self-defence units (SDUs)

one of those who participated in the concept of operation butterfly, that he discussed it with other leaders and that they then gave instructions to units who were to go back into the country, into Natal and set up organisations to carry out all the aims of Operation Butterfly, all the objects ...

MR PRINSLOO: Chairperson, to give you a broad background, at that time there was information from several sources of so-called units of MK, who operated in Northern Transvaal and Bophuthatswana area, adjacent to Northern Transvaal and with my contemporary in Bophuthatswana I made contact and on a ...

... and he was also very active inside South Africa around the Soweto area which made our work quite difficult in a sense that around that time many units which were operating in the country were either arrested or they were actually drawn into a situation whereby there could be crossfire with the ...

... available. I'm saying this in light of a conference held at Oudtshoorn in the late eighties, when there were still three or four such Vlakplaas units to be formed. The commanders and divisional commanders with right wanted immediate 24 hour availability for their own ...

... at that stage he was allocated with his Battalion Group to provide medical support to Special Forces and to Parabats and to other police service units, which was another possibility that I certainly contemplated could have been used. But I was not so bold as to conclude immediately that he ...

... have been the Murder and Robbery Unit's Commanding Officer. Perhaps I could assist by explaining that the Murder and Robbery Unit were specialised units. We did not have a Murder and Robbery Unit in the Kroonstad ...

Again, some us, as well as myself would like to get our files from the Special Branch. There was a file of myself in the Special Branch Units. They said they were following me while I was in Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth. I would like to know why they were investigating me because I was ...

MR LALLA: Oh yes. In regard to commanders is that we were told that we must take responsibility for all operations which were carried out by members of units under our command and basically that's it.

... of page 116 of your amnesty application that your further motives and objectives were to act as an anti-terrorism unit, to track all infiltrating units of the exiled political parties, to carry out arrests where possible and in general to act as a counter-terrorism unit, to exercise all ...

MR DE KOCK: No Chairperson there are some of them who kept to that. As we have found with these units or groups there were members who would have spoken in a moment of confidence to a fellow member. I can give you an example. In 1983, after having been at Vlakplaas for a month, when Brian ...

Thank you. You then proceed to say that it was agreed between the first applicant and yourself that you will carry out this operation as other cell units did not have the requisite experience to handle an attack of this nature and that after careful reconnaissance surveillance, you had agreed to ...

MR TANDA: The instruction was to recruit Africans and establish APLA units and train comrades for the task force, the task force that would defend the members of the PAC and to ensure no enemies infiltrate the PAC, and to ensure that the APLA soldiers who are coming, I should welcome those and make ...

MR VISSER: And in paragraph 95 it is stated that Ndwandwe had managed to recruit the remaining members who had managed to escape and created new units under her control, with which she continued to commit acts of terror within the Republic.

CAPT KHOJA: The barracks was distributing post to different Units, it was myself or Ngo himself.

ADV SANDI: Therefore there was no conflict between these two Units?

MR DE KOCK: It is correct, Mr Chairperson, because we went as far as to send those devices to our explosive unit or section, in order for them to inform all the other explosive units in the country and we did circulate a photograph of that device.

A certain team was elected from the Security Police and some members from other units, compiling the team who was going to be in charge of this, look for the people who were planning to overthrow the government. I was one of the members of the team.

MR DE KOCK: No Chairperson, in that case, what came to Head Office, would have come from Intelligence Units from right across the country and from the ANC offices itself, where we also had our sources, and more probably by tapping devices.

MR KHUBEKA: I think I had been a member of IFP long ago, because my mother used to own IFP, or run IFP drama units(?), before the IFP had these five colours on their logos, then they had only three colours, that is when I took full membership of the IFP.

... measures that could be taken. This meeting was attended by Schoon, de Kock, W Coetzee, Pretorius, Visser, Deetlefs and de Jager. The different units pooled all the information they had gathered and came to the conclusion that the attacks were launched by the ANC unit known as the September ...