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Butana Nofomela

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/ 15 May 1997

Dirk Coetzee guilty of murder

Coetzee was the first security policeman to publicly confess and recant for his crimes.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 24 November 1989

Hit-squad clues could be seen long before Coetzee

Support for police assassination squads has come from the commanding heights of South Africa’s security forces.

By Gavin Evans
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/ 3 November 1989

Police chief suddenly retires

In the midst of allegations of security police assassination squads, Brigadier Willem Schoon has suddenly retired from the police force.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 27 October 1989

The last hope on Death Row: Shucks, the gambler under the gallows

The news came through on the wires shortly before 10am last Friday – three men had been hanged at Pretoria Central Prison at dawn.

By David Beresford
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/ 27 October 1989

Targets for murder

I was told to kill these activists, says ‘hit-squad’ policeman on death-row.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 20 October 1989

Death-row policeman tells of SB ‘hit-squad’

Affidavit implicates top officers in murder of lawyer Griffiths Mxenge.

By Ivor Powell

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