March 28, 1945 - Dirk Coetzee
As commander of Vlakplaas, he led a covert unit that operated outside any legal framework, conducting assassinations and other extrajudicial acts against apartheid-era opponents of the South African state. His later decision to speak publicly about these operations — including the killing of activist Griffiths Mxenge — helped expose the systematic nature of state-sanctioned violence that official denial had long obscured.
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Dirk Coetzee (15 April 1945 – 7 March 2013) was co-founder and commander of the covert South African Security Police unit based at Vlakplaas. He and his colleagues were involved in a number of extrajudicial killings including that of Griffiths Mxenge. Coetzee publicly revealed the existence of the Vlakplaas death squads in 1989, making himself a target of a failed assassination attempt.
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