self-defence units (SDUs)

ADV POTGIETER: And you said they had nothing to do with any operations, they were just basically training, establishing units?

... they had to go to Hammanskraal so that they had to undergo crash courses to become policemen, because they had to be placed out to, sent to other ...

MR WILLIAMS: Maybe I should ask that to Mr van Zyl. Then I also want to ask you Sir, if one of the units had to for example burn down a premises did they have to seek your authority for that?

"Constable Mooi fed 25 units in the cells with coffee and bread: 25 mugs: no complaints"

bases but it’s operations were for a long time restricted to intelligence gathering operations overseas. Special forces consisted of reconnaissance units and a small group known as D40 which eventually became Barnacle and then the ...

... to visit with the witness, as through the passage of time, he is unfortunately unable to recall precisely the dates when he was with certain units and when the transfers took place. Maybe you could just clarify that for the members of the ...

MR ZAKWE: The firearms that were there after being collected from the other Units, we took them because they were not doing what they were supposed to do, we took them to the ANC Youth League and the others were given to the MK members in the area, and after some time, some of them were confiscated ...

GEN J J VIKTOR: That is correct. The Unrest Unit or Riot Units were involved in controlling unrest, particularly in Black areas.

in his absence Dube gave them.  Evidence was led that Dumakude, as the Commander of Special Operations, commanded a number of other underground  units and the Applicants' unit was only one amongst them.  he had to do a wide variety of tasks and was in and out of the country.  It is also ...

MR BERGER: Subsequent to the explosion, did you report your participation, your units participation in that bombing to the leadership of the ANC?

... James Bolo and Sipho Samuel Gavin, appearing in a set of photographs. I've never seen the aforementioned persons and they have never been in my units and even among the cadres I have trained. The only person I recognise in those set of photographs was Sipho Xuma, who was both the Director of ...

... when we did manage to raise funds this money would be used by the unit, for instance to transport weapons because we used to link with other units, some in Natal, so we had to have money for transport to go ...

The two units now, had to have different Commanders. On the other unit in which I was in, it was ...(indistinct), he was the Commander.

... getting together having a braaivleis andswopping bush stories. What it is, is SWAPO, ANC, APLA, UhmkontoweSizwe, Koevoet, Rekkies, all the units every single unit everybodywho ever was trained in any way militarily getting together andjust trying to make some kind of sense of the mess we ...

MR MHLABA: And what was the chain of command, were you supposed to report back to your commander or anyone of the units could go and talk to your commander?

CHAIRPERSON: And what department - was he from the Riot Squad units, was he from ...(intervention)

... a lot of issues. Perhaps it was also in our discussion, but I cannot say for sure, because we were not talking about the specific targets that the units were supposed to attack. It could have been possible that he did talk to me about his target that he was about to attack, but I never ...

MR LYSTER: All right, Mr Shabangu, you said that you - you just gave us a brief account of the different units in which you served - the Murder & Robbery. --- That's correct.

The Applicants testified that they were both commanders of two separate units. The attack on the abovementioned houses were planned by the First Applicant on the instructions of Apla but he had the authority to identify the specific targets.

MR MADIKIZELA: I'm instructed by Col Fetman that he also visited the scene as a senior officer who was not commanding any of the units that were there. What do you say to that?