money, drug apply fur amnesty. that's lor real. (It's like) I'm the - killings of Soulh Afncan academic smuggling, weapons smuggling, "If it was done (by) the intelli bi ggest J ames Bond and 1' m scared I Dr David Webster and an anli- politically motivated aclions gence world. 1 doubt it very much ol nothing." - SA Press Associa- i apanheid Namihian lawyer. Mr against the country. Alrican Na because that world is a murkv world non-Reuier i Anton Lubowski. tional Congress activities. MK of shady characters and nothing is CCB’S S “ » « W S & ' j &questions j f o t / t h e L grounds that ...... to do so might ■ . ^ incriminate him c»nF\ notorious Civil ** « + f / THE most senior officer w « k he O . o f c e h t l v w e b b w a s e v o l v e d in a sm aller C elt M ORE RECENTLY w e d u 1K o l me organisa- t r r r , r r r — scandal alter the o ^ ici ^ ^ Commission s findings political opponents of the 8° v £ddi<; Webb 1 ,0 1 1 ll,C " ’■* ,Wen involved ill nel.mous auivi- th." ^ reCommended h.nher invea.u.i- former CCB " " ^ ^ .o n - he could ...... 2si^rssr-£'*s tion were holding t. h .in the SADF was manding larger pe P ere totally -r:£S,i^ -s;—s ottering - though these in ^ ^ - « p»”“ j disproportionate wi pension payouts amnesty ot the new South Africa. completed 11 emerged M i n i i j * *. ^ ^ had been calculate• ^ to h a d l.e c o n tm - member would have nee these emmenr. there are P , agreements by -d -ereet .to when govemmeni use! inse^ manda,ed ^ the ioint ANC/ were the terms an J ihe pr be suing the SADF later this y ^ . ^ o( R1 " indemnity" " “ t as PXVK it has be " g S » v ~ members men..hus»ar.e*ceptu,the „ was of the senior leadership of the ^ ^ blsl5. the CCB s coven activities m ,ml e. g,ven as a blanket ib - g ^ - o n a j o ^ ^ ^ EdMWeee r r R ha« r>tfen named in relation u The CCB has heen omcr resist- u granted in terms ot the crim all probability the ^ “^ ^ d Minister ir s s r tzs* - .*-« - A n ^ 4 w a y up to current Minister ol " T . . 'iT S iT S Lubowski and David w ebstet ^ M uuul u, offences specified on t e N a tio n to any 3 - sr.tjsiS i*.- ...... w ebb currently works him for lunl.er remain liable for ^ ^ words, if Pretoria VNX/Bwas unable to coniae offences that are not s £ ^ nol pened in ‘he SAD* * ‘^ ^ d n u tie d culpability m None ot therri ha M dirty tricks comment. W ebb is genuinely se r, M m e o fbrinkman- merelv engaged in some ooscu (q ^ j w e , m operation* lhe^c ® “* known 10 have been invc^veil ship, then all the questio wlll have 10 the hearings of the Harms commission b e answered at last. _„hllc but as we Harms Commission o nq ^ he onW became AN URGENT ° ' - t = « ~ £ £ = ! K vated .ns.de South Africa eight m onths after he^*ecame h e a d o f SADF Special Forces 0 0 * 0 0 ^ la i. ‘ one ot other orgamsatio have to “grJStrv^ ^ s ttsgis a member ot a s p e cie j » conf^ med that he had he could not remembe . legislation W ebb undertook. filled wha. was requued in terms ANC. j T reason to W#tinw M« was sentenced on cnaraes o - 0e<.emM, 1983 governing indemmtvP ^ ^m i C o m m i s s i o n imornonmenl tor UK eencn vyitnout aoo police.A. to loee'ltlu murder After this week's milestone Trust Feed verdict, claims of state-sponsored violence can no longer be dismissed as rumour N this week’s landmark judgment in the Trust Feed case, the court accepted that security forces played a central role in driving a peaceful community into violence and lawlessness. Until now, the government has dismissed the mounting evidence from around the country of security forces provoking and planning violence. But Mr Justice Andrew Wilson's hard-hitting findings this week should put an end to that. The court ruled that senior policemen had worked with Inkatha warlords to plan and execute the attacks. It became clear during the trial that Trust Feed was not an isolated case. “The specials (riot police) had been used before, ’ one of the central witnesses said repeatedly. The Pietermaritzburg police also engineered an elaborate cover-up which would have succeeded if not for the determined efforts of a detective who stumbled across the evidence while working on another case. Covert security men threaten De Klerk and other top Nats . . .a The letter said “we wowould Circle letterhead, and bears not have contemplated using By Peter Fabricius a Ministry of Law and Order and Shaun Johnson______our resources and consider stamp indicating that it was able capabilities (to which received in Cape Town on President de Klerk and at the General Staff of the De least three senior Cabinet March 16. fence Force. Police and se Ministers have received In the letter, the inner Cir nior management of NIS can cle claim s to be a “well- attest, as they have made threatening letters from an structured group of former organisation calling itself use of, and are still using our members of the SA Defence the “Binnekring" (Inner Cir services)” unless it was clear Force. Military Intelligence, the country was going to be cle) and claim ing to be a Special Forces. South Afri “formal covert group” made “handed over to a commu can Police Task Force, secu up of former security offi- nist-dominated Codesa. in- rity police and of the Nation i cers. terim government or the; The letters called on the al Intelligence Service”. The group said it had ANC". top National Party politi Mr Kriel’s spokesman,-, “been monitoring your (the Major-General Leon Mellet, cians to "turn back" from Government’s) political ini Codesa or “face the conse- confirmed vesterdav that Mr | tiatives over the last lo de Klerk and the three Cabi months with growing con ^M ^de Klerk. Law and net ministers had received cern. . Order Minister Hemus Kriel, “We were prepared to the letters. Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Police were investigating Botha and former Finance allow you the benefit of the the source of the letters but doubt, and gave you the op Minister Barend du Plessis had not yet found any clues. received the letters shortly portunity to prove your sin It is understood the police c e r it y and provide a viable before the referendum on have some idea who might option for a new SA.” be behind the organisation, i March 17. According to the letter, The Star is in possession ol and that they believe it is the Inner Circle "command a copy of the letter sent to possible it is a “crank outfit cell” had now decided that rather than a serious securi MrKriel. the reform process was run i it was typed — in English ty threat. — on a Binnesring/Inner ning out of control. 5/eU forces CHRIS BATfcMAM ami ^l/iNDON — Amnesty International l | ______QAVIW DU VEWAQE has accused SA’s security forces of land condoned the use of torture involvement in violence and says gov It said the ANC had been guilty of abuses ernment is guilty of ? S ag ain st its members as well as involve at best” in not bringing the culpnts to ment in township violence in vears “The ANC and its supporters have ^°TheLondon-based humannghtsorgaai- beoT responsible for deliberate and arbi- sation also aaid unless steps were taken to S S « d human rights the poliUcalre tr^Uthougb^ctims of violence cm e^tram form process in SA “ ^ f ^ ^ S o n s across the political spectrum, the over ' These were among toe concrou™ whelming majority*' had ^ reached by Amnesty ta a oerceived sympathisers of the ANL ana gu\ SA — State of Fear, wmcn w«* E o r m B W ° ^ U o r * a £ o n a month-long visit to SA by senior The report documented what it calleua S b e r s in December last year and su* “systematic pattern of police and mihtary sequent monitoring operation*- involvement In torture and assassinations during the past two years. ■ Jd S e to m taSA had brongtt^eeping Government had failed to act agamst S ^ d u d i n g collu- “all but a tiny proportion of human^ ngh violators within the pohce and imhUiy- r in n ^ M litic a l killings or standing by This served to give the security forces the while others massacred Politi“ | " v^ i S i S S that they "g« .« » ? « > “■ Law and Order spokesman Capt Craig 1. Kotie described the report as partisan and I . t»t b. W i**•» > constructive addition to the debate on vio- Commission^ ------5 S i X £ > Implicated police in ™lence «m plete whl«w anUgtv The Amnesty report said in spite of MthematoTif not the major, antago- President F W de Klerk's promises to take ^ S S ! S t S P - Kotze said it ignon* £ T £ lic e out of politics, the poK* had the fact that policemen were victims oi continued their "war against the ANC and allied organisations”. Government ha " S a and the KwaZulu poUce were been slow to act against policemen despite also heavily criticised in the report Ita ^ o S £ £ d the Bophuthatswana gov^nment "rs s iT s u * .a.* *■* of violent coercion and said there was strong suggestion authorities in the hom 1~1 T o P W 2 □ From P«B« Amnesty report , ooo u , o » ! » « “S j J S J S ? £ tinued the fight against those they '‘^SS'SSSi^is^- z s & jsszsssssgz 33553555^5S e t to independent inquuy. When there 5 oaicS a * * * b ^th e ^S iM and army had emerged. homwred bv violence and marked Dy ANC spokesman Carl Nlehaus said ves- act on their conclusions, terdav the report confirmed “our concerns, cial failure “rare example of OneexrepUon was to e ^ ^ P ^ , of over SAP complicity in the vi°l«>ce . ■> A Bophuthatswana government spokes-, E*TSS man described the report as “nonsense .. SSLS to court seven policemen accused i«L%^4--' ■ - llJteiii# I »•;• - W u ^ - A i^ i J ^ m;-v" -i»: ; ■t::::x.s&$g,;s:-'z::'--:^-y ••.••?.-": ■:•■;:•-■ ■ r-:fUt;;;• •*•••»:.■»..%•-•.•.• jft •/f:7j.:i-.••■.*?.••••. .;-V,;;-.\* Sv2?r7 .:' -•i,-' :•*•• • ... .' :. - ■ 7' ' * - - * V- i'- /- ■"/-'tQSi-iVi.' - rr^5-*^ -‘ c~ ^ 7 ~ iSi p t ^ FWW , •■ C-* J <. .’jfii& SiW * *iir.* **-• - ••»>' •'• . Jwjbitwi. J “ l l 1 ' STRANGE men befriended unem headed by Captain AG. du Plessis who go to ployed activist Daniel Kolisang, extraordinary lengths to keep their activities put a blanket over his head and secret, including using false names, fictitious drove him to a house where he was companies and false licence plates. - offered m o n ^to MU ANO officials. And we have discovered that Kolisang was Following a six-week investigation, The not the only visitor to be brought to the house with a blanket over his head... Veekfy M ail has tracked down both the house Full dotailss PAGES 2 & 3 ind the men. They are a group of policemen THE WEEKLY MAIL EXPOSES A MYSTERIOUS The police plotters and the / £ Wetkiv M ail has uncovered T s top-secret South African PolPolice base linked to the plan ning ol assassinations in the Vaai area.nir , in breach of the law and (he SAP’s own roles, the operation used falsely- registered page numbers, fictitious company names and lalse registration plates as a cover for its activities. •me discovery, one outcome of an hierirehy. Intensive six-week investigation. „ follows assurances bv Law and comes against the backdrop ot a silent 0nJer Ministry spokesman Brigadier war against leaders and activists of the L,-Qn Mellet. in an interview w ith African National Congress and its ABC news this week, that covert allies in the Vaal. involving assassina- po|mcai operations bv the S AP nao