self-protection units (SPUs)

entered Moshweshwe, I was in the front. The person who was next to me is Damarra, I'm sure of that. When we approached the corner the self defence units were in front of us. The shooting started and they ran away. We chased after them. As we were chasing after them, there were many people ...

ADV GCABASHE: Can I just then ask, in respect of the protection duties you did in the community. Did you join the self-defence units of the ANC or did you operate your own type of protection separately to those of, in fact, either the SDUs, which were the ANC's or the SPUs which was the Inkatha ...

... to the second applicant, the third applicant and the first applicant. The first, third and second applicants were in command positions and had units operating under their control so they tried to identify in the course of the evidence and in the documentation those acts for which they accept ...

MR BERGER: You also bear no knowledge of any self-protection units set up to defend the residents of kwaMadala Hostel?

... the illegal distribution and buying of firearms, amongst others, AK guns, hand grenades, explosives and I told her that I'd try to use the firearm units to help her. As far as I know she was also informed by the Gold and Diamond Branch to deal with the firearms unit in ...

MR VAN DEN BERG: And the description of these units as Security Units, is that correct?

MR HATTINGH: I think that at that stage the Unit had been subdivided into three sub-Units which were stationed at different places, but nothing is really important regarding that. I think that the section over which you had direct command, is more important. Even though you were the Overall ...

knowing who actually was in the jurists of the commanders who reported to me as well as prevented me from knowing broader intimate details of other units that were being commanded by ourselves as a command cadre, meaning Belgium, Sihle, Lulamele, Sibongiseni and myself. I had no opportunity to ...

The ANC instructions to MK were that they should operate in organisedunits with the following objectives. Deployed units in the ruralareas were instructed to mobilise the local inhabitants. Undergroundunits in the urban complexes and factories and in Black residentialareas were to form combat, ...

in mass mobilisation through the organisations to which people belonged. Thirdly, there would be the question of establishing functional propaganda units for the distribution of leaflets and ANC information at home, which is in South Africa, and fourthly, there would be suggestions about possible ...

MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, no, there were occasions where not only on the East Rand Murder and Robbery unit, but also of the other units, selected members were invited to Vlakplaas, but this incident was not discussed in the canteen.

... the lumpins. The lumpins in revolutionary terms are criminals, the people known as "tsotsis". He said, "I have recruited the lumpins into units of the Azanian People's Liberation Army and I've gave them instructions that they should go to disarm in order that they arm their unit. ...

MR PATEL: Mr Chairman, basically this applicant seeks amnesty for the fact that he was asked for advice regarding the violence in the area. Part of his advice consisted of telling them to set up Self Defence Units firstly.

MR MAHLAKAONE: In the Eastern Transvaal I was sent to come and format operational units so that we must operate effectively and so that I must even command the units.

CHAIRPERSON: But the Self Defence Units were only established in 1993.

MR PRIOR: And are you able to assist the Committee in putting a time frame on that meeting when you started Beauty Salon, the repossession units, can you remember more or less when that happened?

... that she was arrested by the South African Security Police he was puzzled by the fact that no action was taken by the latter against any of the units or the MK premises in Swaziland that were known to Ms Simelane.  He had never seen Ms Simelane since her departure for South Africa and ...

MR OOSTHUIZEN: Gen Wandrag was Head of the Unrest Counter Insurgency Unit at Head Office in Pretoria. All the Unrest Units resided below him and he was also in control of Brigadier Daantjie van Wyk, under whose control I was.

... DE KOCK: Chairperson, approximately two to three months later, I asked Warrant Officer Pienaar if he knew anything about a corpse, whether the army units or the patrol units had found anything, whether there had been any queries from the Swazi Police about a corpse, or whether there was any ...

It is further common knowledge that the call for the establishment of Self Defence Units was made after the suspension of the armed struggle by the African National Congress. And further, there was no stage where the African National Congress called for the disbanding of the SDUs or the ...