self-defence units (SDUs)

... have been the Murder and Robbery Unit's Commanding Officer. Perhaps I could assist by explaining that the Murder and Robbery Unit were specialised units. We did not have a Murder and Robbery Unit in the Kroonstad ...

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 ...

CHAIRPERSON: I think the question is Mr Chamane, did it have a structure? Did it have a leader and people below the leader who could give orders? Did it work in units or cells, or what was an SPU?

MR TLHWALE: I think myself as an underground operative, part of my work was secret and I couldn't even discuss with him some of the things even units or cells which I belonged to and also I think that was his modus operandi, he couldn't say where, like to me, where he got the weapons but I knew ...

The work of the sub-Units as was set by Colonel Coetzee was as follows: to observe and monitor political activists in Brandfort and to open up groups of gangsters who would work with the Security Branch, to plan and support the attacking strategies against the comrades and to plant seeds of ...

MR RAUTENBACH: I understand there must be a contact between the different units on a continual basis and when such an interrogation is finished and you then receive information that this person that you interrogated and that another person was interrogated said something relevant to the one that ...

MR NTSEBEZA: Were there any meetings that you attended at which there were other units of the Security Forces at Mannenberg?

MR BARNARD: Honourable Chairperson, I was a member of various units. I was originally with the Uniform Branch and then I went to the Detective Branch. I followed many courses at the Detective Branch, then I went to the Tracing Unit, then to the Unit for gang violence, which was established in ...

MR KAHANOVITZ: Yes and even before the name the CCB came into existence, there were various other units which had other names before the CCB was created, such as Barnacle? In other words the modus operandi was nothing new, all that was new was the creation of an internal region, correct?

MR NDABA: As a former MK member in the protection units I was integrated into the SAPS.

ADV SANDI: Did you know him as a member of one of your units?

Now it's quite clear that as time went on, further combatants were trained, whether they were taken up in self-protection units or whatever the nature of it was, it is quite clear that other combatants were trained and inter alia, I think, that you took part in that training. Is that correct? ...

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 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.

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.

SAP offices and units;

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.

... measures that could be taken. This meeting was attended by Schoon, de Kock, W Coetzee, Pretorius, Visser, Deetlefs and de Jager. The different units pooled all the information they had gathered and came to the conclusion that the attacks were launched by the ANC unit known as the September ...