self-protection units (SPUs)

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.

MS ANDERSON: We worked in quite tight, you could say cells, units, departments. You had for example Wally working in the cultural section, you had various people working in Intelligence, you had various people working in MK and it was quite tight, the way in which people worked was quite tight, ...

Because of that, there was a faction between the residents and the municipality. It is at that moment when the government of the apartheid regime decided to use the policemen called the Internal Stability Units, referred to as ISU's in the townships.

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?

... a wish of being put through to me and John. Then he further indicated that their sole purpose of being in the area was that we need to assemble Units, Units which would be in a position to act as the defence of the community, in terms of the threats that we currently were encountering in the ...

... this football club. To the best of my knowledge there was not a branch of Stratcom at the security branch. As concerns co-operation between other units of the SAP and other agencies there was co-operation between them but there was to my knowledge no specific actions directed at Mrs Winnie ...

And then there would be the line functions, those were the units. There was 1 Reconnaissance Regiment which was stationed in Durban, there was 2 Reconnaissance Regiment which was a civilian unit, there was 4 Reconnaissance Regiment which was stationed at Langebaan and then there was also 5 ...

... 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 ...

MR DUBE: If I may go back, yesterday I did explain that I had other duties that I was conducting or doing, I also had other units and my mind was preoccupied with training of these units. If it was not necessary for me to communicate with them, I would not communicate with them, I would continue ...

MR FRANCIS: But you had to assist all the other units of the police?

... was described, this wasn't about political activity, this was about trying to trace weapons. It was the sort of operation that the firearms units in other areas might get engaged ...

MR KOOPEDI: You sat with Betty for some time, together with Nomasonto and Tax, and I believe this will be a fair question to ask, did Nomasonto and Tax belong to other units, or did they only belong to Betty's unit?

MR LAX: And did you command any other units in addition to that?

MR CORNELIUS: Did you co-operate with the police units?

... be you and your unit, the people who will die there if you cannot do as I'm telling you". So I instructed Mabuti Biko as a commander of one of the units which I had at that time at Fort Beaufort, to go and do this ...

... I can recall he was the father and the founder of the so-called, if I may call it and describe it as such, that was known to as the "Handgrenade Units" that operated in Soweto or in the Witwatersrand area. He was attached to MK Ordinance. That is where arms were the issue, military warfare ...

... the Compol building was of such a nature that there were security guards who were on duty 24 hours a day and there were also other members of other units who were entering and exiting the building regularly during the day and night. As I have already stated, I saw potential in this person to ...

MR NOTUNUNU: Now, it is common cause Mr Nyembezi, that you were a member of what is known or was known as Self Defence Units, having been trained by MK cadres, is that the position?

MR BERGER: Mr Mthembu, you told the Committee last week that you were not targeting the residents generally of Boipatong but that you went to Boipatong to kill the members of the self-defence units, am I right?

... description for police crowd control. Now let me make it clear, I accept that the SAP at the time were looking to expand the riot or unrest control units and I also accept that no third force as a separate force, separate from the SAP and the SADF in the way in which it was discussed at the State ...