SAPS Capt Deon Lootz: SAPS Sting Operation Behind Boeremag Coup & Treason Trial

SAPS Capt Deon Lootz: SAPS Sting Operation Behind Boeremag Coup & Treason Trial

A controversial police general headed the crime intelligence unit’s dirty tricks campaign to plant evidence and evesdrop on the Boeremag treason accused and their lawyers, a former officer claims in sworn statement.

Andrea Muhrrteyn | SQSwans | 08 February 2013

The statement claims General Mark Hankel specially flew to America to purchase the bugging devices which were used to unlawfully monitor the conversations between the accused and their legal teams. The revelations of Deon Loots, a former captain in the crime intelligence unit, about the alleged police conspiracy to frame the Boeremag plotters were first broken by Media24 Investigations on October 7. But Loots’ affidavit – which he has confirmed – goes further and names individual officers which he charges are at the centre of the conspiracy. His statements are separately supported by other affidavits by former officers which are in the possession of a Pretoria attorney.

If his claims are true it could lead to the Boeremag trial – the longest, at nine years, in South African history and which cost more than R100m – being declared a mistrial. Loots, who made his statement in August, has investigated the Boeremag for years and was also the handler of the main agent who infiltrated the organisation.

Constitutional expert Prof Pierre de Vos said Loots’ allegations could result in the trial being declared null and void and having to be heard from scratch again. Twenty Boeremag members were found guilty of high treason in July and August. The trial will re-commence in January next year when they could be sentenced to life behind bars.

Hankel made news headlines last year when he headed the crime intelligence unit for a short while after Lt-Gen Richard Mdluli was suspended. Mdluli appointed family members as senior officers in the unit and bought luxury vehicles for himself with money from the secret fund, according to statements by investigators.

It has also been reported that in 2002 Hankel failed two polygraph tests for his security clearance. He denies it. This was during the period when Hankel headed the investigation of the Boeremag project. Loots was married to an officer who also worked on the right wing investigation and who was Hankel’s right-hand. In his statement Loots identified a number of police officers whom he claimed worked under Hankel and were responsible for manipulating the investigation. “The Boeremag was driven, managed, orchestrated and all the planning had been done by these [crime intelligence] members,” said Loots. He said he had been extremely upset by the “provocation role” played by the police. “Innocent people had been inflamed, used and compromised. I had nowhere to complain as the top structure of police intelligence drove and managed these things,” Loots said. Loots said evidence had been fabricated by crime intelligence in order to “make things look much worse.” He said police officers told their agent to organise right-wing meetings. They were instructed what to say at the meetings which would inflame Boeremag members. “I told Hankel continuously that they were busy inciting a crime hoping to involve innocent people. This was laughed away. They were obsessed with the idea to involve as many right wingers as possible,” Loots charged.

Loots said the police wanted to know what was discussed between the accused and their legal teams, so that they could counter the defence. He claimed Hankel flew to America to buy the latest in phone hacking and video equipment. This was allegedly planted in the cells of the accused. Similar equipment was also planted in the consultation rooms where the accused consulted with their legal teams, he claimed. Loots said the visual and audio recordings were beamed to the crime intelligence head office in Erasmuskloof where a so-called “war room” had been established which contained monitors and loudspeakers.

“I personally from time to time watched videos of the accused in their cells. Hankel and others made jokes and laughed. From the start the trial was never fair,” said Loots. He claimed none of the witnesses for the prosecution ever drew up their own statements and that police wrote them so that they corroborated each other. “Thereafter it was returned to the witnesses for it to be signed. They (the witnesses) had to learn it off by heard like parrots,” he said.

Hankel this week said that he was not allowed to talk to the media. The police’s national spokesperson, Colonel Tummi Shai, undertook to respond to the allegations but at the time of going to press she had not responded. The police also undertook to respond to the allegations aired in Rapport last week and did not reply then either.

Afrikaner Blood: White South Africans are either racist or blind....

