self-defence units (SDUs)

... referred to as "the 3rd Applicant") all apply for amnesty in respect of the roles played by themselves in the establishment of Self Defence Units (SDU's) in KwaZulu Natal during the period 1990 to 1994, particularly in regard to the unlawful procurement and distribution of weapons. ...

... between the armed struggle of uMkhonto weSizwe and the ANC on the one side and the internal situation which has developed around the self defence units which is common cause I'm quite sure or is largely formed by the ANC although to an extent it was also a community initiative. So you'll ...

... and members of the Security Forces, viz the South African Police Force ("SAP"). Initially, the Applicant was solely a member of the Self-Defence Units ("SDUs") local structures which were set up by the ANC to enable its supporters to defend themselves in the ongoing violence. Vusi Vilakazi ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

As a result of the above, units were formed within the Security Branch to fight "fire with fire".  The 4th applicant as overall Commander of the northern Transvaal Security Branch sanctioned units and individuals under control of the 2nd applicant to respond to incidents of violence with ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

Sir, would it be correct to describe Operation Butterfly as an attempt by Umkhonto weSizwe to increase the number of units, MK units operational in the Durban and surrounding area. Is that one way of putting it?

... by Steyn, that they were actively concealing this from de Beer, indicates that there wasn't a convergence or a co-operation between the two units, it wasn't as if de Beer was acting with the knowledge that these two were being dealt with by Botha. There was an active concealment going on ...

MR MAMANI: Firstly, the armoury that was inside the country were being used by the units that were existent that as I have mentioned that I came back after indemnity in 1991, I didn't come back with any armoury from outside the country. Whatever supply was there it belonged to certain units.

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.

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 ...

... 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 ...

ADV GCABASHE: Did you ever put any of the operative SDU units into the houses? I will just use a quick example. For instance the houses at Khumalo Street, so that you could shoot into the hostels across the road. That is just as an example, but were you ever involved in giving SDU units that ...

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.