Black Cats

Explanation
a gang of IFP-aligned vigilantes that conducted attacks on ANC members, principally in Wesselton and Ermelo, Eastern Transvaal, from 1990 to 1992. The gang, which received military training from Inkatha at the Mkuze camp in KwaZulu Natal in the early1990s, was supported by certain community councillors, Caprivi trainees and members of the SAP.

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Amnesty Hearing, Pinetown, Day 1 (08 March 1999)

... co-accused got caught and then Hlongwane was hid for a while in the Ulundi environs. It was at that stage that, I think at one of the camps, the Black Cats from Ermelo, basically the IFP youth from Ermelo, came and he met them there, and then he was given basically a deployment order by the ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Hammarsdale, Day 2 (12 August 1998)

MR WILLS: And then we're not going to go into this evidence because it's going to be the subject of the Ermelo sitting of this Commission and it doesn't effect this community and that is later on you were introduced to the Black Cats and then you went to operate in the Ermelo area. Is that correct?

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Middelburg, Day 1 (04 June 1997)

In Ermelo we saw that there was a gang which was called the Black Cats and later got involved in the political conflict taking place there between UDF or ANC and the Inkata Freedom Party.

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Balfour, Day 1 (23 May 1997)

... itself. Yesterday, when we were in Ermelo, we could see that in the township of Wesselton how a community divided, Comrades on the one side and Black Cats on the other side. (tape ...

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