self-defence units (SDUs)

... 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 ...

... PAC, were also drawn into the conflict. All of the Applicants were members of the ANC and some participated in the activities of the Self-Defence Units ("SDU") established by the ANC in the area in question. Some of the Applicants had undergone military training under the auspices of MK. We ...

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

and within those files there are harassment’s and torture of every comrade and every organisation. And I want to put something clear, if we talk of units we talk of White units and then Coloured units and Black units. I want to put this clear that is why I would say these files would put this ...

... I duly proceeded with my mandate. I recruited for the ANC and trained many people in the usage of firearms and explosives. I formed various units which I commanded and also supplied the said units with literature and operational material. My co-applicant, Sipho Mthembu, belonged to one ...

MR OOSTHUIZEN: Chairperson, one cannot say how many persons, it depends how many Units participate. In this regard two Units, the Intelligence Unit and the Operational arm, it would be the Heads of those two Units who would have co-ordinated and have given their approval and authorisation.

... paternal aunt which was Mrs Ncumbuti. There was a mayor at the time at Mtansani location, he was Mr Gordon Nqumsa, he's dead now. There are many units there at Mtansani, Unit 1 and 2 were macadamised and the other roads were untarred in the other units. The people started complaining about ...

MR LAMEY: Now, also just to confirm a bit of the background, the operational workings of Vlakplaas were such that Units comprising of black permanent force members of Vlakplaas as well as askaris were often, with the approval of the Officer Commanding of Vlakplaas, sent out to assist other units, ...

... of allegations of torture at the security branch in Protea. On a more personal level, I’ve had quite a lot of experience with murder and robbery units and allegations of torture by murder and robbery units - the use of electric shocks, the use of suffocation methods and so forth. ...

landmines in this area, Mr Kasrils will not be in a position to give you any details about those details due to the fact that he was not part of the units that were in this area that carried out these operations. He was also not even part of the command structure, or the Commanders that commanded ...

... as if not having authorised the specific actions. It is submitted that the actions of units of Vlakplaas, Koevoet and other counter-insurgency units were silently if not directly authorised by the government, and were used outside the normal system to form part of the government’s ...

MR DE KOCK: Yes. I just want to expand further. All my units were Black, all the units in which I served which I helped to establish and where I and some of my colleagues fought on the ground, there were no races, there were only members of the unit or there were no Whites or Blacks.

During the monitoring of this unit, it became apparent that the command structure of the unit set itself the goal of establishing MK- units within the already volatile labour field for the training of workers to commit acts of terror. SWT 180 was tasked by Shope to establish so-called Industrial ...

... the pace because the General was sitting next-door here, or the Colonel was sitting next-door here, he could play with the little toy and tell his units: "Units converge, we've got them here, they're next to us." Every move they made they were covered by radio, all the way. They could have ...

MR KRUSER: Initially in the morning I sent out small units to do surveillance in and around Shell House, also later on we developed surveillance units and commanded to monitor the events of the marches throughout town so we could get feedback what was happening in town and the direction the marches ...

I was exposed to counter-insurgency training both in South Africa and externally in Rhodesia. I had the opportunity of serving operationally with units like the British/South African Police and especially the Partu units as it was known, the Police Anti-tracking Unit, the Rhodesian African ...

CAPT KOJA: In regard to the Kompol building, because we worked with different Units, there were different policemen who stayed at the barracks, it was possible that he would go there to those Units and deliver the post.

... was in 1981, March, that was a basic course because in the Police Force that ...(indistinct) assignments that differed according to the different units. The units would tell us how our enemies operate and what we were supposed to do and the basic course we were told as to how to question a ...

... a bit of a shift in the approach as to when it comes to stopping the terrorism and fighting it, this unit as an investigation unit divided into two units or sub-units if I can call it that, Chairperson. Mainly in command was Colonel Andy Taylor with an investigation unit directly under his ...

MR MWELASE: I wouldn't know because there are different units. Some units may have done things like that but I didn't know. My work was just to identify the people.