self-protection units (SPUs)

On the 11th, I met with my co-comrades, whom were serving as Self Defence Units at Flagstaff. The name of the comrade was Vuyani Nyalukana. We discussed the issue of the assassination of comrade Chris Hani together.

Evidence was led that Ms Ndwandwe was in fact released from custody after she had made a Section 29 statement in writing and that she thereafter lay low for a while and then struck up units from those, involving those people of the APMC who had not been arrested in December of the previous year.

MR KOOPEDI: I need to understand this correctly, did you belong to one unit or to different units, or in this one unit, if you belonged in one unit, there was more than one Commander?

MR MOOIJ: Or units as you call is. You were always the same unit, you didn't belong to two separate units?

Situation: The policy of the RSA as far as the safety of the Republic is concerned, requires that Defence Force formations and units are deployed inside or outside the territory. The SA Defence Force operational strategy requires offensive actions in neighbouring countries.

MR BENZIEN: The police or the other Units came to the scene. A video recording was made, photographs were taken, the whole scene was put on film for future court procedures.

... whether such "membership" was formal or otherwise.  He was also in a position to provide weapons and ammunition to members of the Self-Defence Units when these were established in the 1990's.  His activities in this regard do not strain the imagination when one has regard to the nature ...

"When we got to Boipatong we came across a group of Self Defence Units."

... I would just like to explain the situation that he as an activist, we regarded him as an activist. The information which was obtained by other units which were focused on the labour market or focused on the Civics, this information, especially where there was an ANC connotation, the ...

And that is when SANCO took a decision that it had to establish a group that was going to protect the residents. Thereafter SANCO established these Self Defence Units. After a while I was appointed as one of the leaders of the Self Defence Unit in the region of Site B in Khayelitsha.

MR BUTHELEZI: Yes, it was well-known that the Self Defence Units were to be attacked.

MS BRIDJLALL: But Mr Mosiane, if there were two units on the same operation, would they not communicate with each other as to what was going on, what your task was and what their task would be?

MR MKHIZE: What I had in my mind, was that people who were attacking us, were the Self Defence Units. We had already heard that they were patrolling the streets at night, and these are the people that we wanted to attack and kill, because they were the ones who were burning people.

Mr de Kock says that is what Engelbrecht says, but in practice he, de Kock, was the driving force behind these things, he called in all these other units and so on to orientate his ...

The manner in which we were fighting would changed from time to time according to the strategy that was used by the resistance organisations and the units would be established according to the situation prevailing at the time. All of us, though we were in the Security Force, but our units were ...

"Gordon was really my senior although now in a different command. The moment he was captured, I assumed command of both units. I then assembled both units and put a plan into place to attempt a rescue. The reconnaissance took place on a daily basis at the hospital and over a lengthy period."

ANSWER:: It was discussed every morning in what they referredto as the "San Hedron", it was a meeting of all thesection heads or heads of units at the head office, this was referredto as the "San Hedron".

MR PATEL: And finally you claim amnesty for a general instruction to set up self-defence units who were to illegally arm themselves and to protect themselves in the community from unlawful attacks and at all costs to achieve stability in the area, do you confirm that?

You see the problem with our structures is that the first rear from behind, will never know the sixth one from behind him, you see. It was a matter of different units will only know the command structure, but they only know each other.

Now what distinguished in your mind, Special Operations from other MK units?