self-protection units (SPUs)

... met Carl, and to a military structure which I think was based in Swaziland. The instructions that we had given Carl were purely to form ANC units amongst Afrikaner intellectuals. Those two sets of photographs were not taken under our ...

The deceased, Mr Nyanda, was according to information obtained from an informer, the commander of the ANC units operating from Swaziland. The applicant testified that he received instructions from Brigadier Schoon and General Steenkamp to go to Swaziland an eliminate Nyanda. They stayed in a ...

... fact not even mine one I shared with a friend. There was a grate deal of intelligence and sophistication - the sophistication that only lay within units such as the CCB and it certainly bough the [indistinct] of the CCB whether it was particular. So I say to the Commission I would like to ...

MR JOSEPH: And one of the means they employed was that one way or another, they were able to get people to act as informers, to infiltrate units and to give back intelligence to the Security Services, who then used to act on that intelligence, is that correct?

... ("MK"), the military wing of the African National Congress ("ANC"). At the relevant time he was a highly placed MK operative and commander of units inside the country. He also worked closely with Lieutenant-General Siphiwe Nyanda, a former MK member and presently the Chief of the South ...

MR STRYDOM: Were you happy with the policing which was done by the Self Defence Units?

ADV GCABASHE: They are, just to get this right again, they are the people who formed part of the overall committee that was guiding all the units in Tokoza. The central committee is what they called it, I think.

... him with a Stechkin pistol and ammunition.  Applicant was instructed to participate in the military training of members of the Self-Defence Units ("SDU") in Tembisa, which he duly did.  Applicant reported to Thwala and Radebe in regard to the SDU training.  During this time, Applicant ...

... operation. We find it difficult to accept that it was the practice of members of the Security Police to participate in operations outside their units without the approval of their immediate commander, and the applicant has not given evidence to this effect. It is our view that the applicant ...

ADV GCABASHE: Were you the first SDU unit to arrive at that place, or did the other units get there before you?

MR KHUBEKA: I think I had been a member of IFP long ago, because my mother used to own IFP, or run IFP drama units(?), before the IFP had these five colours on their logos, then they had only three colours, that is when I took full membership of the IFP.

Now, you came back to South Africa and you were sent by the MK leaders to terrorise - to mobilise and train the units. Did you get any opportunity to do that, or you were arrested even before you tried? --- Oh, there was a spy, a traitor, who came by and all my mission fell apart.

JUDGE WILSON: Well, did they not, I was interested in that and I thought the answer, answered that and I do not think, we used the money to feed ourselves when we were on duty as self-defence units.

MR PRINSLOO: Chairperson, to give you a broad background, at that time there was information from several sources of so-called units of MK, who operated in Northern Transvaal and Bophuthatswana area, adjacent to Northern Transvaal and with my contemporary in Bophuthatswana I made contact and on a ...

... and he was also very active inside South Africa around the Soweto area which made our work quite difficult in a sense that around that time many units which were operating in the country were either arrested or they were actually drawn into a situation whereby there could be crossfire with the ...

one of those who participated in the concept of operation butterfly, that he discussed it with other leaders and that they then gave instructions to units who were to go back into the country, into Natal and set up organisations to carry out all the aims of Operation Butterfly, all the objects ...

The senior organs formed in neighbouring countries consisted of senior leaders and specialists in the building of the political underground and mass mobilisation, as well as commanders of armed units.

And as a border worker he was responsible for the infiltration of MK into Natal and the subsequent movement of weapons with those units and responsible for acts of terror within this province."

... the political intimidation and murderous assaults that were meted out on them and residents in general. Residents of the area set up Self-Defence Units ("SDUs") to protect themselves. Money was collected and weapons were purchased to repel the attacks. There were attacks and counter-attacks ...

... in South Africa, his later training in Angola and his connections with the late Chris Hani. After his return to South Africa all underground units of MK assembled to meet with Hani. He, as the Unit Commander, and his unit members, Lincoln, Wiseman and Mabuja (all three since deceased) were ...