self-protection units (SPUs)

MR MTHEMBU: I just heard you now mentioning defence units, could you just in brief explain to the Committee what role the defence units played at the time?MR MONYAKE: The role played by the defence units by that time was to defend the community of Maukeng, the community as a whole against the ...

ADV MPSHE: Good and I want to put to you that we know of repossession units, not so? You know about repossession units as well?

MS VAN DER WESTHUIZEN: Now these units that you mentioned earlier on in your evidence, how many units were there in Polla Park?

... were specifically instructed by Mr Oliver Tambo as well as the National Executive Council of the ANC to reassert the ANC policy to operational units as to the avoidance of purely civilian targets and he reiterated at that, failure to comply with these orders would be considered as a ...

However their applications overlap to other actions by their sub-units. However the applicants were able to make contact only with one such sub-unit which was the Basil February Unit in Duduza, and could only give details about the actions of this unit. Even though the applicants could not ...

MR KOOPEDI: Do I understand you then to say that there would have been other Units in the area and he would be responsible for those Units, but for your Unit, Stanza would have been the Commander?

... se your identity per se. You might withhold certain information yes, which you know will compromise those that were in existence in your specific units, but to say: "I am an APLA member" then, I don't see any problem in it, but the holding of information thereof, ...

... we proceeded to Lesotho and then in Lesotho we illegally crossed into South Africa. Our mission at this point in time was to form self-defence units in the Vaal, but we would be based in the Free State so ...(indistinct, at our own discretion we'd go to the East Rand, continue organising ...

CHAIRPERSON: Was it normal for your Units not necessarily yours specifically, to obtain ammunition from the members of the IFP?

The Committee takes into consideration that it was common knowledge that during the 1990's self defence units were formed by the community. For the applicant to say that the "street defence units" were formed by the community as well, is highly improbable. The argument that this is a question of ...

MR MILLER: Do you know whether he was part of the ANC's Self Defence Units?

MR DU PLESSIS: Could you distinguish the Investigative Unit at that Security Branch from the other units of the Security Branch which were working there?

Now I think it is important to say something about our units. Each sabotage unit consisted of four members, with a unit leader, and four such units constituted a platoon.

... on this campaign of landmines. That it was decided upon at Military Headquarters and the same page specifies the instructions that went out to the units involved. We've all read ...

would request askaris from Head Office, from the South African Police, then the Head Office through Colonel De Kock, would be able to deploy various units to various places which had made a request for askaris to come and help them. So it is my belief that we went to Krugersdorp because of the ...

CHAIRPERSON: Sorry, Mr Ngubane, if I could just ask a question for clarification? Mr Lethuli, I see from your affidavit here at page 287 you refer to Wards 8 and 9, and in paragraph 25.8.1 you talk about Units 4 and Unit 10, is there a difference between a ward and a unit, or is it the same thing?

MR MAPOMA: Thank you Chairperson. Mr Sonti, let’s start on the formation of the self defence units. Were you at Moleleki when the self defence units were formed? Moleleki section?

ADV PRIOR: Were those two distinct units or did they fall under the umbrella of the kwaMashu unit, I don't quite understand?

MR VAN DER WESTHUIZEN: With the purpose of obtaining further information with regard to other units and his units.

MR RAMMUSI: Political as well as military units.