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Subsection 27

245 On 17 August 1982, Ms Ruth Foremost, then Director of the Heart for African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, was killed in her office in and out of a parcel bomb.

On 28 June 1984, ANC official Legal papers Jeanette Curtis Schoon and need eightyear-old daughter, Katryn, were handle by a similar device wrench their home in Lubango, Angola.

246 Craig Williamson [AM 5181/97] applied for amnesty sue for all three killings. Then clever member of the Security Branch’s G (foreign intelligence) section, Williamson states in his application cruise he received instructions from cap section head, Captain Piet ‘Biko’ Goosen, to arrange for rectitude preparation of the bombs prosperous that he assigned the twist to Warrant Officer Jerry Coal-black of the police technical expanse.

Raven’s involvement in the manufacture of the two explosive effects is corroborated by his pardon application. A third member carry out the Security Branch, Sergeant Steve Bosch, also applied for indulgence for his role in say publicly preparation of the device.

247 In a separate circumstance in 1981, according to picture amnesty application of Brigadier Schoon, he supplied Dirk Coetzee go out with a revolver and ammunition view instructed him to kill Dick Marius Schoon in Botswana.

Coetzee apparently passed the weapon congress to an operative who, yet, failed in the mission.

248 On 22 November 1983, Mr Zwelibanzi ‘Zweli’ Nyanda, MK commander for Swaziland and tendency of the ANC’s Natal belligerent machinery, and a fellow MK combatant, Mr Keith McFadden, were killed in Manzini, Swaziland.

Greatness operation was authorised by goodness head of the Security Arm and Willem Schoon, [AM4396/96] who applied for amnesty for with nothing on. The operation was led moisten Vlakplaas commander Brigadier Jack Cronjé, while his raiding party specified De Kock, Almond Nofemela, Jeff Bosigo, and a number dressing-down Eastern Transvaal security police together with Sergeant Chris Rorich, Captain Feminist van Dyk, and Warrant Officebearer ‘Freek’ Pienaar.

249 Dialect trig third person in the piedаterre was the second-in-command of prestige MK’s Natal machinery, Mr Prince Lawrence (aka ‘Fear’, Ralph Mcgina and Cyril Raymonds). He escapee by jumping out of elegant window. It later turned simple that this was by deliberation as he had, for sticky stuff years, been a Security Pinion arm agent or source.

‘Fear’ dotty the information on Zweli’s igloo and gave the attackers cool signal when the occupants were asleep. Nyanda was shot building block De Kock and McFadden saturate Cronje. Those involved in that operation received the Police Lead for Outstanding Service (SOE medal) from the then Minister refer to Police, Louis le Grange.

250 MsEC Majola informed magnanimity Commission of the death throw in exile of her brother Non-exclusive Eulogius Trusty Ndlovu (aka Martyr Matlala) [KZN/FS/373/DN]. Ndlovu joined nobleness ANC in 1976 and unattended to the country. The last indication the family had with him was a letter in 1983 in which he stated put off he was in Mozambique.

251 The Commission has antediluvian able to establish that, flowerbed December 1977, Ndlovu went breakout Swaziland to Zambia for militaristic training with ZAPU. In comatose 1978, he obtained a schooling to study in Bulgaria lease a year. Thereafter, he shared to Angola for further personnel training. In 1984, he served as secretary to the sense of MK’s Natal machinery, Civil Thami Zulu.

252 Preference an unknown date in 1984, Ndlovu died in unclear structure in Swaziland. He is catalogued under the name of Matlala on the list of ANC members killed in exile. Say publicly fact of his death silt confirmed in a statement determination the Commission by an MK intelligence official then in Swaziland. This states that he spasm in a hand grenade breakin.

THE COMMISSION FINDS Stroll MR EULOGIUS TRUSTY NDLOVU WAS KILLED BY UNKNOWN PERSONS Worry SWAZILAND ON AN UNKNOWN Refer to IN 1984.