Survival of the whitest: inside an Afrikaner boot camp

At a right-wing training camp, young South Africans are being trained to fight for their Afrikaner heritage

By Elles van Gelder | Daily Telegraph
9:00AM GMT 18 Nov 2011

Thick clouds of diesel smoke fill the air outside a rundown guest farm, three hours’ drive east of Johannesburg.

As the stench dissipates, a group of boys, aged between 13 and 19, spill from the bed of a rusty truck, lugging huge bags full of military clothing.

'There are old bloodstains on my uniform,’ one of them says, as he trades his trainers for army boots.

Shouted orders ring out. Groaning, the boys raise 15ft tent poles among the cowpats dotting the grassland. The large army tent that they put up will be their home for the next nine days.

South African teenagers often go off to camp during school holidays to learn how to start fires, build huts and identify animal tracks. But this survival camp is different. Here, the focus is on the survival of white South Africans.

Willem Ratte refuses to apply for Bail, to make a Point.

Ratte doesn't want to apply for bail

Oct 11, 2010 2:17 PM
By Sapa, Times Live

Kmdt. Willem Ratte (Wilhelm Friedrich Ratte) at Balmoral

Rightwinger Willem Ratte has decided he will not apply for bail when he and nine other people return to court on preliminary weapons charges on Friday, his lawyer said on Monday.

"He is an angry man. He is not happy with the way that the State acted in this specific case. As far as he is concerned, they are keeping him in custody for no valid reason at all," said his attorney Daan Mostert.

He said it was possible that Ratte was trying to make a point with his decision.

Ratte and nine others made a brief appearance in the Witbank Magistrate's Court on Monday after being arrested during a police raid on his farm.

"Their case was postponed to Friday because some information about the accused still needs to ascertained," said National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga.

Mhaga said Ratte gave no reason to the prosecutors for his decision to abandon bail.

The preliminary charges were possession of dagga and unlicensed firearms.

The 10 were arrested in Balmoral, Mpumalanga, after police received information of a large number of arms and ammunition on Ratte's farm and that people were allegedly receiving military training there.

Freedom for Clive Derby-Lewis Committee Letter to President Zuma

Letter to President Zuma, From: Freedom for Clive Derby-Lewis Committee

BevryClive.co.za; CliveDerbyLewis Blog;
Volkstaat.it; Free Clive Derby Lewis (FB)

Freedom for Clive Derby-Lewis Committee
P.O. Box 690 Rayton
Fax: 086 577 3041
freedomcommittee@gmail.com
7 October 2010

The President of the Republic of South-Africa Mr. Jacob Zuma
Fax: 012 323 3231
cc. Embassies of other nations to South-Africa
cc. The media

