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self-defence units (SDUs)

Explanation
armed self-defence units set up in the early 1990s by the ANC to protect neighbourhoods

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MR KNOPP: And were you involved at all in the so-called SDUs, Self Defence Units?
The ANC established a system of Self Defence Units to protect themselves and the community at large against attacks. The applicant said that it is in this context that on the 27th August 1992 he approached a motor vehicle (panel van) on the 27th August 1992 in order to get hold of firearms. He ...
I don't want to blame the TRC, the media is inclined to look at these atrocities, but we always use the same names, the same police and Defence Units, but there is no mention made of the majority of people who were in the police and the Defence Force, that they weren't involved in this.
... to gain advances in this conflict. As a result of the conflict the African National Congress ("ANC") devised what has become known as Self Defence Units ("SDU") in order to defend it's members and residents in certain areas in general. They also equipped as far as they could, such members with ...
The applicant applies for amnesty in respect of the role she played in Operation Vula and in the establishment of or assistance rendered to Self-Defence Units.
ADV SIGODI: Because you mentioned yesterday that he was aggressive that you decided to form SDU's, Self Defence Units, do you remember that, yesterday?
... between 1990 and 1993. In other cases amnesty is being sought for acts of robbery of arms and money to organise logistics for the ANC Self Defence Units (SDU's) which were formed to defend its members against Black Cats and the IFP ...
MR SIBANYONI: Yes, thank you, Mr Chairman. Mr Armoed, you said the NYD self defence units were formed were to protect the community. I want to know from you, to protect the community from whom?
... they pursued at the time was to render assistance in the conflict torn Kathlehong where, Nkuna had told them, the ANC's Self Defence Units were protecting the community against their Inkatha Freedom Party opponents. The Applicants trusted Nkuna, and bona fide believed that they ...
strategy from the government to sow a lot of unrest in our townships, and a result of that was we had people being motivated to go into self-defence units and they call themselves in different names. ...
... Hostel were under constant attack by the members of the IFP. It is against this background that the members organised themselves into Self Defence Units (SDU) in order to protect ...
MR SHONGWE: Yes, there was an instruction that we should form Self Defence Units and we should do everything in our power or in our discretion in order to arm ourselves and as the members of the Self Defence Unit, we knew the Black Cat members very well and Bongani was one of the people who played ...
... of other persons in a similar position were told by Chris Hani, the former Chief of Staff of Umkhonto weSizwe that they should form Self Defence Units in the communities in which they lived. Reference to the further submissions made by the African National Congress on 12 May 1997, at page 30 ...
... General, the head of the security police comes and he tells his deputy, "listen, when I'm not here or even if I am here, if people, if operational units have a request for covert operations which involve the elimination of political opponents, you must take that decision or on the other hand you ...
MR NGHOBENI: It was an offence that had been committed by the third force and the guys that it had been committed by the self-defence units and members of uMkhonto weSizwe, that was the crime of killing people. That is why I state that my offence is politically motivated because they wanted to ...
During August 1990 he was instructed by Lombard Moli and the late Chris Hani to infiltrate RSA to form Self Defence Units in the Vaal area and Free State.
MR KOLELA: We wanted to get the weapons so that we could take them to the members of the defence units so that they can use them in trying to protect the people as we were always attacked.
... of firearms as well as the training of people in our area, who would be responsible for protecting the community, in other words Self Defence ...
MS NHLAYISI: Were you a member of the SDUs, that is the Self Defence Units in Thokoza?
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