AmaAfrika

... grouped around unpopular councillors, which the regime hoped could become part of their covertly-run "Xhosa Resistance Movement" along with their "AmaAfrika National Front. " ...

A case study is provided by the AmaAfrika National Front or Project Henry, a group led by the self-styled "Reverend" Ebenezer Maqina, which adopted pseudo-radical "black consciousness" positions. This group was envisaged as forming the nucleus of "cultural front" organisations in the Eastern Cape, ...

... they would then come and attack and burn the house and so on. Amabutu were vigilant in searching for imminent attacks and possible arrival of Amaafrika or the SADF or the police, and Amabutu in that sense, yes were protecting the community and were seen to be volunteers in defence of the ...

Consequently the Youth League realised that Mrs Hanabe still posed a serious threat. At about the same time, the Youth League received information from one of its members that Mrs Hanabe had instructed a vigilante group, called AmaAfrika to kill certain members of the Youth League.

MR TEMBE: No, because we usually referred to each other as amaAfrika. I know one, Welcome. He was staying in a flat as well.