Towards the evening of 7 December 1981, Johannes Mnisi (aka “Victor Molefe”) of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Special Operations Unit, was in a car with two apartheid policemen, Major Frederik Nel and Detective Warrant Officer Phillipus Selepe, heading in the direction of the Oshoek Border Post.
At the border post they met up with Brigadier Schoon, Colonel J.J. Viktor, former Commander of Vlakplaas, Colonel Bert Wandrag, Captain Schalk Visser, the divisional commander of the apartheid Security Branch in Middleburg, and some members of the apartheid police’s Special Task Force, who were operating under the command of Captain M.B. Strydom.
Later on, into the night, the Special Task Force members entered Swaziland illegally and proceeded to a spot on a gravel road approximately a kilometre inside the kingdom, leaving behind at the border post the senior officers, including Brigadier Schoon, Colonels Victor and Wandrag, as well as Captain Visser. Members of the Task Force, which were around seven, were deployed by Captain Strydom to appropriate positions on the Swaziland terrain.
Among the Task Force members were Gert Visser, who took up a position behind his team members, and since it was dark, he could only see their silhouettes, as they were lying or kneeling before him.
Secondly, was Adriaan Dercksen, who was lying on the grass as a blue Citi Golf drove past him and stopped about twenty metres from him, as the headlights were switched-off. Since he was on the rear
