impi

... day, or later in the week. But, whatever they believed, nothing on earth can justify what they did that night. These people called themselves an impi, a group of armed men, warriors. They weren't men, they weren't warriors, they were cowards and they were murderers, because that is really all ...

... burning. I approached the police and they informed that there had been a shooting and somebody had been killed. At just about that time the main impi of several thousand people came over the hill from Mapumuza towards Xaluza. They started shooting from a long distance away, but hit nobody at ...

asked the sequence of events and what the status was at the moment. From what they said and what I saw the following had occurred. A large band of impi from the Inkatha stronghold area of Sweetwaters and Umphumuza and beyond had converged on Xaluza at approximately 7 o'clock in the morning and ...

After that the men left the hostel area, there were about 150. At the time we popularly referred to them as an impi. They were armed with all sorts of sharp instruments from bars to wooden sticks and also carrying shields. They wore red bands on their heads. They travelled through Mzimhlope, ...

... am the following morning when I was proceeding home from my neighbour's place I saw a large group of people approaching, and I realised that the impi was accosting us and it was going to launch an attack. I ran into the house and alerted my children that a group of Inkatha members was ...

... for instance the MPs at that time, members of the Democratic Party. I remember that two of those MPs came and we went along to where the impi was approaching, or the group was approaching. But we could not get near the group, because just as we were approaching we were welcomed with ...

Please continue. --- We were quite a large group and we were next to the induna's house. We were together with the impi. There were a lot of cars, lorries as well as private cars. We were loaded into the lorries as well as cars, ZG lorries which were coming from Eshowe. We proceeded there ...

"While it appears that there was a political or party political motive for the attack on the kraal of Robert Khuzwayo, nevertheless, the impi of which the Accused is a member, committed unprovoked attacks on residents of the neighbouring kraals as a result of which several people were killed."

... Unit Commanders and people on the ground, had a general discretion to carry out operations as they happened. Can you imagine this, say an IFP impi attacks a section of the township, do you think they are going to have a meeting and strategise about what to do in order to defend themselves? ...

... is so that they would want to implicate Mr Vanana Zulu because he was seen as the person who sat behind all of this and who sent out his people or impi's or amaButhu to attack them. What I don't find with respect, is a plausible explanation and therefore my submission is improbable, why his ...

MS MTANGA: Mr Langa will come here and testify that the reason they were attacked on that day it's because of the impi that was taking place back at home in Nqutu. What do you say to this, Mr Cebekhulu?

--- I do not have any first-hand information as to why there were false alarms, but what I can tell you is that on the 28th and the 29th, when the impi was coming back, there was this state of panic, I think because they were attacking further down the villages, and they thought that probably ...

MR MNDEBELE: If you could just explain to me what is the difference between IFP and IFP impi.