Dear President Zuma,

"SOUTH AFRICA" -OR: WHERE SOME ARE "MORE EQUAL" THAN OTHERS: THE CASE OF CLIVE DERBY-LEWIS

Volkstaat.IT: List of Boer Political Prisoners [Clive Derby Levis] :: [Janus Walus] :: [Phil Kloppers] :: [Deon Maartin] :: [Jaco Badenhorst] :: [Callie Meiring (or Carol Meiring?)] :: [Andre Visser] :: [Etienne Visser] :: [Piet Mathews] :: [Nicolaas Clifton Barnard (Cliffie)] :: [Abraham Liebrecht Myburgh] :: [Johannes van der Westhuizen] :: [Daniel Stephanus Coetzee (Stefaans)] :: [Alexander Whitehead] :: [Gerhardus Taljaard] :: [Hans Wessels] :: [Arend de Waal] :: [Ryan Albutt] :: [Willem Jacobs] :: [Ferdi Barnard] :: [Hendrik du Preez] :: [Petrus du Preez] :: [Jan Marius Swanepoel] :: [Christiaan Harmse] :: [Pierre Jacobs] :: [Pieter Willem Nel] :: [Jaun van Wyk] :: [Douglas Schwartz] :: [Ockie de Meilon] :: [Pieter van Heerden Henning] :: [Albertus George van Aswegen] :: [Johan Isak Jacobus Potgieter] :: [Charles Edward Austin] :: [Eugene de Kock] :: [De Wet Kritzinger] :: [Johan Nel] :: [Jaco Bochhardt] :: [Mev Bochardt] :: [De Ru] :: [Horst Lenz] :: [Pieter Groenewald] :: [Douglas Swartz] :: [Bazil Swart] :: [Hannes Steyn] :: [Van Wyk CJ] :: [Mike du Toit] :: [Andre Du Toit] :: [Johan Pretorius] :: [Kobus Pretorius] :: [Wilhelm Pretorius] :: [Vis Visagie] :: [Herman van Rooyen] :: [Rudi Gouws] :: At van Wyk] :: [Rooi Koos du Plessis] :: [Jurie Vermeulen] :: [Tom Vorster] :: [Dirk Hanekom] :: [Kol Giel Burger] :: [Deon vd Heever] :: [Pieter van Deventer] :: [Oom Frik Boltman] :: [Dr Lets Pretorius] :: [Frits Naude] :: [Jacques Jordaan] :: [Jacques Olivier] :: [Ratte Willem] :: [Eugene Becker] :: [Justin Schoeman] :: [Kotze Günther] :: [Corne de Beer] :: [Visser Petrus] :: [Marais Bouwer] :: [Raymond Senekal] :: [Wesley Borman] :: [Christopher Meyer]

1. In May 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first President of "a new South Africa" which would supposedly be "non-racial", "non-sexist" and free of any discrimination of any kind whatsoever. Few, if any, new governments took office in such a spirit of international euphoria.

2. The very first section of it's Constitution states that South Africa is "a democracy founded on...human dignity, the achievement of equality and the advancement of human rights and freedoms..."

3. Sixteen years down the line under ANC-rule, South Africa is a country plagued by murder; rape; corruption; incompetent administration; unemployment; poverty; disease and a host of other evils. An objective observer cannot but label the hypocritic utterances in the Constitution as tragic jokes.

4. The very different destinies of two South African men making news-headlines is a case in point.

5. On the one hand there is Shabir Shaik; during Apartheid an engineering-student (so much for the despised system of "Bantu education") and, in later years, the businessman closely involved with the ANC. In 2005, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison on counts of fraud and corruption for his role in the multi-billion Rand deal to procure arms for poverty-stricken South Africa. After a mere two years of incarceration, the public learned that Shaik is free again; being released as a "terminally ill" man. Shortly afterwards, this same "terminally ill" man was photographed with his luxurious BMW doing shopping; playing golf; and indulging in other niceties of life. The applicable denial, followed by "settling of the dust and forever-after-hold-your-peace", was the only result.

Hungerstrike: Amnesty for Eugene de Kock, Clive Derby-Lewis and Januzs Walus

	05 October 2010
President Jacob Zuma African National Congress (ANC) c/o Head of Comm. Ofc. Sec. Gen: Mr. M. Lekorotsoana	Minister of Correctional Services Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula c/o Mr. S. Mbananga & Ms. N. Tonga Tel: (012) 307 2884
Ms. Helen Zille Democratic Alliance (DA) c/o: Ms. Gaironesa Sonnenberg	Dr. Pieter Mulder Freedom Front Plus c/o: Dr. Corne Mulder
Rev Kenneth Raselabe Meshoe African Christian Democratic Party c/o Madeline Watson		Mr. Mosioa Lekota Congress of the People (COPE) c/o: Mr. Phillip Dexter
Mr Bantu Holomisa United Democratic Movement (UDM)	Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
CC: Clive Derby Lewis & Janusz Walus c/o: Attorney Marius Coertze		CC: Eugene de Kock c/o & via: Mr. Hennie Heymans

Dear President Zuma, Ms. Minister & SA Political Party Leaders,

RE: Notice of Radical Honesty SA Liquids Only Hungerstrike Enquiry: Truth and Forgiveness for Eugene de Kock, Clive Derby-Lewis and Januzs Walus: Enquiry Question: How is the State’s systemic conduct towards Eugene de Kock, Clive Derby Lewis; and Januzs Walus, motivated by Truth and Reconciliation? If not, is the State guilty of TRC fraud?