MUIO.lions. on -houses,------kidnappings ' ' “ ,* 3^ . “In the past, there were the so- and various torms ot harassment, t bee called covert political investigations accompanying story) Those have ceased totally, but total The trail to the "sale house" began ly.’' he said. Stressing that the police with a sworn statement bv Sebokeng "had to comply with the law", he also ANC member Daniel Kolisang in told A BC the police would not con January this year. Kolisang savs that ceal ------their activities by using talsely with his head covered, ne was taken to rcgKtered page and telepnone num- ihe house, where a while man called ^ e ^ “ B r ia n " offered him weapons training Through reliable sourcing and and money 10 carrv out petrol bomb patienl detective w ork, we nave attacks against A N C and South m ^ e d the “safe house loanunnum- African Communist Party leaders and bered p|0t in Riet Street. Kosashol. At left Warrant Officer . «v~ ^ nearVande*.,lpark.Alanle.«ngle. - • —* *- *~—vn cipturtO from io MK cwri, I1MI » - imis, wno was m cnarga ot tne The Weekly M ail has since estab storey dwelling standing between lished that numerous people were houses on plots 176 and 183, it is sacral oaaa conducted to and from the house in understood to be on plot 177 the same wav. An affidavit bv anoth Although a number ot operatives By DREW FORREST _er______man describes a substantially simi have______moved in recent months, we lh„are THE labha were luraed oa lar “visit" to a house in the Vaal area. also in a position to name all the ine s tc 9 n t; policemen thissrsur 'Doorstepped' cops lar “visit” to a house in the V aai area, where he too was promised trainingingto to policemen based at the house at the -A a o ru tppeti’' at tbeir bomesbon by T h e carry oul attacks. Details will bee pro- lime Kolisang was taken there. Weekly MMad. aU . ibeirtheir repeal*repealed. anxious Mkw..e.w> o ..,a » re ^ was: my vided in our next edition. Heading the operation was Captain demaad - »*“ Where - did yoa get U W I — ----- — One of his targets, kolisang says, AAG U oudu rPlessis. i« a i> . -a former security address?” ZZZZttSZX SZ landlord Midsaid behe tScagoitheagol badhad po«dpoeed as was ANC memoer and South African p i e m a n workingirking ffor the Criminal Quinert OB the connection wnn a an insurance acenL know Kolisaag — evea whea the lal- be a go said be knew nothing of a _Council______ot Churches fieldworker Saul j nvcsugation_____ ServicServices (CIS), who. secret police ba»* ae«r Vanderbilt- said: -T h is is park, they reacted with fury or an ter. sprang on him secret bouse. He said he jj*e" _Tsotetsi.______who ../orwas killed in a crrcnaOCgrenade ,^w>F,iin« accoru,rn! in to a arm credit ilt bureau report, is adamant refusal to answer questions. Mike.” kolisang as onlv bis “handler": tbe based at Vereemging police station. He also claimed lo know aolhtng of blast In March. I See accompanying They look particular exception to former bad provided information Other suit were Lieutenant A i van a secret base. Bui queMioned on the story). It has been esublished lhat the what one described as the -stealing over a two-vear period abont "tbe der Orvp. a Lieutenant Snvman. links between the sale house aad vio investigating oiticer in the Tsotetsi ot photographs- African National Congress, Paa case. Warrant-Officer Thys Nolle, Warrant-Officer Thys Nolte. Travcilini first to the Sebokeng lence. his mask slipped: -You tell me Afncanisi Congress. weapons «^ch«5 what happened when we met al lhat worked at the "safe house early this Sergeant AG Steenkamp. Sergeant home* of sergeant JK.R heago lalias and a ttack s on poiicem en , be house!11 he demanded of koUsann George frederik Supra. Sergeant “Oupa” I and Constable Johannes year. Seago’s reaction was more ptain- claimed. Jacques van Wvk. Warranl-Otticer Mkwaae lalias “Mike"l. we look wilh The eext m lht waa the turn of the Our expose, brought to the attention uve — he repeatedly complained we Joseph Moagi. Sergeant JK R Seaeo. us Daniel Kolisang. the Sebokeng white security policemen - J It of police this week, has sparked a ket- were being “unfair” and refased lo activist who savs Ihe two policemea became snrpnswf ly ctenr from their fuffle ai the highest levels of the SAP Constable Johannes Maioe, allow Kolaaag lalo Ihe h o w where Constable PJ Zimba and Constable drove him to the -safe house ’, where reactions tbat their two black col- he was offered money to carry oul be rents a room JohannesMianiM -Mkwane------E T e " * .^ ” the .elehhoarhood lea.ues had not reponed the. The police reply The Weekly M oil investigation -attacks.------.. POUCE are dealing with T h t Strongly suggests that the security ^ Tshehla Moisane. responsible to WmMv MaiIs m oom ot a Merit police coniinue lo act much as they The p0sl box is held by Prosec ^ ^ K la b |lshed killing people in JohannKOurg an police ooaranon In Veal “** ° * always have, despile Iheir disbanding Consultants, of 14 Houlkop Street. ■ sergeant J KR Seago, implicated in sabotaging Sasol. Whe hiqnaet levaT. invo4vtnq th# min and absorption mto the CIS amid vereemging - ^ e address. ™ * « KoHsan,icpucdina, n e a i ^ k ^ istry, vw eomimeeeoner and a nao- niuchfantare las. vear Wrr*/vAfu./hasesub i s ^ . o U sale n, mc 1S Consu 0 lC "S ^e c h . he was ^ .e d io « m e n W M police wara aooroaeHad T h e Rosashot safe house IS con- house previously used by th Jonannes Mkwa[K. „vinKai I90 to ne his gtrltnend, a certain ^atshidiso •bout tn« unormauon earlier tru* c e a l e d behind a blanket of intense Vereemging police. Sebokeng. When confronted by w h o