self-defence units (SDUs)

Secondly, our communication and collaboration with the SAP was such that it was confined to the Special Branch of the SAP, not other units. Only the Special Branch came to Mrs Mbuaze and we would discuss the ANC.

Now, in what capacity were you employed? What type of duties did you perform at that stage? --- I was employed and I worked in many units and I ended up at the reaction unit.

MR DU PLESSIS: And we have heard much evidence that Vlakplaas units operated throughout the country within various divisions and areas.

... word, from being protected from civil and criminal liability because he comes forward and he says, I was that person who was in charge and I sent units into the country and I don't know everything that happened within the country because of whatever lack of information and secrecy and so on. ...

... to handle hostage dramas within the South African Republic, as we did do during the Silverton bank incident. Secondly, the stopping of insurgency units. Thirdly, it was in support of the South African Police right through South Africa at high risk operations where, and with this I mean rescue ...

... in the manufacture of certain booby-trapped explosive devices which were to be utilised for covert offensive purposes by the operational units of the police. During or about the period 1985 - 1987, Applicant was involved in the manufacture of a manuscript bomb which he understood was ...

MR NTSEBEZA: General would this discrediting also take the form of what I put to Gen Magnus Malan, namely where units or soldiers would blacken their faces to create the impression that they were SWAPO operatives in order to discredit Swapo in any of the things that they had done? Would that be ...

MR KAHANOVITZ: Yes and even before the name the CCB came into existence, there were various other units which had other names before the CCB was created, such as Barnacle? In other words the modus operandi was nothing new, all that was new was the creation of an internal region, correct?

MR BARNARD: Honourable Chairperson, I was a member of various units. I was originally with the Uniform Branch and then I went to the Detective Branch. I followed many courses at the Detective Branch, then I went to the Tracing Unit, then to the Unit for gang violence, which was established in ...

MR SHABANGU: Whilst I was stationed in Mozambique, we were then divided into small units for security reasons and initially I operated alone and secondly I was put in a unit of two and I was the lead in that unit, which can be called a Section Commander and I did reconnaissance whilst I was based ...

... after a while was that there seemed to be a pattern, a merging in our investigations, in that there were periods of time where activists or MK units would disappear and never be seen again. There were coincidences such as, in some of the cases where there were exhumations, where the amnesty ...

MR SMIT: Were you specifically instructed by Mr Harry Gwala to establish these units?

MR GOUWS: No, I knew Ben van Zyl before the Coin incident because I started at Murder and Robbery in '86, so it must have been during '87, because at that stage he was at Brixton Murder and Robbery and the Murder and Robbery Units cooperated very closely.

... then it continues in the 4th paragraph: General Viljoen toured the country in 1993 and held many secret discussions with commanders from various units where the war plans were worked out in precise detail. Furthermore a graph or a sketch of the planning stages of this strategy is provided as ...

... to decide what to do to them. We returned. Before that, I found Zekele with other councillors holding a meeting, councillors from all the units. He asked one old man to take us where we were supposed to go and return us to him thereafter. This old man took us and we left with him and ...

CHAIRPERSON: Now, you've told us about the leaders of units who you went on operations with, but who gave you general instructions as to the aims of APLA?

units of MK who launched attacks on strategic targets, is that

evidence of Mr Simelane and of Mr Masina, who are involved in the Shlube incident first and then we'll proceed with the rest of the incidents of the units ...

MS VAN DER WESTHUIZEN: Do you know anything about self-protection units that were formed by IFP members in Thokoza?

MR MAKHUBU: There's so much he could have furnished to the police. And at that time to capture an MK soldier was valuable. So he had so much he could have disclosed to the police and in also in relation to the units as well. He could have furnished so much to the police.