When Colonel Eugene de Kock, Head of the C10 Vlakplaas Unit of the apartheid Security Branch, with former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operative, Glory Sedibe (aka “September”), who had been turned to work for the apartheid Security Forces (an “askari”), after De Kock had kidnapped him from Swaziland in August 1986, met a member of the apartheid Military Intelligence’s (MI) Directorate of Covert Collection (DCC) in Vienna, Austria, he was accompanied by a very prominent member of the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) Department of National Intelligence and Security (NAT/DIS or colloquially known as “Mbokodo”).
In that meeting, which was held on 22 November 1989, the “Mbokodo” man, who was well-known to September, was to be convinced to work as an agent for apartheid Military Intelligence. As they were discussing with this Mbokodo-cum-Security Branch agent, De Kock began asking about Thami Zulu. He recounted an incident in which Zulu and other ANC members wanted to shoot Special Agent Colonel Chris Deetlefs, Mr Labuschagne and other four members of the apartheid Security Branch at the Royal Swazi Hotel, while they were playing golf. Zulu was sent to fetch the weapons, and when he returned without them, he was recalled, arrested and detained in Zambia.
When the Mbokodo officer asked De Kock whether “Boniface” (alias for Thami Zulu) was an apartheid agent or not, De Kock said no he wasn’t. The man then commented that they made a terrible mistake by
There are perhaps two important aspects which you have not covered is the brutal killing of GM Mxenge who had links to the Natal Machinery.
The second one was the arrest in November 1981 of members of the Natal Machinery. Those includedthe late Judge Ntobeko Maqubela, Litha Jolobe, the late Mboniswa Maqhutyana and Mpumelelo Gaba.
Fear, akaBruinou, Cyril, Ralph together with the late Zweli Mkhize were part of the tgen Natal Urban and rural Machinery!