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. ...

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 ...

MR MAMANI: Firstly, the armoury that was inside the country were being used by the units that were existent that as I have mentioned that I came back after indemnity in 1991, I didn't come back with any armoury from outside the country. Whatever supply was there it belonged to certain units.

... by Steyn, that they were actively concealing this from de Beer, indicates that there wasn't a convergence or a co-operation between the two units, it wasn't as if de Beer was acting with the knowledge that these two were being dealt with by Botha. There was an active concealment going on ...

... was in 1981, March, that was a basic course because in the Police Force that ...(indistinct) assignments that differed according to the different units. The units would tell us how our enemies operate and what we were supposed to do and the basic course we were told as to how to question a ...

REVEREND XUNDU: In your duties of being in charge of the police force you were also in charge of the units of the security police of the Ciskei?

MR SINJATSI: Now my question to you is, did you belong to any of these special operation units?

MR PRINSLOO: Chairperson, to give you a broad background, at that time there was information from several sources of so-called units of MK, who operated in Northern Transvaal and Bophuthatswana area, adjacent to Northern Transvaal and with my contemporary in Bophuthatswana I made contact and on a ...

MR FRANCIS: We have seen affidavits from, that was given by Mr Geldenhuys, or I think it is not Geldenhuys, Engelbrecht, even Mr Geldenhuys I think deposed to an affidavit at the trial that the role of Vlakplaas did in fact change in 1990 and they had to assist I think other units of the police.

MR HATTINGH: And then there were also members from other security units, from the South African Police who were involved?

... for people who are leaving South Africa and joining the ANC. The ANC has about 80 trained soldiers in Lesotho and they are divided into certain units. Then it goes on to describe how the ANC is well placed in Lesotho and then it says and this is the part that I am interested in, the last, ...

MR VISSER: And in paragraph 95 it is stated that Ndwandwe had managed to recruit the remaining members who had managed to escape and created new units under her control, with which she continued to commit acts of terror within the Republic.

A certain team was elected from the Security Police and some members from other units, compiling the team who was going to be in charge of this, look for the people who were planning to overthrow the government. I was one of the members of the team.

MR DE KOCK: No Chairperson, in that case, what came to Head Office, would have come from Intelligence Units from right across the country and from the ANC offices itself, where we also had our sources, and more probably by tapping devices.

MR TANDA: The instruction was to recruit Africans and establish APLA units and train comrades for the task force, the task force that would defend the members of the PAC and to ensure no enemies infiltrate the PAC, and to ensure that the APLA soldiers who are coming, I should welcome those and make ...

Again, some us, as well as myself would like to get our files from the Special Branch. There was a file of myself in the Special Branch Units. They said they were following me while I was in Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth. I would like to know why they were investigating me because I was ...

MR DE KOCK: It is correct, Mr Chairperson, because we went as far as to send those devices to our explosive unit or section, in order for them to inform all the other explosive units in the country and we did circulate a photograph of that device.

CAPT KHOJA: The barracks was distributing post to different Units, it was myself or Ngo himself.

EXAMINATION BY MR GROBLER: General, you will recall that the previous time, we dealt with what was identified as the Joubert plan, this was the plan which in terms of where Commandant Naude and Colonel Verster, were deployed to different Units, do you recall that?

... available. I'm saying this in light of a conference held at Oudtshoorn in the late eighties, when there were still three or four such Vlakplaas units to be formed. The commanders and divisional commanders with right wanted immediate 24 hour availability for their own ...