Special Report Transcript Episode 63, Section 3, Time 11:37

I’m quite certain that the overwhelming majority of members of the IFP has never been involved in this violence, didn’t like it; didn’t want it, in much the same way that the overwhelming majority of members of the ANC would not want this violence. There wasn’t a situation in which two members of the ANC in KwaMashu, one member of the ANC one member of Inkatha; one stands up and says I, member of the IFP, I’m in favour of a federal South Africa. And this ANC one says no, no we don’t like this federation business, I’m in favour of a unitary South Africa. They disagree and then they draw guns on each other and shoot. No such thing. Organised gangs, political, were responsible for this violence. Those assassins who participated in the massacre in Shobashobane in Christmas ‘95 I think it was, had been killing since the eighties and they were not interested in any peace agreement between the IFP and the ANC, not in the least.

Notes: Thabo Mbeki (ANC submission, May 1997)