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 murders including Griffiths Mxenge. He exposed the existence of the unit in a 1989 interview with Vrye Weekblad, confirming a story that death-row convict Butana Almond Nofomela told a Johannesburg weekly the previous year.Coetzee was born in Phokwane Local Municipality. His father was a postal worker and himself worked for the postal service before becoming an investigator in 1969. Starting out as a constable in 1972 he rose through the ranks, and advanced his cause on secondment with the Rhodesian armed forces. He was promoted to captain in the security police and in 1980 became the first commander of the secret police base on the Vlakplaas farm near Pretoria. In 1981, he was "assigned" the murder of Griffiths Mxenge. Wikipedia
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