self-protection units (SPUs)

... thing, if I recall correctly, this thing started after the Dawid Protter incident and a report was written and it was said that certain specialist units had to be founded and then the Task Force was founded, and from there the Unrest Unit was ...

ADV GCABASHE: Can I just then ask, in respect of the protection duties you did in the community. Did you join the self-defence units of the ANC or did you operate your own type of protection separately to those of, in fact, either the SDUs, which were the ANC's or the SPUs which was the Inkatha ...

... to the second applicant, the third applicant and the first applicant. The first, third and second applicants were in command positions and had units operating under their control so they tried to identify in the course of the evidence and in the documentation those acts for which they accept ...

MR BERGER: You also bear no knowledge of any self-protection units set up to defend the residents of kwaMadala Hostel?

... the illegal distribution and buying of firearms, amongst others, AK guns, hand grenades, explosives and I told her that I'd try to use the firearm units to help her. As far as I know she was also informed by the Gold and Diamond Branch to deal with the firearms unit in ...

MR VAN DEN BERG: And the description of these units as Security Units, is that correct?

MR HATTINGH: I think that at that stage the Unit had been subdivided into three sub-Units which were stationed at different places, but nothing is really important regarding that. I think that the section over which you had direct command, is more important. Even though you were the Overall ...

knowing who actually was in the jurists of the commanders who reported to me as well as prevented me from knowing broader intimate details of other units that were being commanded by ourselves as a command cadre, meaning Belgium, Sihle, Lulamele, Sibongiseni and myself. I had no opportunity to ...

MR MAHLAKAONE: In the Eastern Transvaal I was sent to come and format operational units so that we must operate effectively and so that I must even command the units.

... the lumpins. The lumpins in revolutionary terms are criminals, the people known as "tsotsis". He said, "I have recruited the lumpins into units of the Azanian People's Liberation Army and I've gave them instructions that they should go to disarm in order that they arm their unit. ...

The ANC instructions to MK were that they should operate in organisedunits with the following objectives. Deployed units in the ruralareas were instructed to mobilise the local inhabitants. Undergroundunits in the urban complexes and factories and in Black residentialareas were to form combat, ...

MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, no, there were occasions where not only on the East Rand Murder and Robbery unit, but also of the other units, selected members were invited to Vlakplaas, but this incident was not discussed in the canteen.

in mass mobilisation through the organisations to which people belonged. Thirdly, there would be the question of establishing functional propaganda units for the distribution of leaflets and ANC information at home, which is in South Africa, and fourthly, there would be suggestions about possible ...

MR PATEL: Mr Chairman, basically this applicant seeks amnesty for the fact that he was asked for advice regarding the violence in the area. Part of his advice consisted of telling them to set up Self Defence Units firstly.

CHAIRPERSON: But the Self Defence Units were only established in 1993.

MS ANDERSON: We worked in quite tight, you could say cells, units, departments. You had for example Wally working in the cultural section, you had various people working in Intelligence, you had various people working in MK and it was quite tight, the way in which people worked was quite tight, ...

MS ANDERSON: We worked in quite tight, you could say cells, units, departments. You had for example Wally working in the cultural section, you had various people working in Intelligence, you had various people working in MK and it was quite tight, the way in which people worked was quite tight, ...

It is further common knowledge that the call for the establishment of Self Defence Units was made after the suspension of the armed struggle by the African National Congress. And further, there was no stage where the African National Congress called for the disbanding of the SDUs or the ...

And then there would be the line functions, those were the units. There was 1 Reconnaissance Regiment which was stationed in Durban, there was 2 Reconnaissance Regiment which was a civilian unit, there was 4 Reconnaissance Regiment which was stationed at Langebaan and then there was also 5 ...

MR RICHARD: Thank you Sir, I understand that you went backwards and forwards, it's far less complicated. At some time after 1982 you joined the SDUs, the self defence units, when was that?