self-defence units (SDUs)

... that the armed struggle had been suspended, it took quite a period of time to actually be conveyed to certain of the, for want of a better word, units in South Africa and specifically he said that at the time that the Bahai Faith Mission attack took place, he knew that the Transkei had not ...

MR THULU: The reason for them to look for me, I wasthe leader of the SDUs and these units were disturbing the 3 milliongang to carry forward their aims.

MR MALI: After coming back from the exile I got involved in the Self Defence Units. We were called to the Standard House where the people who were coming from the exile were gathered, who were called by Mr Chris Hani.

Truth and Reconciliation Act. Many of the operations are not listed as I cannot recall all those which were carried out under my command by various units over the years. In addition to this many of the commands, orders and instructions were verbal given the extremely tight security situation ...

"Form underground units and combat groups in our places of work and taking such action such as sabotage in the factories, mines, farms and suburbs and disrupting the enemy's oil, energy, transport, communications and other vital systems.

MR KNOPP: Was MK not meant to establish SDU units?

MR GUSHU: As I had the permission to train the Self Defence Units, I thought that it was important for me to give it to some of the members of the Self Defence Units that I trained.

... or we would send someone to go and report in Botswana, but as time went on we had to establish a unit specially for repossession, however, other units got engaged in repossession. Now our forces lost a bit of direction and they started engaging in repossessions, so we wanted a specialised one ...

MR WILLS: Now, we have heard the evidence of both Mr Radebe and Dr Phillips concerning the establishment of SDU's and particular emphasis has been placed on the procurement of arms for those Units.

On the 11th, I met with my co-comrades, whom were serving as Self Defence Units at Flagstaff. The name of the comrade was Vuyani Nyalukana. We discussed the issue of the assassination of comrade Chris Hani together.

... structure of the MK activities in and around Durban. Among other responsibilities and specifically some of my responsibilities then was to service units, some of the MK units that were operatives in and around Durban and my contact with those units was to supply them with explosives material and ...

"When we got to Boipatong we came across a group of Self Defence Units."

MR BUTHELEZI: Yes, it was well-known that the Self Defence Units were to be attacked.

... people that have been trained in a formal way, but you are also going to mobilise the people, mobilise the people and organise them, into defensive units, so that they can defend themselves in a situation where the oppressed people running the gauntlet of racist brutality, each one of them had to ...

MR BOOYENS: You also mention that you had contact, that is in paragraph 12, with other police units, Sanob and the Riot Squad, etcetera, Narcotics Bureau. Why was that necessary?

And that is when SANCO took a decision that it had to establish a group that was going to protect the residents. Thereafter SANCO established these Self Defence Units. After a while I was appointed as one of the leaders of the Self Defence Unit in the region of Site B in Khayelitsha.

... and Reconciliation Act. Many of the operations are not listed as I cannot recall all those which were carried out under my command, by various units over the years. In addition to this many of the commands, orders and instructions were verbal, given the extremely tight security situation ...

"On the date of the Ellis Park bomb blast which was on the 2nd July 1988, I was the commander of the special operation units of M.K. I succeeded Abubaker Ismail known to me as Rashid, it was during 1987. Before this, I was the subordinate commander in Botswana having been transferred from ...

MR MKHIZE: What I had in my mind, was that people who were attacking us, were the Self Defence Units. We had already heard that they were patrolling the streets at night, and these are the people that we wanted to attack and kill, because they were the ones who were burning people.

MR VAN JAARSVELD: The units, as I have given evidence with regard to the Ntuli incident, co-operated with one another and the special operational group which was active with the Northern Transvaal Security Branch consisted of specialists who would have worked in that area. And the agreement ...