Radical Honesty SA Introduction

My name is Lara Johnstone. I am the only member of the Radical Honesty culture and religion, in South Africa (03 May 2010 Concourt Order of Chief Justice in CCT 23-10 (PDF)). The Radical Honesty culture and religion are founded upon the Truth and Forgiveness Social Contract: Being Specific About Anger and Forgiveness (PDF); as excerpted from: Practicing Radical Honesty (PDF).

The Conflict of the Past: A Factual Review | Die Konflik van die Verlede: ‘n Feitlike Oorsig

by General Johan van der Merwe

A long night's damage: Working for the Apartheid State; by Eugene De Kock [Amazon] [Eugene de Kock & TRC PR publicity stunt]

More than two decades after political negotiations were started and the ANC, as well as other revolutionary organisations, ceased the armed struggle, there is still large scale confusion and ignorance regarding the nature of the violence that raged in South Africa from 1960 to 1990.

The TRC, which unquestionably consisted overwhelmingly of ANC-supporters and sympathisers, laid the foundation for a propaganda onslaught in which the SABC and certain members of the media merrily took part.

One example of the manner in which this propaganda campaign was conducted is the Special Assignment program about the conflict of the past, presented by the SABC on 18 November 2008.

This program was presented in such a one-sided and distorted fashion that the Foundation for Equality before the Law found it necessary to lay a complaint with the Independent Broadcasting Complaints Commission. After conducting a trial, they found:

“Taking all these facts into consideration, the Tribunal is of the view that one-sided impressions were created in the programme, which is to the detriment of the security force officers. This does not mean that we are of the opinion that these officers were innocent of any atrocities. They (or some of them) admitted to such atrocities. What we find is that there was not sufficient balance in presenting this particular programme, because a lasting impression is created in the mind of the reasonable viewer, firstly, that the security officers were the only people who committed atrocities during the armed struggle, and, secondly, that they then tried to prevent victims from giving evidence against them at the TRC hearings. In finding thus, it is not our intention to interfere with the editorial prerogative of the presenter. The presenter is free to take a particular angle or line and to emphasize aspects that he or she considers to be more important than others. However, when the presenter is dealing with controversial issues of public importance, he or she should treat all parties involved in the issue fairly, and see to it that balance is obtained in presenting different viewpoints. If this is not done, the broadcast can deteriorate into propaganda, a situation that cannot be allowed in any democracy.”

Examples of this type of propaganda appear in our Media daily and it is sad that certain Afrikaans newspapers, either due to ignorance or because of journalists with dubious motives, often take the lead.

Eugene de Kock & the Political and Religious “Truth and Reconcilation” Nobel Peace Prize Prostitution Show...

A long night's damage: Working for the Apartheid State; by Eugene De Kock [Amazon]

As I have previously stated, from my personal experience in dealing with the TRC, TRC officials, and the TRC-RSA Goverment; I have come to the extremely unpleasant conclusion, that the Truth and Reconciliation was not sincere, by the individuals who set it up, or who profess to be “TRC/Proudly South African.”

In fact, I have come to the conclusion that anyone or any business who professes to be “Proudly South African,” is Proud of Hypocrisy, Betrayal, Deception, Greed, Lies and Secrecy.

What is there to be proud of in conducting the most spectacular Political and Religious “Truth and Reconcilation” Prostitution Image Management Show?

When circumstances and experiences began to force me to confront this as a working hypothesis to understand the motivations of individuals within the TRC South African Goverment actions, which totally contradicted thier “Truth and Reconciliation” verbal diarhea rhetoric; I resisted.

I found excuses, I thought 'Give them Another Chance'. Again, and again, and again. Finally, I thought I would let them know: to thier Face: In Black and White, how their actions were being interpreted, and give them an opportunity to provide a response to provide some alternative perspective insight into their behaviour.