was secretary of the A N C m l n cmeen a ttwry ot aettvlty. secrecy. Five policemen known to The WeekJv M ail has leamt that ^ WeekW Mal| Mkwane initially Sebokeng branch, Nona ot ttia iiHJIviOuale Involved rave worked there were conironted at was s.anaard practice to conduct The W w k lv ^ U V Ik w a n e Acco, d ing to Kolisang. he w wot*d talk to m praaa. andat least onaoliliepoacnanaivotvedeiepl their homes this week and either ,ownship "contacts lo^ " d tto ™ a i ihe house. Kolisangsavs. he was asked to establish the precise addre m y tram hie noma lor a n»S"»® denied, or retused to confirm or deny, R o s a s h o f with their heads covereif JUK,loned in the presence of "Ouoa” ofanum berof M K metnoets. tnclu •void nHting WftKir Utl1 its enistence. A vehicle search has shown mat a „ an in pia,n ,ng "Speech". HUph, Molatu anc UpartBI The reaction of these policemen — car u s e d bv o n e o f the policemen. himself “Brian” T he certain “Ntianvana .as well as of t Anomsr.wnohadsiaMdtomaet in one instance extreme aggression with the registration number ^ ^ " ^ '.'.b f .s h e d that ANC s ass.sl.nl PWV sec,eta • m om r. i uromrt wo maetino and in all cases a Hat retusal to answei NWM ItSIT. is officially registered to who liv e s al 22 Casaria Bavumile VilakaztandEvatonSA' called lo Pretoria to oiacuea tn« key questions — is also suggestive. ",^g rr^a,,e CACV_U»I»V in*,...—------Martin Nkonkoto and “Comra mm w" ■ ■ v—---—-- __ Alter we doorsleprcd Steenkamp s safe house and used the code-name wm B«ng imm win al via Mffwt Vereemging Hat on Wednesday and company. Phvllis”. He was also asked ab« Kolisang's detailed statement, “Bnan". found only his wife in. he look flight Kolisang says “ Brian” began the Saul Tsotsetsi. $ Nona o< ma oolicwnan irwotiwd made to lawyers in January inis year, Also of interest to “ Brian were and is known to have slept elsewhere. interview bv staling that he knew he approacnad by Thm WaMlv Hall matches in every particular the ver marshals at the funeral vigil c Ihla waa* oetwl nnoawuoa oiew A paging service paid tor bv one ot (Kolisangl was an ANC Youth sion ot events he gave The W eekly woman named “ Babv , an allei the officers. Supra, is registered to M League and South African M a il two months later- Insotar as we who died suddenly II was put to tnam. Moat ratarrod Jawa of Prosec Consultants at 2b Communist Hariv memoer and that he MK cadre have been able to venfv Ms claims, it mvstenouslv in Decemoer last s ouenae to “official cftannala'. Wilge Street Vandertwlpark. A com was looking tor a job. Whan ina manar waa pul lor has proved almost whollv reliable to kolisana. brian ; pany search has revealed that the nas— ~~— kolisanc savs he was then closelv A ccordine -- ___ commant to Law and Order company is fictitious, while its statement. Kolisang savs ne Mini net ry apoaaaman Caotam |„ his quouonedaboulexecutivememoeis "Babv” had been pois Cralq Kotia. he aaid tbe police "address" is that ot a Besler tamily. was befriended bv a man called ot the A N C and SACP in the Vaal. accompanying story would ralar the mattar lo me who say thev have never heard oi ~Oupa" who claimed lo work lor and about memoers ot the A N C ’s Kohsang savs^ Goldatone inquiry into violence jawaorriroec,Jawa or Prosec. “ Delta Insurance". O n a P'om^ '“ ,rmea wing Umkhomo weSizwe, him R5 Utxi to carry oui i* Prosec Consultants crops up in emp|ovment.employment. "Oupa"O upa and anotheranoih rcturnM m m cx„e. a iu ck s on Ihe houses o l Tsol anotner context: a car assoc.aied with m a n Mike asked wl^ an(i he wls to Vilakazi. S,lhole._ Nkonk otwortdnawnntna MncnNaaonal calling himself Commas m a u n wmq.umknonto the secret operation, with the regisua- K o l i s a n g to lie on theback seat o fa >(xnaln-speech", whom be “Com rade P h v llis . Spee wjawn on tfw ntorv nod onsnng „ o n number R B S 9 1 6 T . has been car with h » head coveredname^as an M K m ember, D avid •T0 PAGE6 brtbssot R5 0 ooo®poaoamsn» iraced to PO Box 2867 Vereemging. htm on January 2 to an undisclosed THE WEEKLY MA COVERT OPERATION secret base Angry reactionT op, Sergeant JKR Seago. alias Oupa, and, below. Constable Johannes Nkwane, alias 'Mike' react with fury, anxiety we have traced the page number tants— the fictitious ------encounters with The Weekly Mail. given to Kolisang at the safe house, company to which the service is Captain Andnes du Plessis. who in was a different proposition. Told we rcEistered — was his private busi Januarv was in charge of the safe security^-" were from The Weekly Mail, he ness. “What a policeman does with house, refused to allow us into his grille — and ordered us oft his property, at 71 his own time is his affair.” he said. home at 66 Senator Rood Avenue. to be “an ordi Beethoven Street, Vanderbijlpark. By this stage, we could sense invis Duncanville, inststuie on conducting nary detective”. and threatened us with a trespass ible telephones shrilling throughout theinterview through his front-door the Vaal: at our next port of call. 17 The man at the centre of tl charge. drama. Sergeant AG Steenkam security grille- . When a photograph was taken of FlufTtail Street. Falcon Ridge, He was composed, reasonablv civil Lieutenant Arthur van der Gryp said whom Kolisang says interviewed hi __ and utterly uncommunicative. him. he furiously started towards our at the sate house, was sot at hor photographer, but checked himself. he knew we were from The Weekly saying only that he was a former when we called, although his w Later, in a lengthy wrangle in the Mail before we bad volunteered the secunrv policeman who now worked