# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dirk-coetzee
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:11:13.094Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dirk-coetzee"
name: "Dirk Coetzee"
slug: "dirk-coetzee"
description: "Dirk Coetzee 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."
tagline: "South African police officer (1945–2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1945-04-15"
deathDate: "2013-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.83
  momentum:             14.8051948051948
  historical:           5.094638666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Coetzee"
    title: "Dirk Coetzee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Coetzee"
    title: "Dirk Coetzee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Coetzee"
    title: "Dirk Coetzee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%D8%B1%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%B9%D8%B2%DB%8C"
    title: "ڈرک کوٹزی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Coetzee"
    title: "Dirk Coetzee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Coetzee"
    title: "Dirk Coetzee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1227804"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump