self-defence units (SDUs)

MR NTSEBEZA: But did you ever meet as heads of these operational units to discuss matters of joint operations on a daily basis because it seems to me that in, this is the impression that you created certainly in some of the statements that you gave earlier in connection with this matter?

GEN COETZEE: Any person present. I personally, and I don't wish to lengthen this, I heard that there were army units which were also deployed there in the vicinity. At the meeting of CIC, I saw in the minutes that there were members of Military Intelligence present. That is another question to ...

... simply, the detained person was kept away. Shifts were set up. At various times, not necessarily during this investigation, people from other units on the Security Branch were seconded to the Investigation Unit, where they would help in this process. You'd work two-two shifts, three eight ...

ADV GCABASHE: They are, just to get this right again, they are the people who formed part of the overall committee that was guiding all the units in Tokoza. The central committee is what they called it, I think.

MR VISSER: Yes. And is it your experience also that some of the members of units, were active in more than one unit at any one time?

MR J F KOK: Chairperson, we were one section within the unit, we were the mechanical section within the unit. I cannot recall what the total was, but we worked on a Head Office basis on a national level, and then there were branches in the regions as well, with smaller units.

Probabilities favour a construction that the normal 3 weeks deployment of Vlakplaas units, in this present instance at Josini, was either schedules for 2 weeks only, or reduced to 2 weeks only, that the unit returned to Vlakplaas not later than Sunday the 22nd September and reported at ...

... fact not even mine one I shared with a friend. There was a grate deal of intelligence and sophistication - the sophistication that only lay within units such as the CCB and it certainly bough the [indistinct] of the CCB whether it was particular. So I say to the Commission I would like to ...

MR JOSEPH: And one of the means they employed was that one way or another, they were able to get people to act as informers, to infiltrate units and to give back intelligence to the Security Services, who then used to act on that intelligence, is that correct?

... Well Mr Moti, that was the evidence of Mr Maseko and certainly also the evidence of the General insofar as that Mr Maseko was in charge of those units or the departments or whoever fell under the Repossession Unit reported to Mr Maseko and also the evidence of the General was that Mr Diseko ...

I can't say that all were implicated directly in the planning and execution of the murder, but they've all been involved in the same security force units indicating a knowledge of who was responsible and a failure to disclose the knowledge, thereby becoming parties to the conspiracy to protect ...

Commissioner Gcabashe, it cannot be ruled out that Nortje is correct in what he had told you because there may well have been more than one group or Units in Krugersdorp at the ...

CHAIRPERSON: And the reason why you went to rob was to enable your unit and other units to be armed, using the firearms that you would have stolen from the farms.

The deceased, Mr Nyanda, was according to information obtained from an informer, the commander of the ANC units operating from Swaziland. The applicant testified that he received instructions from Brigadier Schoon and General Steenkamp to go to Swaziland an eliminate Nyanda. They stayed in a ...

MS VAN DER WALT: So you did not only act against anti-insurgence units but you gave training in explosives?

this section.  Botha was head of the Intelligence component of the section.  All the Applicants were policemen or askaris and were part of these ...

... the Committee, because this is something that may not be well known about Vlakplaas, a while before it was disbanded as a Unit, the Unit became two Units so to speak and operated from two different premises apparently. Could you explain briefly what happened there, just so that we can create the ...

... was operating at Esikhawini. And at the same time it appears as if you were also operating under another unit. You were reporting to a number of units. You're reporting to branch commander, Capt Masinga and at the same time reporting to Maj Langene who was the head of the hit squad unit. Is ...

been approached by an ANC unit and asked whether they should go and plant a bomb at the supermarket, I would have said: "of course not" but when our units are faced with what is happening all around them, it is understandable that some of them should say: "Well I may have to face being disciplined ...

MR VAN DER MERWE: In this regard, your unit was mainly applied as a support unit that assisted some of the other units who operated in the field.