was. street he conceded he worked for the information. for the Crim inal Investigation When we returned two hours lat CIS and was based at the The fact that he was specifically Services (CIS) and that he did not the llal was in darkness. Accordiai Vereeniging police station — a piece warned of our impending visit rather know kolisang. On the "safe house”, the security guard at the flats, i of informauon be initially refused to undermines his claim to know noth he was non-committal, referring us to ing of the safe house — “That hap Steenkamp family slept elsewh. police media liaison. give. that n i g h t . ______Supra did not denv the page num- pens only in books.” he said from Sergeant George Supra, to whom r Hi S i ______. .. - ______a . ______The police plotters and their base has established that these are traced, via the lulse company and address, to The Weekly M ail •F ro m PAGE 2 the axle names of Vaal M K members recently Supra, who works for the CIS and whom The “Ntjanyana” and Molalu. It was stressed to him, back from exile. he says, that it was essential to kill “Speech . • Weekly M ail knows was based at 177 Rosashof. An ordinary township resident with Sid 9 educa “Speech’s” real name is Moise (not I le was allegedly given details of the type of “Moisane”, as in Kolisang's affidavit) and The ret nil bombs required— using a “lappie , rather tion, Kolisang would not have been able to dis Weekly Mail has met and knows the name, than being sealed and shaken — and when he cover who pays the page account such infor address and telephone numlwr of “Ntjanyana.” said he did not know how lo make these, he was mation is confidential and can only be accessed “Speech's” girlfriend is indeed the Sebokeng lold the bomljs would be supplied He was also by s|xcial investigative techniques. told, he says, lie would l>e provided with ‘cloth •S te e n k a m p , who was based at 177 secretary of the ANC. •7 /ie has established that Mike ing for protection”. Rosashof, has admitted lo the Weekly Mail that Weekly M ail Kolisang says he was asked to sif?n a form his code-name was “Brian”. Kolokolo, whom “Brian” said would provide stating his name, ID number, the R5 0(KJ pay •K olisang said “Mike” drove a powder blue firearms training, is a sergeant in the Sebokeng ment and his axle name, “Patrick Khumalo . Toyota Corolla, a claim confiimed by other municipal police living in Debonair Park, next lo I le was also offered, he claims, firearms train sources After Kolisang repotted to the AN C — the De Deur police station. ing at the hands of a certain Mike Kolokoto, a development quickly discovered by the police Kolokolo, whose Selx>keng house was burnt attached to the De Deur police station I his __ the car was moved to another operational down in 1990, is said to have close links with the would I* conducted at a location near Rust-der- area, sources say. security police, lie is also said to be thick as Vaal, which “ Brian” suggested was a shooting •K olisang says lliat despite having his head thieves” with the Inkalha-linked occupants of a range. covered, he could determine that (he safe house rented by Ihc kwaZulu government next Kolisang says he was taken to the house on house" had a double garage on ils left side and one further occasion, where a dale and ren door lo his, at 4 Alida Street. ga rn roof. Plot 177 R o s a s h o f h a s such a garage Among these occupants is a certain dezvous was set for the attacks — the night of and green guttering. On his way there, he over January 17 He was given a page number with “ Ndamara” Clionco, convicted last year in the heard one of the policemen say he was going “to which to contact “Mike”: (01 )331 -3561 or (016) Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court of the posses the place of the peaches” — the house liasa large 312861, ctxle 4427. sion of unlicensed firearms, and linked by peach oi chard. These details were given by | I le did not make the planned rendezvous, activists to numerous attacks in the area. Kolisang l>efore he was shown the liouse by The instead re|X)rting his experience to the ANC. Kolokoto — who this week strongly denied H ie following aspects of Kolisang s story Weekly Mail. giving weapons training to anyone — was not •Several of the activists mentioned by check out, leading Tlie Weekly M ail to believe known lo Kolisang before the latter s encounter “ Brian” were unknown to Kolisang before their his account is true: with “Brian”. •T h e page number he was given has been meeting, including “Speech” and “Ntjanyana”. Police Exposed ‘censor’ C am paign for Open Media (COM) organiser jeanette Min critical nie said the censorship was in response to the spate of ngor- ous investigative journalism ol story; the past few months which exposed police complicity in THE government this week crimes ranging from political introduced new censorship manipulation to murder. measures when it blocked the Meanwhile, New Nation Vrye Weekblad (VTVB) from learned this week that there are publishing a "damaging" sto no guarantees that tax-payers ry about police. will recover their money that In a move that VWB editor the state spends on defending Max du Preez described as sim criminal policemen. ilar to the gagging of the press New Nation wanted to know under the state of emergency, how much was spent on the police successfully applied defending the Tmst Feed mas for an interdirt to block publi sacre policemen Brian Mitchell, cation of stories about them David Khambuie, Dumisane selves. Ndwalane. Khehla Ngubane Meanwhile, police withdrew and Thabo Sikhosana. a similar