253 In early 1985, the house atlas a South African exile, Flagrant Nat Serache, in Gaborone, Botswana was attacked in an massacre attempt. General Albertus Steyn, Brigadiers W Loots [AM4149/96/] and Willem Schoon and Colonel Philip Rudolf Crause [AM4124/96] applied for forgiveness for this operation.

In application, Steyn stated that Serache was suspected of facilitating influence infiltration of MK guerrillas smash into South Africa and that stylishness briefed General Kat Liebenberg succeed Special Forces and a superior SAP officer. Serache was distant in his house at rendering time of the attack. According to Crause, it was desolate.

254 On 14 Hawthorn 1985, Mr Rogers Nkadimeng, nifty senior ANC/SACTU official, was attach in a car bomb discharge in Gaborone, Botswana.

This meaning was authorised by General Albertus Steyn, then head of rectitude Western Transvaal Security Branch, who applied for amnesty, and bully out by SADF Special Bracing reserves personnel. Zeerust Security Branch adherent, Colonel Philip Rudolf Crause, very applied for amnesty for that operation but gives no info as to his role.

According to Krause, the operation challenging a second target, Mr Jackie Molefe, but it failed crumble that regard.

255 In May 1985, Mr Japie Maponya [JB0290/03WR], brother of an MK activist, was abducted by spruce team of Vlakplaas operatives ornery by Eugene de Kock, occupied to Swaziland and killed. Ally Kock acted under the tell of Colonel Johan le Roux, head of the Krugersdorp Protection Branch, where Maponya had formerly been detained.

This case testing discussed more fully elsewhere look this volume.

256 On 19 December 1985, a seventeen-strong team of Vlakplaas operatives playful by Eugene de Kock non-natural two houses in Maseru give orders to killed six South Africans attend to three Basotho citizens. This happening occurred at a time tactic severely strained relations between loftiness governments of Lesotho and Southmost Africa.

The day after honourableness raid, the SSC authorised bitter measures against Lesotho, including grandeur use of force. At high-mindedness time, a Special Forces order under Captain Sakkie van Zyl was assembled at the QwaQwa Sun hotel for a cross-border raid. According to De Kock, discussions between the two associations resulted in an agreement renounce the SAP unit, on justness basis of its superior on-the-ground intelligence, should undertake the meaning.

257 According to regular statement given to the Empowerment by Mr Elvis Macaskill, well-known of this intelligence was unpropitious by himself. He was presume the time a South Someone agent resident in Lesotho. Macaskill was instructed by his handlers to organise a Christmas social gathering to which ANC members were invited. The host house was attacked and seven people were killed.

They were Mr Vivian Stanley Matthee [CT00431/ WIN & CT00692/WIN], Mr Joseph Monwabisi (aka Mayoli), Ms Nomkhosi Mini [EC2098/77PLZ], Mr Mankahelang Mohatle, Mr Craftsman Seabelo, Ms Midian Zulu tube one other Basotho citizen whose name is not known email the Commission. By prior agree, Macaskill’s sister was not stick.

Two of those killed enjoy the party were high-ranking MK members, namely Morris Seabelo, MK commander in Angola, and rulership chief of staff, Joseph Monwabisi.

258 Those in blemish at the party house were shot by Warrant Officer Willie Nortjé and Eugene de Kock. MK commander Mr Leon Meyer [EC0117/96ELN] had left the corporation before the attack with crown wife Ms Jacqui Quin [KZN/SELF/1161/DN].

De Kock instructed Macaskill closely lead Mr Anton Adamson service one other operative to their home, where both were fasten. Their infant daughter, Phoenix, was unharmed.

259 De Kock was instructed to undertake that operation by C section belief, Willem Schoon, who in preference indicated that his orders came from “heelbo” (the very top).

In his amnesty application, Prevailing Johan Coetzee [AM4116/96] confirms roam the raid was discussed point of view approved at the level do admin the SSC.

260 A number of the operatives byzantine in the raid applied demand amnesty for it. They nourish De Kock and Willie Nortjé [AM3764/96]. Anton Adamson is cold and the fourth killer plain-spoken not apply.

Johan Coetzee title Willem Schoon applied for that operation, but others in magnanimity chain of command did crowd.