self-defence units (SDUs)

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

... 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 ...

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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

MS CAMBANIS: You've already told the Committee that you were at the time a member of Umkhonto weSizwe and a member of the Self-Defence Units.

MS VAN DER WESTHUIZEN: Now during those violent years, did the IFP members or hostel residents, did they form self-protection units that you know of?

Everybody observed that as a fight between Zulu's and Xhosa's. On that meeting of the ANC Youth League, they said that amongst the members of the ANC Youth League and I was also the Chairperson of the Slovo Section, that we must form Self Defence Units.

... instances where people would fight over girlfriends and turn the information around thereafter and therefore all the members of the self defence units had to be able to gather information if a person had evidence about a certain information, that was ...

... on Tuesday, they said yes, they had indeed called up - I think they had said that the Carbineers had just been called up, that there were other units deployed now, and he said that he is ready and able to go and assist. Now obviously, and if we talk about a war zone now that stretch over ...

MS VAN DER WESTHUIZEN: Now these units that you mentioned earlier on in your evidence, how many units were there in Polla Park?

... were specifically instructed by Mr Oliver Tambo as well as the National Executive Council of the ANC to reassert the ANC policy to operational units as to the avoidance of purely civilian targets and he reiterated at that, failure to comply with these orders would be considered as a ...

CHAIRPERSON: Was it normal for your Units not necessarily yours specifically, to obtain ammunition from the members of the IFP?

I can also mention that it was custom for wherever in a certain area there was an increase in terrorist activities, we would deploy units there to assist in the collection of information and also to identify members of the revolutionary organisations which may have infiltrated.

MR DU PLESSIS: Right. Now Capt Bokaba, you have heard the evidence of Col Loots pertaining to the units of the security branch, Unit A, B, C, D and E. Do you agree with that evidence?

... these Street Committees were put on the alert and the matters were closely monitored. It is during this period that the residents of the aforesaid units bona fide believed that the "Killer Boys" were agents of the Security Forces. This belief was further reinforced by the fact that although the ...

MR SHAIK: No, I wouldn't say that it was part of the ANC policy, as per se. I would say that in that instance I perceived that the Self Defence Units given the situation that existed in townships at the time, were using those weapons to defend themselves against Inkatha led or Inkatha orientated ...

... in the light of similar concerns raised in the Katzen documents, this points to the modus operandi within the SADF's specialist forces and task units. ...

MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, I do not know of other units and groups, but my group never attacked people who were not involved in acts of terror.

... which the incident took place saw increased political activity and violence, particularly as we heard, in the Soweto area, that there were various units and MK units operating in that area and those units were mentioned by Pretorius in Exhibit B, page 5, paragraph 18, where he set them out. He ...