application for an Police said: “This is an inter interdict against the WeeWv Mail nal matter and we decline to after the paper gave an under divulge information for publi taking not to identify police- cation purposes." | men involved in hit squad • THE Klerksdorp police operations. who recently dropped the "This is a great indictment of Section 205 subpoena against the government. Instead of New Nation's editor and polit state president FW de Klerk act ical correspondent ordering ing against the rotten elements them to reveal the names of in the security forces, the gov their sources for a story relat ernment has moved to gag the ing to taxi wars, this week messenger," Du Preez said. served the newspaper's source Police moved to gag the VWB _ Kortman Majekane - with soon after it approached them a similar order. I for comment on allegations But Majekane said he 1 relating to their activities. Du would not tell the police any 1 Preez said the best way to avoid thing and would rather give being gagged was to avoid ask i evidence before the Goldstone ing police for comment. I Commission. The "gagging" came after law and order minister Hemus Kriel announced in parliament that steps would be taken - including bannmgs - against the publication of "unsubstan tiated" allegations against the police. S I write, scores nt policemen ANC activist he was out to smear the — whom I may not idcntirv or police? photograph — are sittine in kolisang had no idea who he was secret bases across the country Police could be using dealing with, and his statement retlects —A i mav not disclose their location — this. It was The Weekiv MaiL through doins heaven Knows what. long and patient mduirv. wnich estab At least one ot them. I am con lished the police connection vinced. has ottered a township contact Every aspect ot koiisang s state money to carry out netroi bomb attacks YOUR number plate ment we have followed has been veri on the houses of African National fied: the existence of fhe secret house, Congress leaders and activists in me the code-name ot ms handler, me page Vaal. A secret police network — number police gave mm. the activists The network, police admitted to The lilt # na»tD«nv//fGuantanw«eUv he was asked about manv not known details o f which the press has W eekiv M ad in court last week, is built to him. Only one detail, the SAP would around the systematic use ot fraudu been forbidden to re\>eul — have us believe, is fabricated: that he lent vehicle registration numbers and uses innocent citizens weeklymail was ottered weapons training, and fictitious companies. asked to commit violence. Yours mav be among the false addresses, ID and telepnone ij III ^ 1 ^1 Interestingly. Sergeant **S" gives no addresses and identity numbers thev numbers ana car registration srr account in the coun documents of his use to register their pagtne services and plates. From secret oases they meeting with kolisang. Hisonlvofter- telephone lines. Y our car numner piate i SBSff ing is a highly implausible claim that may appear on one oi their vehicles — carry out certain missions. after The Weekiv M ail blew hts cover, The Weekiv M ad knows ot several The report he received teiepnone tnreats in broken Bv DREW FORREST cases where law-abioine individuals English, apparently from a black man. and firms have been abused in this The good sergeant s number is not way. check the title deeds? How is the pro xdice /__. listed in the pnone book, and The Curiously, The Weekiv M ail's tection ot informers served bv this, and W eekiv M a il was unanie to establish it expose ot me nationwide weo ot secret bv registering pnone numoers to non The man wno tnreatened mm must police bases has created more oi a stir existent companies? have considerably more resources than anroad than at home — even last Insiders sav tne network is hidden his nroken Englisn suggests. lied / Efl week's supreme court action, brougnt iiiiiiillm The "handler ot tne second man even rrom other memoersot the force. by the South African Police to block Indeed, one must assume that even who was contacted bv tne network, the disclosures, and which ultimately Law and Order spokesman Oeneral to stop~~'|g and allegediv promised weapons train forced The Weeklv M ail lo delete Leon Mellet was unaware ot it: he ing. is more forthcoming. Warrani- details ot alleged police misconduct. recently assured an American TV net Officer “N" admns in nis affidavit that Police accuse us ot htowmc the lid work that the use ot false licence plate* he asked Sollv Mngomezutu whether on a legitimate under-cover crime-pre- was "probably not permissible" and he had received military training, and venuon operation from “political" that ponce would never use falsely reg S S iiliH continues: motives. Their account is that the net istered page and pnone numbers “ I decided to use him as a 'talent work was created at the height of the The distinct impression is thaf the * ® s spotter*. This decision was mainly State of Emergency in 11 regions verv existence ot the network, and of based on the tact that he nad received across the country to gather informa those wno serve i l is w hat police w isn Last weens Weekfv Mail, prevented from puousning pnoiograpns or no military training and could there tion — and specifically to provide to conceal — not the identify of names ot ponce, displayed blank spaces instead fore Pe used lo identity people in the “safe houses where police "handlers' intormcTS. crime world, and particularly those ered. For a far-right security police could meet their informants. The SAP affidavit claims the net