self-defence units (SDUs)

MS MTANGA: Okay as an MK member to which units were you attached?

MR CHASKALSON: Did you have any specific dealings with one or more of these units?

... and with great respect, Professor Terblanche does not, that business can never be classified as a homogenous entity. It is made up of individual units, large and small, with many differing policies, objectives and characteristics. It must be remembered too that during the period under review, ...

MR KOOPEDI: Do I understand you then to say that there would have been other Units in the area and he would be responsible for those Units, but for your Unit, Stanza would have been the Commander?

... my disposal that Inkatha was going to use this march as a decoy to attack Shell House and kill our leaders. I had information from my surveillance units and from the radio what was happening in and about town, the mass destruction caused by these marchers throughout town and the killing of ...

However their applications overlap to other actions by their sub-units. However the applicants were able to make contact only with one such sub-unit which was the Basil February Unit in Duduza, and could only give details about the actions of this unit. Even though the applicants could not ...

ADV MPSHE: Good and I want to put to you that we know of repossession units, not so? You know about repossession units as well?

... se your identity per se. You might withhold certain information yes, which you know will compromise those that were in existence in your specific units, but to say: "I am an APLA member" then, I don't see any problem in it, but the holding of information thereof, ...

Now I think it is important to say something about our units. Each sabotage unit consisted of four members, with a unit leader, and four such units constituted a platoon.

MR DU PLESSIS: Could you distinguish the Investigative Unit at that Security Branch from the other units of the Security Branch which were working there?

CHAIRPERSON: Sorry, Mr Ngubane, if I could just ask a question for clarification? Mr Lethuli, I see from your affidavit here at page 287 you refer to Wards 8 and 9, and in paragraph 25.8.1 you talk about Units 4 and Unit 10, is there a difference between a ward and a unit, or is it the same thing?

MR VAN DER WESTHUIZEN: With the purpose of obtaining further information with regard to other units and his units.

... on this campaign of landmines. That it was decided upon at Military Headquarters and the same page specifies the instructions that went out to the units involved. We've all read ...

would request askaris from Head Office, from the South African Police, then the Head Office through Colonel De Kock, would be able to deploy various units to various places which had made a request for askaris to come and help them. So it is my belief that we went to Krugersdorp because of the ...

ADV PRIOR: Were those two distinct units or did they fall under the umbrella of the kwaMashu unit, I don't quite understand?

MR WANGA: No we don't know how he used the money but as I've already said we knew that there were other units in other places that needed support, that needed food, so we were not aware or we didn't know whether he did or not but we knew there were people who were needing support.

(Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tansania, UK, Zambia and Zimbabwe Representatives of the NAT Regional Directorate of the Internal Units or Operatives Commanders of MK training camps, Samafco, and detention/rehabilitation centers (Quadro) ...

MR SALOOJEE: As I've indicated, I was the Head of Regional Ordinance, with the responsibility for infiltrating weapons into the country. Obviously in that position I had a number of operatives and units working under my command.

MR HATTINGH: Mr Van Zyl, I did not cross-examine you about transactions that you had with other units of the South African Police and you realised this, but my cross-examination of you was about the payment that you had for information that you had given to Vlakplaas.

MR ROSSOUW: And am I correct in saying that one would have expected this to be among persons who were members of operational units that this is where such terminology would be applied?