self-defence units (SDUs)

PRETORIA BULI DAVID GUMBI AM 7577/97 SELF DEFENCE UNITS

DURBAN GWENZAWAKHE NICHOLAS MSANI SELF DEFENCE UNITS

DURBAN PALELA BEKHISENZO HLONGWA SELF DEFENCE UNITS

PRETORIA SONKALANE MOSES MABENA AM 7760/97 SELF DEFENCE UNITS

... his commitment to the liberation effort, was decidedly inspirational to me. It is cadre Molife who recruited me into a local cell of Self Defence Units, which as we came to learn through clandestine political education, were designed to defend the gains of the emancipatory effort and the ...

DR RANDERA: Olga, my last question. Are you saying that your brothers had nothing to do with the self defence units in Tokoza, you said already they were not comrades, but were they not part of community self defence units or the self defence units as we know them?

... ANC). He received extensive military training abroad. In 1991 he was instructed by the army commander, Mr Joe Modise to establish Self Defence Units in order to protect the people in the township from the violence which had engulfed many townships after the ANC had suspended its armed ...

... to the evidence Mr Mametse was the Commander of the Unkhonto weSizwe (MK) Kathorus sub-region and was tasked by the ANC to establish Self Defence Units (SDU's) in the area. Mr Moele was second in command in the area. They were both trained MK soldiers and members of the ANC. Mr Mametse ...

... weSizwe as a member of a Self Defence Unit, which had been established by the ANC. The Committee has heard a great deal of evidence about such units which has been confirmed by submissions made by the ANC to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 12 May 1997. This confirms that such ...

... had a very important submission to the Truth Commission made by the Tokoza Branch of the ANC. The submission is essentially on the self defence units, it's an attempt to very honestly look at the role of the self defence units, both as victims and sometimes as also committing violations. We ...

MR GUSHU: Chairperson, as the self defence units are trained with the residents of these areas, they knew who I would get weapons from to buy for them, the members of the self defence units.

... and finalised.  Applicant's amnesty application form also refers to activities in regard to the establishment and equipping of Self-Defence Units.  Save to indicate that these activities occurred on the instructions of Ronnie Kasrils, no details had been furnished in respect thereof.  ...

MR RAVEN: Here I gave lectures on surveillance and counter-surveillance. I also had to give the same lectures to members of various units of the SAP, example SANAP, Housebreaking Squads and Units of the South African Defence Force.

"The forms of armed action and self-defence activity varied. The march revolutionary violence of the people, units to protect leaders of people's committees and democratic organisations. A system of patrolling the streets and warning signals, units to harass enemy patrols, attacks on enemy ...

It is common cause that they were all members of the self-defence units (SDU’s) established in Thokoza, Gauteng by the African National Congress (ANC).

... women, to emphasise a point that most of the deceased and injured, were not people who ordinarily might be considered to be members of Self Defence Units. The other point for putting in this analysis of common cause facts, is to show that it is largely common cause, the main routes upon which ...

... wing of the African National Congress (ANC), the applicant infiltrated South Africa in 1985. In 1990 he assisted in setting up the Self - Defence Units (SDUs) in order to defend the communities, mostly supporters and/or members of the ANC. With him he brought an unknown amount of firearms ...

MR SIBANYONI: Now you, the people who were patrolling, were you structured in a form of self defence units or it was just people who volunteered from the community to patrol?

ADV SIGODI: Were you aware of the presence of Self Defence Units in the township?

MR WESSELS: Was there any other way that you could get hold of firearms for use by the self-defence units?