self-defence units (SDUs)

ADV PRINSLOO: I respectfully submit Mr Chairman, it is common cause that Cronje was overall in charge of all the units at Compol building at this particular Branch but it was divided into various units, that Prinsloo of which he was head of a unit, did not arrest that person, so he could not have ...

I would like to emphasise that only a limited number of persons and a few units are involved . Nevertheless, the information at my disposal indicates a serious and unacceptable state of affairs.

... In terms of this picture, B is the Board Room. I ran, not towards the entrance, there is another double door leading towards the Blue and Yellow Units, that's where the bigger children were and we tried running out that way, but we were basically cornered in. There was a fence with barbed ...

Thirdly, there would be the question of establishing functional propaganda units for the distribution of leaflets and ANC information at home.

... to Tzaneen area to operate there. My mission was to reconnoitre and establish an MK presence in the area. I had orders to establish underground units which I commanded. I also trained and recruited MK cadres in the area. One of my units consisted of myself as Commander, James, I do not know ...

MR COETZEE: I can recall the specific incident Mr Chairperson and the fact that we were accompanied by members of the Special Forces, or Units, that we were mainly a white group.

I want to emphasise today that in contradiction to other units, it wasn't necessary for my members to be drunk when they went out on an operation or killed anybody. I had a 48 hour period during which it was compulsory that no alcohol be used and if I found anybody who smelt of alcohol during the ...

... I spoke to Brig Loots, he was the spokesperson. Brig Loots's request was that we should help them, that is Boputhatswana and the Western Transvaal Units, to get rid of this man. The man was creating a problem and had also already created a problem in that past. When I asked who this person ...

This Task Force, did you work in units?

... thing, if I recall correctly, this thing started after the Dawid Protter incident and a report was written and it was said that certain specialist units had to be founded and then the Task Force was founded, and from there the Unrest Unit was ...

The ANC instructions to MK were that they should operate in organisedunits with the following objectives. Deployed units in the ruralareas were instructed to mobilise the local inhabitants. Undergroundunits in the urban complexes and factories and in Black residentialareas were to form combat, ...

MR BERGER: You also bear no knowledge of any self-protection units set up to defend the residents of kwaMadala Hostel?

... to the second applicant, the third applicant and the first applicant. The first, third and second applicants were in command positions and had units operating under their control so they tried to identify in the course of the evidence and in the documentation those acts for which they accept ...

Because of that, there was a faction between the residents and the municipality. It is at that moment when the government of the apartheid regime decided to use the policemen called the Internal Stability Units, referred to as ISU's in the townships.

ADV GCABASHE: Can I just then ask, in respect of the protection duties you did in the community. Did you join the self-defence units of the ANC or did you operate your own type of protection separately to those of, in fact, either the SDUs, which were the ANC's or the SPUs which was the Inkatha ...

... a wish of being put through to me and John. Then he further indicated that their sole purpose of being in the area was that we need to assemble Units, Units which would be in a position to act as the defence of the community, in terms of the threats that we currently were encountering in the ...

MR OOSTHUIZEN: No, simply because I also knew that there was an overlap of work between the Murder and Robbery Units and the Security Branch at that stage in the country.

MR MTHEMBU: I just heard you now mentioning defence units, could you just in brief explain to the Committee what role the defence units played at the time?MR MONYAKE: The role played by the defence units by that time was to defend the community of Maukeng, the community as a whole against the ...

... we proceeded to Lesotho and then in Lesotho we illegally crossed into South Africa. Our mission at this point in time was to form self-defence units in the Vaal, but we would be based in the Free State so ...(indistinct, at our own discretion we'd go to the East Rand, continue organising ...

MR MILLER: Do you know whether he was part of the ANC's Self Defence Units?