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Special Report Transcript Episode 63, Section 3, Time 13:10

The evidence led during the hearings on the Caprivi group seems to support Mbeki’s theory. In 1986 200 IFP members were taken to the Caprivi strip in Namibia and trained by the South African Defence Force. The men were being trained to form the core of an armed wing for the IFP. When they came back to KwaZulu-Natal they became involved in hit squads and massacres. Some of them have now started telling the truth about their role in the violence in KwaZulu-Natal.

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The latter 1980s: Collusion with the South African security forces 233 By 1985, Inkatha supporters found themselves increasingly under attack by virtue of the positions they held within local government and homeland structures. Threats of assassination against Chief Buthelezi in 1985 prompted the ...
170 When David Ntombela of Mncane in Vulindlela became the induna of KwaMncane, the money he collected from people for a ‘co-operative store’ allegedly went into building his own store. Ntombela became known for spearheading attacks against UDF supporters who had begun to infiltrate the ...
119. The assertions by the Caprivi trainee amnesty applicants that they were acting as part of a well-resourced and orchestrated strategy coincided with the Commission ’s finding that in 1986 the SADF conspired with Inkatha to provide the latter with a covert, offensive paramilitary unit (hit ...
 
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