self-protection units (SPUs)

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, ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

forces cannot be allowed to break the law in order to defend legality. The solution to this problem in many states has been to allow security force units to carry out extra-legal counter-revolutionary acts as long as they are done ...

... 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

MR FRANCIS: And that's now to be of assistance to the various units, including Murder and Robbery?

... 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 ...

MR OOSTHUIZEN: No, simply because I also knew that there was an overlap of work between the Murder and Robbery Units and the Security Branch at that stage in the country.

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 ZEELIE: Before I joined the Security Branch, I was involved with the foundation of the Unrest Units in Diepkloof, Soweto, and it was the beginning of 1970 until July 1976, and July 1976 I joined the Security Branch.

MR MNISI: I wouldn't know about other units, but in our unit it was Vusi and Dumakude.

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?

All of us who left Pretoria went through Grootfontein and there we were divided amongst the various units, amongst the various hospitals. Some of the people who went with us were sent straight to Unita, to be medics for Unita, particularly one chap who used to sleep in the bed next to me in ...

ADV DLAVANE: So I believe that between yourselves, by "yourselves" I mean the defence units and this vigilante group, what was happening at the time it was like a straight battle between the two groups, is that correct?

... 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 ...

Colonel Vorster in this meeting stated that he issued the self-defence units with firearms. They were called SDUs. He stated he also issued firearms to the indunas. He stated that when he issued the firearms he issued letters of authorisation from his office. Colonel Vorster said that the IFP SDUs ...