involved in the umawiul trattic and man. whose professional Iite nas oeen Since then, claims me police affi work concerns itself with individuals, Accord reconsidered smuggling ot arms. THE Weekiv M ail’s revelations devoted toe nie-or-oeath struggle with davit pul before the supreme coun last not organisations. But statements by One hopes tne Goldskme Commis about secret police bases and the the A N C . this must present a sore week, it had been re-orientated awav two men whom the network tried lo sion can make sometnmg ot this \ e w N atio n t disclosures about the temptation irom surveillance of organisations to recruit — thev sav. to commit violence impenetrable statement involvement of military officials in In a conservative stronghold like the W arram Office: “N" ikmes pn>mi\- that of individuals, and from a — reflect the obsession of their myste the assassination ot government “counter-revolutionary perspective to rious "handlers" with the A N C. the Vaal. tne dangers are magnified. Given ing Mngomezuiu training, but he also opponents have placed a quesuun the spate ot mvstenous killings, abduc a concern wun spiralling valence and South African Communist Partv. and mark over the National Peace denies that tne page numner he gav tions and harassment in the area, we cnme. in particular Umkhonto webizwe Accord tNPAl. the latter could be traced lo the nt doubt the uncovering ot a secret ponce This raises more uuestions tnan it We know tn>m a nonce source th.it This week African National work s neaduuarters. How docs he "crime prevention network has left answers. I nc impression given is that the network has at least one informer in Congress PW V officials and other think we found the neadduaners build ANC activists feeling more secure. all crime falls within tne network's Shell House, the ANC s Jonannesourg organisations announced that thev ing? We can. it ne cares to meet us. ambit. Indeed, a hair-raising catalogue headouarters were reconsidering their participa The ponce response to tne incrimi give precise details ot tne trail we fol of soaring crime appended to the The absurd taste tor the cloak and tion is NPA structures. nating statements ot the two "recruits lowed. via a fictitious company and a police affidavit, designed to impress dagger and tne single-minded focus on They slammed the attempts bv is interesting. Commissioner Johan kibler Park post box. on the nidge tne importance ot the net formations ot the left — nowhere in police to stop publication of the sto van der Merwe confirms that Sebo- The Warrant Officer aiso savs he is work. but it anything highlignts its our investigations did we encounter ries. “That in itself was a violation of keng activist Daniel kolisang was attached to the Crime Intelligence ineffectiveness, and even relers to a any sign ot interest in Inkalha and its the accord.” said Democratic Party interviewed at the Vanderbnlpark sate Service in Soweto — we know from snarp increase in fraud well-documented role in the Vaal vio spokesman Rupert Lonmer. house and asked to gather information insiders that it is based at the headquar But another appendix lists successes lence — convince us that this is the — but dismisses his claims to have ters building in soutnern Johannes and bv the exclusiveness of fhe han- ot the Vanderbnlpark "sate house — security police, officially disbanded been offered monev to throw petrol burg. Later in his affidavit he blows dler-mtormer relationship and 9U percent ot these relate to arms, but continuing to operate with vast bombs as "devoid ot truth”. the gaff bv revealing that he was at the Intelligence sources this week told and specifically arms caches. The resources and separate personnel and How does he know! Because koli H O when The Heeklv M ail overflew that the abuse of question arises: why is there a need for command structures The Weeklv M ail sang s handler . Sergeant "S" (we are the building in a helicopter wmle tak coven operations bv the ultra-ngnt was a parallel, covert arms tracing opera The official purpose ot the network prevented bom naming mm), crossed ing pnoiograpns tion when "f irearms units . operating is not the central issue: what counts is "possible, even probable '. his heart and gave nis word? In so sea In the southern Transvaal region of openly from police stations, exist for not wnat operatives are supposed to ne Network operatives can be tusiili- soned a law eniorcer. such faith in hu tne secret police web. we have two precisely this purpose / doing, but what tnev are m tact doing ablv confident that nothing thev tell man goodness is positively touching. statements implicating operatives in And whv uie obsessive secrecy? We Networks wmch operate in such their townsnipcontacts will ever return Sergeant “S" has a clear reason tor the planning oi violence. But there are have evidence that the purcnase of the deep shadow are a heaven-sent oppor to haunt them: their identities are con lying, but what is kousang s motive? 