Inkatha

Kokoloi Matroos beat me continuously, when I went out I could see there was a police van next to my door they pushed me. And the police together with the people that I presumed they were Inkatha members and they pushed me into the van, I could see that the van was full.

MR MZUMBE: We were at the Checkers Tavern, drinking on that particular day - on that night, and people from Kwamadala came and people who were staying there were members of Inkatha Freedom Party.

CHAIRPERSON: Apart from the killing of your brother and your cousin were there other troubles between ANC and Inkatha in your area? You may not have been involved in them but were there other troubles between the ANC and Inkatha in your area?

"Had the chiefs in the area allowed organisations like the African National Congress, the situation could have been kept under control. Political intolerance displayed by chiefs and Inkatha Freedom Party sparked the unnecessary violence."

When we got to Mbekweni, the police - there were some police that were called INKATHA. There were soldiers - when you would enter the township it was very difficult because there were always roadblocks. That was the situations - when you would leave the rent office there would be tear gas every ...

... for the incidents which you have mentioned which are not very clear to me up to this stage, that your SDU's were basically there to fight the Inkatha Freedom Party, are you saying that to ...

2.    the manufacture and supply of pipe guns to the Inkatha Freedom Party during or about 1989;

MRS MAYISA: He took his nap and I told him, alerted him that the Inkatha was coming and he woke up. We looked through the window and we could see that group approaching our house and they got to our house. They had bottles, nip bottles and they started attacking us, throwing those bottles and ...

(f): In the absence of an acceptable political structures for black people then makes the task of the enemy easier should structures such as Inkatha perhaps not be established for black people as a political way of expressing themselves and to act against radical action. The revolution is about ...

distributed by the Attorney-General from whose possession they came, and they were made available to all the parties. It's on the letterhead of the Inkatha Freedom Party, it is signed by Mr Humphrey Ndlovu, whom I may say one or - I think he had separate counsel for himself but they worked in ...

EXAMINATION BY MR STUART: Thank you Mr Chairperson. Mr Khumalo you were trained in the Caprivi, along with 200 or so other Inkatha supporters, is that right?

MR MOTATA: Mr Lekabe, is it not the understanding that when the SDU's were formed you were protecting largely the community of Katlehong against Inkatha. Is my understanding correct this far?

MR CHISOMA: They said we must kill any member of Inkatha.

... ludicrous to suggest that such actions were the prime cause - or even a major cause - of such violence. Support for various organisations, such as Inkatha etc, that were being threatened by the strategies and actions of those responsible for the armed insurrection, should not be confused with ...

MR NKONYANE: Yes, I knew that they were Black Cat members and they were also members of Inkatha.

... place, the employers will not listen to the reasons that the workers gave. And thereafter one incident that took place, and that really caused the Inkatha as well as the then KwaZulu Government to think that the UDF was a threat to them, they wanted to take all the supporters, was the formation ...

MS DUBE: In Swanieville the Inkatha came. In Swanieville the Inkatha invaded this place in Swanieville. I cannot remember the exact date, but this was in 1992. Inkatha invaded us and we ran to Asatville.

... made public in the trial and the State Security Council meeting of the 3rd of February of 1986, refer to the fact that the paramilitary support for Inkatha, which was referred to in those documents, which was an internal operation, had to be authorised at the highest level, the similar term used. ...

So this was more political violence between IFP people and non-IFP people - what, would have been UDF at that time? --- At that time at KwaNdengezi Inkatha was dominating, and another organisation which was called UDF.

... involvement in politics, because in KwaZulu Natal, at the time when I grew up when I attended school, it was the time when we were still taught Inkatha as a subject at school. So now, when I became aware of what was politically happening around me, and what was happening in the country at ...