self-protection units (SPUs)

MR LAMEY: Would it be correct to say that it would be unsafe to interview, to get information from informers at the Police Units, at Soweto Security Branch and so on?

ADV GCABASHE: With regard to other Intelligence services operating in Swaziland, Military Intelligence or any other units from the PWV area, who were you in contact with? Who did you co-ordinate your activities with?

MR NAUDE: He told us that because of the political situation in South Africa, the necessity had arisen that we be divided to SAP units and we had to act in support of the Northern Transvaal Commando and the Wits Commando. I was devolved to the Wits Commando.

MR HATTINGH: And you have already testified in this document previously, that you as the Commander of Vlakplaas from time to time had to return to Head Office in order to report about the activities of your units there and the information that you had obtained there.

"At all relevant times to date, since January 1 1974, I was a member of the Permanent Force and an officer involved with various units of the SANDF."

"red Langley from a certain person in one of the Mdantsane units and we drove to Fort Hare where we took arms and proceeded to Fort Beaufort but when we arrived the hotel was closed and we came back and dropped the arms at Nxlelo location in Alice. We were a unit of three this time, it was myself ...

4.    The supplying of ammunition stored at Vlakplaas to other units of the South African Police during the period that the Applicant was stationed at Vlakplaas;

He pointed out that he was very impress with the reservations that we had had on the document For the Sake of Our Lives, that is the document that deals with the establishment of community based Self Defence Units.

MR BELLINGAN: If I understand the Chairperson correctly, other Units were used for their own operations?

"Many of the established MK units had been allowed a degree of initiative in executing their operations as long as they remained within the policy guidelines."

MR HATTINGH: Can you tell the Committee, apart from the applicants whose names appear in the documents, were there any other members of police units who were involved in this incident?

"We were regarded as Self Defence Units."

... That the words that he, Mr Raven had ascribed to Williamson in his affidavit, namely that the Schoon's used their children as "bomb disposal units", were not necessarily Mr Williamson's words, but that he could not remember clearly the source from which these words had come, that it is all ...

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?

... at that stage autopsies were done locally and at the end of these political autopsies as far as I know, then they started to refer the corpses to units where the autopsies were ...

MR FERNANDEZ: At C-Section we operated in two units. The one was the Defectors' Section and the other was the Investigating Team. Both these sections fell beneath the command of Capt Cloete.

MS VILAKAZI: Now how many units were operating in your unit. Do you have any information on that?

perhaps, have related to one of the other units, but I did not have knowledge of that and I cannot remember

... and as the struggle developed, in many instances there was no way in which we could keep track of the activities of individual operatives and units in the country and that they carried out actions which we did not know about which they did not report and so it is quite possible yes, what ...

... you are going to give us an insight into what was happening to young people in the area and what happened to them as they joined the Self Defence Units in the East Rand, thank you very ...