self-defence units (SDUs)

MR MALINDI: Through your Intelligence work, were you aware that MK units did not know of operational details of other units?

MR PRETORIUS: That would be the second reason and the third reason was that she also told us that she had to go around to other Units, she had to service other Units, that was the terminology that they used. We knew that the ANC at that stage, if you can recall, there were no communications ...

... by his organisation, to make such a drastic decision. If one looks at the fact that he was a commander, instructed to form a Unit and arm these Units for operations against the government, this will lead us to whether he needed approval or to act on orders with regard to matters of safety of ...

Later in 1989 and 1990 it was decided that formal Stratcom units with full-time Stratcom representatives be created at all security branches all over South Africa prior to the creation of a formal or full time unit Stratcom units were coordinated in Johannesburg by a few individuals who were given ...

The relationship between the Security Branch, Murder and Robbery, Stratcom Divisions, other units of the South African Police with regard to Mrs Mandela and the football club. I'm aware that there was a Stratcom Unit at the Security Branch in Pretoria and also at the Security Branch Witwatersrand, ...

MR XULU: We had - yes, in the unit that took Makwasenge out of this ...(indistinct) we were four. Then only the three of us that participated. And we had many units. It wasn't the only unit. We had task units. For a certain mission there will be a unit for ...(intervention)

... was a criminal against humanity and the farmers werepart and parcel of the apartheid government as we all know that they had formedthe Commando Units and all those ...

JUDGE MILLER: I don't know Ms Thabethe, my experience, and I might be wrong, is that a unit was a small unit of people who carried out a specific operation, whereas you might get a number of units operating in the same area. Now are you asking what his particular ...?

I became a member of the Special Ops machinery in 1986. It was at a time when I was based at Lusaka in Zambia. I was infiltrated into the country late in 1986. I had the mandate to form a number of my own unit, which I did and these units were operating in the former PWV area.

CHAIRPERSON: Yes I think because APLA consisted of hundreds of units and I think to refer to APLA as a unit is a bit misleading, it was an army.

MR VALLY: Are you aware of MK units operating from any of Mrs Madikizela-Mandela’s residences?

MR COETZEE: Chairperson, as a member of their military wing, he coordinated all their activities and he was directly in command of their military activities and everything that was committed by the military units was known by him and coordinated by him and sanctioned by him.

security police acted, turned a blind eye thereto, as not having authorised these specific actions. It is however submitted that the actions of the units of Vlakplaas, Koevoet and other counter-insurgency units was silent if not directly authorised by the government and were used outside the ...

We would include within those particular definitions of SAP and SADF, particular activities of organised hitsquads. Nasty individuals and units from within the kwaZulu police who have become implicated in a whole range of activities.

... 1987, I cannot recall the precise date, the MK Intelligence Unit of the Security Branch collected information regarding locally trained combat units of MK's activities in the Durban environment and particularly in kwaMashu and Inanda. According to information a woman from kwaMashu, Nthombi ...

MR MPSHE: Operations carried out by the PAC in the operation units.

MR BERGER: Who was the person on that structure who had contact with the units, the cadres? For example, did you have contact with the unit?

... of the ANC is that they have not authorised such actions. In Applicant's view, the political leadership did not give express authority to MK units to commit robberies but left the raising of funds to the initiative of the units. The position of the leadership was that the course of action ...

... connection of the arrest of Thandi Modise who was an underground operative and Sizwe happened to be the courier between Thandi Modise and the other units whom I don't know their names. But then when Sizwe arrived in Mozambique or rather first in Swaziland, that's where he first wrote his ...

MR BERGER: All of these units fell under the Transvaal Urban Machinery, is that correct?