Lotz was Niewoudt's close associate in the PE Security Branch; he was also Nic van Rensburg's son in law. This week, he claimed to have had no knowledge of the bomb in the car. The widows of Glen Mgoduka, Amos Faku and Desmond Mapipa came to Centenary Hall to oppose the applications. Four weeks before the Motherwell bomb Dirk Coetzee exposed the police hit squads operating from Vlakplaas. Paranoia hit the security branch. Government appointed the Harms Commission to investigate allegations of death squads. In the Eastern Cape, Gideon Niewoudt suspected that three of his men were about to go the Dirk Coetzee route, exposing their involvement in security branch fraud as well as the murders of Matthew Goniwe and the Pebco Three. Niewoudt believed he had to stop them at all costs.
12 июн 2011
