self-protection units (SPUs)

I can also mention that it was custom for wherever in a certain area there was an increase in terrorist activities, we would deploy units there to assist in the collection of information and also to identify members of the revolutionary organisations which may have infiltrated.

MR BAKER: Mr Chairman, yes, Capt Botha was in charge of Intelligence Units, the MK Intelligence Unit. This operation was basically his, but the overall deployment of the greater team if I can call it as such, actually fell under Col Taylor. I had been there to find out about the deployment of ...

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 WANGA: No we don't know how he used the money but as I've already said we knew that there were other units in other places that needed support, that needed food, so we were not aware or we didn't know whether he did or not but we knew there were people who were needing support.

... and work at Ulundi. He put conditions that he can only come to work at Ulundi if he could be put in charge of any particular unit there. All the units which were existing at Ulundi had their own commanders. Therefore there wasn't any unit in which he could be assign. Therefore they have to ...

... 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 ...

... refusal to admit to the true facts and against the background of a series of incidents in the recent past, perpetrated by their unit and other units, it was not seriously entertained that they could be recruited.  The 4th and 7th Applicants decided that they had to be killed.  It was ...

... 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 ...

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?

... 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 ...

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.

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

... 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 ...

... crime.  He was assigned to a unit which was primarily charged with tracing firearms.  They were also available as a support component to other units doing investigations.  During February 1992 he was approached by Holtzhausen to assist in an operation against robbers at the premises of ...

... instances where people would fight over girlfriends and turn the information around thereafter and therefore all the members of the self defence units had to be able to gather information if a person had evidence about a certain information, that was ...

... three bombs would be the large explosions that occurred and in the Western Transvaal there would be more bombs. Beforehand we discussed that other units of the AWB would continue but that never occurred though Mr ...

Everybody observed that as a fight between Zulu's and Xhosa's. On that meeting of the ANC Youth League, they said that amongst the members of the ANC Youth League and I was also the Chairperson of the Slovo Section, that we must form Self Defence Units.

... in the light of similar concerns raised in the Katzen documents, this points to the modus operandi within the SADF's specialist forces and task units. ...

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.