10 other regions, presumably staffed network s southern I ransvaal head- tunity tor tar-nght elements in the cealed behind code-names, their cars That we paid him R50 (XX)— as ludi bv an arm v ot SAP officers, rmnv with uuaners bv the Department of Public security forces to pursue a private are talseiv registered, the location of crously suggested bv Law and Order tne same background, world view and Works was fraudulentiv concealed — agenda. Thev are in tact doublv insu "sate houses ‘ is hidden even from spokesman Craig kotze — even work habits. who in his right mind, other than an lated from the public gaze and public informants, who are conducted to and though ms statement was made before How are tnev spending your and mv investigative reporter, would want to accountability: by me operation itself. from secret trysts with their neads cov we knew ot his existence? Thai, as an taxes? © of this by “sharpening violent *ttacks These include “special operations”, rrom neighbouring states*. over the past year. implemented -execution of Comops (communica It reflects a concern lhat peace The document reflects a lack or tions operations)", of rnaintenance negotiations taking place: In faith in the government’s reaction forces, avoperaUon with the Mozambique and Angola could go strategy and states that the aim South African Police, “maximum use badly for South Africa and com the enemy” is to “take «*er the gov of force multipliers” and the ‘ mainte Force see the African National pound problems for the country ernment of the KS A through n i d a nance of buffer zones < Congress, and other anti government tions, whilst retaining the ability to It also explicitly states the need to local negotiations M l , . groups, as an “enemy” to he coun “The process of negotiations in violently overthrow the government . intervene in independent tered by military-style operations that Mozambique and Angola, as ^eU as Tlie “enemy” is listed as: where the ANC has established a Include the deployment of the anny •H igher command: South African strong presence and to participate in the socio-economic and security situa tlons in the various so-called Communist Party offices in the Joint Intelligence Centre— a m - SP|t slyK^Dcfipite the government s Itary unit that co-ordinates the work Frontline States, will determine the reform initiatives which are part of nature and extent of the deptoynent of all security forces in the homelands the political strategy en route to the so of defensive conventional forces in the Johannesburg and its regional offices. and South Africa. called ‘New South Africa elements or •T he Pan Africanist Congress. The plan says theforees available forces continue to threaten good to deal with the ANC include he order and the welfare of the RSA by •T h e Congress of South African police, air force, navy, rianklng claims by dissident military «" e»i- means of violence, intimldat on and Trade Unions. groups”, regional services councils eence mmjor Nlco Basson that the socio-economic retnigreskmlnonltr •Security Force traitors. and municipalities. SADF has a sophisticated plan to The operation plan lists the m - A second military document notes Interfere in political Process‘ * 'Kszsrsstm g tary forces and tasks that need to be lhat constitutional changes taking throughout southern Africa by detailed plan to undermine the ANC carried out in order undermine the olace in South Africa have a good undermining radical movements through military operations! — was ANC a n d to ensure that the enemy chance of failing and that resistance there. drawn up early In >99 ,- J h e P' intelligence capabilities - be avowed, organisations will take full advantage forms a blueprint for a series of war misled or neutralised . like actions that would have been SADF denies unit was behind deaths EAST LONDON — The I Own Caw—buSwW \ was implicated in the Gon SADF confirmed yesterday iwe document as allegedly others. suggesting the “removal" that a unit called “Ham It is understood the in mer” — allegedly behind of Goniwe and two others. vestigating team is “very An anonymous caller the 1985 killing of four Cra- interested" in the Hammer dock activists — was de told the Daily Dispatch allegations. Hammer was behind other i ployed in the area from SADF spokesman Col “time to time”. political assassinations in John Rolt said yesterday the region and had operat However, it denied that Hammer had not been de ed in Umtata. the unit was behind the ployed in the Cradock area murders of Matthew Gon A conscript alleged permanently, but. like oth Hammer operatives were iwe. Fort Calata, Sparrow er units, backed up the SAP Mkonto and Sicelo MhlaulL stationed at Cradock in there from tune to time. about September 1988. An investigation into the Hammer was formed in deaths was re-opened on in 1984 at Eastern Province Asked about Hammer's structions from President Command by then com activities in Umtata. Rolt F W de Klerk after disclo manding officer Gen CP said it was not military sures of a document pro van der Westhuizen. now policy to discuss details of posing the “permanent re SADF chief of staff (intelli operations, deployment of moval” of Goniwe and two gence). Van der Westhuizen troops or force levels. np\ t Servicem en absolved Own Cemspondwit CAPE TOWN — Three national servicemen, con victed and sentenced to 18 months in detention for conspiring to disclose “dirty tricks” used by the SADF against the End Con scription Campaign, have i been cleared by the Appel- i late Division. j Chief Justice. Judge MM Corbett, with four other judges concurring, found that the men had been tried by a court martial which was "fatally flawed and constituted a nullity”. The court made the find ing after the SADF’s coun cil of review. Brig A K de Jager and Col M Dempers, appealed against a full bench decision of the Cape Supreme Court which set aside the proceedings of the court martial, the conven ing authority and the coun cil of review. On February 4 1988. Hein Monnig. Pieter Reinhard Pluddeman and Desmond William Thompson were convicted by court martial of having conspired to dis close secret information to the ECC. 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