self-defence units (SDUs)

MR DEHAL: Now did you and the other applicants form a part of the Self Defence Units? Were you members of this unit?

MR KNOPP: And were you involved at all in the so-called SDUs, Self Defence Units?

At Angola where I was an MK instructor until 1990. I came back to South Africa and I was at Transkei, responsible for the Self Defence Units, as an order it was given ...(Xhosa) to train people in order to defend themselves. I was the instructor in the underground houses.

... as a result of third force activities, the leadership of the ANC established and in some instances encouraged the establishment of Self Defence Units (SDUs), which played a critical role in the defence of defenceless ...

The ANC supporters organised themselves into Self Defence Units and the applicant assisted them from time to time, providing them with ammunition. He resolved to assist them further by providing them with firearms.

person, but then he has been entrusted with this duty on the ground to make sure that there is peace. He says he was involved with the Self Defence Units and the ANC except that the Self-Defence Unit was formed and the purpose for which it was formed, what the would have been the purpose for it ...

... plentiful, we don't know how these drugs got into the township and we were told that this committee should work hand-in-hand with the Self Defence Units so that the community can reduce the level of gangsterism in the township. And the ISU which was also operating in the area was also taking ...

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.

During 1991, in equipping the Self Defence Units (SDU) to perform their operation, the applicant was involved in being in unlawful custody of an unknown number of firearms and ammunition. He also distributed these to members of the SDU’s.

... Joseph Mofekeng and Vusi and Jabo, that is Gyza. We were discussing about the possible solutions, particularly to build, to formulate Self Defence Units so that we could protect the community because people were killed in ...

... 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 ...

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.

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. ...

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?

... causes a bit of a problem because he's also involved in the hearing that our colleagues are attending to elsewhere, also in regard to Self Defence Units. Of course he's not freely available for this session. In fact I believe that he is an applicant in the other proceedings, so he will really ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

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.

... I can put it like that. The aim was to defend the community and to advance the cause of freedom. The agents of this were the MK and Self Defence Units. In this instance the applicant was acting within the structure of the ...