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On Friday the 12/10/2001 I had lunch with Booysen at News Cafe’ at Musgrave Centre in Durban. When I arrived, he took out a photo of an African suspect by the name of Jabulani and told me “If you see this bloody bastard put a bullet in his head.” He then proceeded to explain to…

After the Murder and Robbery Unit was renamed the Serious and Violent Crime Unit, Booysen had me registered at the detective service (TAB 810) of the Serious & Violent Crime Unit (TAB 811) and sent me to attend various training courses, including S.W.A.T and house penetrations’ techniques. There was an argument with the Mayville station…

Johan Booysen personally drove me around to get my medical test and police clearance on 28th September 2000. My appointment certificate arrived and I was allocated to the Mayville police station in October 2000. Immediately and before I even visited the police station at Mayville, Booysen sent a letter to the Mayville police Station Commissioner,…

I had known Booysen and his family for two years, he had repeatedly expressed his desire to plan a tour in Europe together and that I accommodate him and his family in Greece. I had already upgraded my business to a larger premises in Smith Street and he suggested that I apply to the South…

After I became friends with Booysen, as a civilian I witnessed some of the members of police Murder and Robbery Unit torturing African suspects. Thanks to my friendship with the Booysen family, members of his Durban Murder and Robbery Unit trusted me enough to allow me to watch them interrogate and torture suspects at their…

I met a senior police officer, Johan Booysen, the commander of the Apartheid notorious police, Durban murder and robbery unit in KwaZulu-Natal, in my store. He arrived with Captain Willie Olivier in order to purchase a new computer for his (Booysen’s) family. More about Booysen and his unit of terror can be read here, as…

I expanded my business to Broad Street in Durban and started to trade in computer hardware as well as TVs and video machines.

I started my own company called Technotronic Electronics, at 45 Cato Street, Durban. While I was looking at my photos again I remembered at the time that I was so broke, that I could not afford sign writing for my windows of my shop, so I visited a bookstore called CNA in Durban beachfront, purchased…

I enrolled for an electrical engineering course at the Durban University of Technology (then called Natal Technicon) and moved to the Berea Residence of the University. After completing the first semester I was forced to discontinue my studies as I needed to work because of financial pressures. By then I was already performing limited radio /…

I visited South Africa through my uncle Dennis Nikolopoulos (RIP), who owned multiple clothing stores in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in order to explore the possibility of studying in electronics in South Africa.