Special Task Force

And, uh, I, I, I've known him for, uh, since 1987 or something like that.

Uh, and, uh, because he was, he was in the Special Task Force, uh, back then he was a sergeant and I was, uh, at the explosives unit.

I headed the, the training section, and they, they normally, all the Special Task Force members have to come for the explosives, uh, and ordnance disposal course with us.

And so we trained him there and, and, uh, ever since we worked together in Haiti and we worked together, I was on his team in, in Equatorial Guinea and, uh, and also in Mozambique we worked together.

So we, we know each other and we've got a very good relationship.

Mm

... with, with these guys to made it, to got my license and get my wings on a parade with the Special Task Force.

General Johan van der Merwe was still the commissioner those days, and he came physically and he brought the wing and he put the wing there on your chest.

That was, yes, yeah, I'm getting goosebumps just-

So we flew around all of those, and now they have this formation thing.

One oak sitting on the wing tip for us, and the other oak is behind us to make sure we're not gonna fly away of all of those.

And then, ja, like a low-level circuit and with the Hawks on the wingtips, and then we landed, and then the helicopters came, and they down roped the special task force.

Man.

Good afternoon, Mindy, and your listeners.

This breakthrough came about from an operation by a multidisciplinary team that is comprising of Crime Intelligence, SAPS in head office, the South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau, the Special Task Force, the Western K9, wherein they received information which they followed up to a plot in Hackport, and upon their arrival, Indeed, there was a clandestine drug manufacturing laboratory and five suspects were arrested on scene.

And currently the forensic science laboratory is busy combing the scene.

They also found mandrakes in various stages of manufacturing.

suspect linked to the murders of two crime intelligence officers in Mount Edgecombe has been shot dead in a police operation in Inanda.

A special task force operator was also shot and wounded during the exchange of gunfire this morning.

Crime scene investigators are busy combing the scene.

As Newswatch's Nthantla Mabaso reports, officers Louis Nell and Mandla Kuswayo were targeted along Flanders Drive in April.

Louis Nel rose to the rank of captain when he joined Crime Intelligence earlier this year, leaving the Special Task Force, a unit where he'd built much of his police career.

But three weeks into the new role, Nel was ambushed by gunmen alongside his colleague, Sergeant Mandla Kuzwayo.

Kuzwayo died in hospital several weeks after the incident.