self-defence units (SDUs)

You were promoted to the rank of Lieutenant during December 1965 and from 1966 you were a Liaison Office between the uniformed branch units of the head Security Branch and you also participated in the search for terrorists and the investigation of the activities of agitators and these duties were ...

MR KENDALL: I did not visit the scene. As has already emanated from the evidence here there were Special Investigative Units and I was not any further involved in the investigations.

According to Applicant, Major-General Erasmus, then a Brigadier and the then head of the Security Police Intelligence/Stratcom Units, ordered him during 1988 to see if something could be done with the stolen cheques through the assistance of Applicant's contacts in the banking world. Pursuant to ...

"The political objectives sought to be achieved were those of financially maintaining APLA units through such means as applied in these cases in question."

... Africa and all the team returned safely and most of them or those of the team who were not involved in the head office sections returned to the units from which they had come before they had been seconded to my unit to carry out this operation. ...

MR BOTHA: The cases, and this was Gen Steyn's unique style, but not only I reported directly to him, the chiefs of other units within the Security Branch station in Durban. In all cases he maintained a hands-on approach.

Lester, the Deputy Director of Operations of APLA gave commands as to the general policy of the activities related to APLA units.  The general policy was to drive white people from land because it did not belong to them.  The occupants of land were legitimate targets.  These attacks would ...

... to the effect that the reaction unit and the detectives unit should infiltrate, that is hit squad members should be able to infiltrate these units so that IFP members would not be arrested or they would bar the arrest of IFP members. Fortunately, Dina Mkhize was already in the reaction ...

We have heard in our experience in these hearings, that you often had Units and then they had their AK47's and hand grenades and whatever, they had arms when they went on an operation. If an operative did not have an arm, would he be issued with an arm, a weapon of some sort?

MR CORNELIUS: Well there were Self-Protection Units running around, fighting, there were A-teams, there were comrades, there were lots of dangerous situations in the townships at that time.

... at the end of the day, because you refer to ICU's in your application and the question which arises is whether or not these Industrial Combat Units were actually the reason why the operation which is of relevance to this application, was ultimately launched. Is it correct that in as far as ...

... no course in the Army as far as covert operations were concerned. My own priorities with Special Forces was firstly the uniform part, established units, busy with operations, operations planning, my second priority was the CCB externally which was also established, busy with operations, ...

... 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 ...

MR NDABA: As a former MK member in the protection units I was integrated into the SAPS.

Maj Van den Berg had told me that he regretted that Caiphus was killed by units which dealt with terrorism.

... where the ambush took place? If you look at photographs 2, 3 and 4 where you are pointing out certain things, are those the positions that your units were in during the ...

Mr Simelane, this Rambo name, was it known in the Saulsville area or was it only known to underground units, because the family says there's no name like this that this guy was known about.

MR MOERANE: Who were in the units with whom you planned this operation?

ADV SANDI: Did you know him as a member of one of your units?

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?