Vlakplaas is a farm that served as the headquarters of a counterinsurgency unit working for the apartheid government in South Africa. The counterinsurgency unit took its name from the farm. The unit that operated from there was commanded by Eugene de Kock. Counter-insurgency is the combatting of insurgency, by the government (or allies) of the territory in which the insurgency takes place. ... Petty apartheid: sign on Durban beach in English, Afrikaans and Zulu (1989) Apartheid (meaning separatness in Afrikaans, cognate to English apart and hood) was an enforced system of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948, and was dismantled in a series of negotiations from 1990 to 1993, culminating in democratic... Eugene de Kock was an assassin for the apartheid government in South Africa. ...
Vlakplaas is well known as the site of multiple executions of political opponents of the apartheid government. [1]
The Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) was a covert South African apartheid-era hit squad[1]. Inaugurated in 1986, and fully functional by 1988 it was set up to eliminate anti-apartheid activists, destroy ANC facilities, and find means to circumvent the economic sanctions[1] imposed on that country. ...
PRETORIA -- A former Vlakplaas operative yesterday told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission here that he was instructed to discharge himself from hospital in order to assist with the elimination of a colleague.
Vlakplaas, a farm outside Pretoria, was a security police base during apartheid.
The TRC earlier heard from former Vlakplaas commander Eugene De Kock that Ngqulunga was killed after he had become emotionally unstable and made contact with the African National Congress.
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