Identity area
Reference code
ZA HPRA AG2918-3-3.3-3.3.2-3.3.2.3-3.3.2.3.1
Title
Clippings
Date(s)
- 1976 - 2000 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
Extent20 files
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Name of creator
Archival history
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
The press clippings report on covert activities and organisations, collusion with IFP supporters, alleged South African involvement in the sabotage of aircraft of the Zimbabwean airforce in 1982 at Thornhill air base, and a raid on homes in Gaborone, Botswana. Other reports cover ex-policeman Dirk Coetzees confessions about death squads, the Inkathagate scandal, the Lothar Neethling case in which he sued the Weekly Mail and the Vrye Weekblad for defamation and the 1986 killing of four Chesterville youths. Some reports refer to the Harms and other commissions. See 3.10 for further material.