self-defence units (SDUs)

... and the members of the Toaster gang on one side and the ANC people living in Tembisa on the other. Consequently the ANC formed Self Defence Units to protect their supporters as well as the residents. This they did because the South African Police was perceived to be collaborating with ...

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).

      Self Defence Units

... and I will regard those issues to be of common cause, that all the applicants were active members of the ANC and they were involved in Self Defence Units of the ANC and also members of the MK ...

JUDGE PILLAY: One of the applications for amnesty you make is in respect of possession of firearms that you produced and supplied to members of the self-defence Units in Gauteng. Do you know where these arms came from?

... with the full knowledge of the police forces and at times with their help. Our communities, together with the ANC, decided to form Self Defence Units, that is SDUs, in order to protect our ...

... the 25th of November 1998. This is a sitting of the Amnesty Committee in regard to the applications of members of the Thokoza Self Defence Units. The panel is as before and Advocate Steenkamp appears for the Commission as the Leader of ...

... ("MK"), the military wing of the African National Congress ("ANC"). At the relevant time he was a highly placed MK operative and commander of units inside the country. He also worked closely with Lieutenant-General Siphiwe Nyanda, a former MK member and presently the Chief of the South ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

was required to buy weapons to arm and defend ANC supporters. The order came from one Mshishi Nzimande, a local commander in charge of Self-Defence Units. He had supplied him with two firearms and a knife. He had no previous training in the use of firearms. Nzimande also gave him the authority ...

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.

... structures, used various elements. A special relationship existed between the SABC TV and radio news departments and the Intelligence community's units responsible for STRATCOM. And there was in fact a war for the hearts and minds of the target community and the State was at a disadvantage ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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

... was an ongoing political battle between the IFP hostel dwellers and the ANC people living in the nearby township. The ANC thus formed Self Defence Units (SDU) to protect their supporters as well as the residents. This they did because the South African Police did nothing to prevent or stop the ...

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

... 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 ...

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?