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AmaAfrika

Explanation
an anti-UDF vigilante group that grew out of the conflict between UDF and AZAPO supporters in Uitenhage during 1986. It was headed by the Reverend Ebenezer Maqina, who had been expelled from AZAPO in Port Elizabeth in January 1986.

... KwaNobuhle, and the killing and burning of at least seven suspected informers or ‘sell-outs’, including Councillor Benjamin Kinikini. UDF–AmaAfrika clashes: Uitenhage 1985–86 240 The beginning of 1986 saw the beginning of a violent conflict between the UDF and AmaAfrika in ...
His home was attacked and burnt by ANC supporters, despite at one stage being guarded by police. 324 In Uitenhage, the bloody conflict between the AmaAfrika and supporters of the UDF, which began in 1986/7 and flared up again in late 1989, continued into the 1990s. Mr Gladstone Kathazile Sibeku ...
... between UDF and AZAPO as well as the Azanian Youth Organisation (AZANYU). By early 1986 the anti-UDF grouping re-emerged as a group called the AmaAfrika. Evidence shows that, while there were genuine conflicts between the UDF and AZAPO, the security forces used these as the basis for the ...
... and supported through the projects were sometimes themselves involved in acts of violence. The clearest example of this is Reverend Maqina and the AmaAfrika movement. 570 The SAP adopted some measure of activity regarding contra-mobilisation. Key SAP unrest strategist General Wandrag sent out ...
... SUPPORT (INCLUDING VEHICLES AND MONEY IN CERTAIN INSTANCES) OR OTHER FORMS OF ENDORSEMENT OF VIGILANTES, PARTICULARLY REV MZWANDILE MAQINA OF AMAAFRIKA IN THE EASTERN CAPE, THE ‘WITDOEKE’ IN THE WESTERN CAPE AND THE A-TEAM IN NATAL. IN THE CASE OF INKATHA AND THE BLACK CATS, MILITARY ...
... their internal allies. Groups falling into this category include the IFP and conservative surrogate organisations and groupings like the witdoeke, AmaAfrika and the Eagles. c White right-wing organisations which, while actively opposing the state, actively and violently took action to preserve ...
... resistance and violence accompanying the emergence of a pro-incorporation vigilante grouping, Mbokodo. Reverend Mzwandile Maqina establishes AmaAfrika in Uitenhage following his expulsion from AZAPO in January. Violent conflicts with the UDF follow. Residents clash with police in ...
... the burning of opponents began in the Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage townships during the mid-1980s, both as part of the UDF conflicts with AZAPO and AmaAfrika and as a method used by UDF supporters to attack police, councillors and those seen as collaborating with the state. The Commission ...
... conflict started between AZAPO and the UDF in Port Elizabeth; later it developed into a violent conflict between the UDF and an organisation called AmaAfrika in KwaNobuhle. This conflict emerged at a time of education boycotts and developed into increasingly violent clashes between UDF-aligned ...
 
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