self-defence units (SDUs)

MR PRIOR: And are you able to assist the Committee in putting a time frame on that meeting when you started Beauty Salon, the repossession units, can you remember more or less when that happened?

MS ANDERSON: We worked in quite tight, you could say cells, units, departments. You had for example Wally working in the cultural section, you had various people working in Intelligence, you had various people working in MK and it was quite tight, the way in which people worked was quite tight, ...

MR DUBE: If I may go back, yesterday I did explain that I had other duties that I was conducting or doing, I also had other units and my mind was preoccupied with training of these units. If it was not necessary for me to communicate with them, I would not communicate with them, I would continue ...

MS ANDERSON: We worked in quite tight, you could say cells, units, departments. You had for example Wally working in the cultural section, you had various people working in Intelligence, you had various people working in MK and it was quite tight, the way in which people worked was quite tight, ...

... that she was arrested by the South African Security Police he was puzzled by the fact that no action was taken by the latter against any of the units or the MK premises in Swaziland that were known to Ms Simelane.  He had never seen Ms Simelane since her departure for South Africa and ...

forces cannot be allowed to break the law in order to defend legality. The solution to this problem in many states has been to allow security force units to carry out extra-legal counter-revolutionary acts as long as they are done ...

And then there would be the line functions, those were the units. There was 1 Reconnaissance Regiment which was stationed in Durban, there was 2 Reconnaissance Regiment which was a civilian unit, there was 4 Reconnaissance Regiment which was stationed at Langebaan and then there was also 5 ...

... this football club. To the best of my knowledge there was not a branch of Stratcom at the security branch. As concerns co-operation between other units of the SAP and other agencies there was co-operation between them but there was to my knowledge no specific actions directed at Mrs Winnie ...

MR FRANCIS: And that's now to be of assistance to the various units, including Murder and Robbery?

... description for police crowd control. Now let me make it clear, I accept that the SAP at the time were looking to expand the riot or unrest control units and I also accept that no third force as a separate force, separate from the SAP and the SADF in the way in which it was discussed at the State ...

MR VISSER: The house has been divided into two units where two different families can live in.

MR MNISI: I wouldn't know about other units, but in our unit it was Vusi and Dumakude.

MR ZEELIE: Before I joined the Security Branch, I was involved with the foundation of the Unrest Units in Diepkloof, Soweto, and it was the beginning of 1970 until July 1976, and July 1976 I joined the Security Branch.

MR MAY: If I remember well we were quite a number because in our unit we were two and then there were other units who took part in another police station to the one we were attacking, there was another unit again which took part in the attack in town. I think we were six all-in-all.

... Pretoria Central, Pretoria North, and every district had a District Commandant. Within the division there were also Detective Branches, Unrest Units, Security Branches, with their ...

All of us who left Pretoria went through Grootfontein and there we were divided amongst the various units, amongst the various hospitals. Some of the people who went with us were sent straight to Unita, to be medics for Unita, particularly one chap who used to sleep in the bed next to me in ...

... the Compol building was of such a nature that there were security guards who were on duty 24 hours a day and there were also other members of other units who were entering and exiting the building regularly during the day and night. As I have already stated, I saw potential in this person to ...

MR KOOPEDI: You sat with Betty for some time, together with Nomasonto and Tax, and I believe this will be a fair question to ask, did Nomasonto and Tax belong to other units, or did they only belong to Betty's unit?

MR FRANCIS: But you had to assist all the other units of the police?

... the illegal distribution and buying of firearms, amongst others, AK guns, hand grenades, explosives and I told her that I'd try to use the firearm units to help her. As far as I know she was also informed by the Gold and Diamond Branch to deal with the firearms unit in ...