On the evening of 4 December 1985, at the home of Mapiki Dlomo, in Lamontville, a recently infiltrated Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadre, Andrew Zondo, was engaging with Jacob Mofokeng on the next operations they were supposed to undertake. Zondo was collected by Sibongiseni Dhlomo from Ingwavuma in November, with other two MK cadres, “Sandile” and Terence Tyron, to reinforce “Operation Butterfly”.
On this day he was there to provide Mofokeng and Dlomo with the kind of training in the use of actual weapons that Lulamile Xate (aka “Tallman”) referred to when he briefed them in January 1985. Later on that night, at around 22:00, the three walked in the direction of a local Anglican church, which had a concealed bush and tall grass and illuminated slightly by a high electricity post in an area close by.
Zondo then placed his hand into the bush and withdrew a bag from which he took out an AK-47 assault rifle. He then began instructing Mofokeng and Dlomo in dismantling, reassembling and using the cloth to clean the rifle.
Early in June 1985, Vijay Ramlakan, an activist of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) had arrived at Unit 2 Shopping Centre in Bayview, Chatsworth, Durban, where he took his comrade, Raymond Sakloo, in his white Toyota Cressida. Ramlakan then informed Sakloo about his plan to petrol-bomb the house of a member of the House of Delegates, in the Tri-cameral Parliament, as one of his operatives in Chatsworth informed him of this.
While they were talki
