self-defence units (SDUs)

... of allegations of torture at the security branch in Protea. On a more personal level, I’ve had quite a lot of experience with murder and robbery units and allegations of torture by murder and robbery units - the use of electric shocks, the use of suffocation methods and so forth. ...

... a bit of a shift in the approach as to when it comes to stopping the terrorism and fighting it, this unit as an investigation unit divided into two units or sub-units if I can call it that, Chairperson. Mainly in command was Colonel Andy Taylor with an investigation unit directly under his ...

landmines in this area, Mr Kasrils will not be in a position to give you any details about those details due to the fact that he was not part of the units that were in this area that carried out these operations. He was also not even part of the command structure, or the Commanders that commanded ...

During the monitoring of this unit, it became apparent that the command structure of the unit set itself the goal of establishing MK- units within the already volatile labour field for the training of workers to commit acts of terror. SWT 180 was tasked by Shope to establish so-called Industrial ...

I was exposed to counter-insurgency training both in South Africa and externally in Rhodesia. I had the opportunity of serving operationally with units like the British/South African Police and especially the Partu units as it was known, the Police Anti-tracking Unit, the Rhodesian African ...

... after a while was that there seemed to be a pattern, a merging in our investigations, in that there were periods of time where activists or MK units would disappear and never be seen again. There were coincidences such as, in some of the cases where there were exhumations, where the amnesty ...

MR SHABANGU: Whilst I was stationed in Mozambique, we were then divided into small units for security reasons and initially I operated alone and secondly I was put in a unit of two and I was the lead in that unit, which can be called a Section Commander and I did reconnaissance whilst I was based ...

units of MK who launched attacks on strategic targets, is that

... station on a farm in the then Transvaal where turned askaris were housed as well as other members of the force who were used as members of units which were sent throughout the country and into neighbouring countries to carry out violent and frequently illegal operations on behalf of ...

Applicant said he had been deployed in the Gauteng area in early 1993. he and his unit had been planning various operations including the attack upon the Yeoville Police Station. He was a regional commander with several units under his command.

MR VLOK: Let me put it this way, in the Police I visited a lot of Units right through the year and I always thanked them for their work.

That is what other members in other Stratcom Units of the Security Branch would have been told by Head Office.

CHAIRPERSON: Now, you've told us about the leaders of units who you went on operations with, but who gave you general instructions as to the aims of APLA?

MR GOUWS: No, I knew Ben van Zyl before the Coin incident because I started at Murder and Robbery in '86, so it must have been during '87, because at that stage he was at Brixton Murder and Robbery and the Murder and Robbery Units cooperated very closely.

... I was one of the people who recruited the people, workers to know about their rights in their work places. Where I was operating where the units were not there in 1986 here in Northern Transvaal, operating from Warmbad, Messina, Barbeton, Mkushlu including Dendron and Ellisras. Now I ...

MR MOHLALA: The ANC did not work with branches, it worked with underground units. Louis Mgune who was the Chairperson of the UDF, was also part of the - the leader of that unit.

... our people would not have said that they regarded the police and the army as their friends as those who existed to protect them. So when you had units like your own acting in the manner in which you have just described, it stood out in stark contrast. We are very glad, I mean, that a ...

MR MAFU: I had to shoulder the responsibility of advancing the struggle in the area I was deployed in. This involved both political and conducting military operations, so I had a number of units under me, deployed in the area.

MR HUGO: Thank you. Then I want you to turn to page 29 and then very briefly there you also say that Vlakplaas was regularly applied by other units in order to cover up offences committed by the Security Police, and then to literally hide this under the bushel, if one were to put it as such.

... for the protection of V.I.P.'s in Kwa-Zulu, was approved by the State Security Council. Any suggestion, therefore that the training of the Kwa-Zulu units had anything to do with the establishment of a third force, which was at that stage still under consideration, constitutes a blatant disregard ...