Dirk Coetzee (April 1945 – 7 March 2013) was co-founder and commander of the covert South African Police unit based at Vlakplaas. He and his colleagues were involved in a number of murders including Sizwe Khondile and Griffiths Mxenge. He exposed the existence of the unit in a 1989 interview with Vrye Weekblad, confirming a story that death-row ...