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Hostels in the provinces of KwaZulu/Natal and the Transvaal, particularly in the PWV (Pretoria/Witwatersrand/Vereeniging) area, became strongholds of the IFP in the early nineties. They became no-go areas for non-Inkatha residents of adjacent communities. In turn, IFP hostel-dwellers were increasingly alienated in these communities and were frequently attacked by resident youth activists. IFP-supporting hostel-dwellers were, however, responsible for launching several large-scale attacks on adjacent townships and informal settlements in these provinces. The overwhelming majority of victims in these attacks were non-IFP township residents.

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MR SKHOSANA: What came to my mind was this, this person was there, he was on his way to Buyafuthi to kill because during those times, people would be fetched from kwaZulu Natal to the hostels and those people would kill people.
ADV GCABASHE : What had the leadership decided to do about talking to the community in Zone 4 about these incidents? Just take us through that. Not your leadership, the people who were above you, unless you were in complete control of the hostels, you can explain that.
... here to come and listen to this gruesome ordeal that I experienced. In 1983, although I do not remember the date, I use to stay in Tembisa at the hostels. I moved with some of the Comrades from the hostel and we left for Alexandra during the mass funeral of 17 people who were killed. From ...
MR CEBEKHULU: We were buying them in the hostels.
MR MBELO: Mr Chairman, before I went to NY1 I dropped one of the Riot Squad members on, at the corner of NY1 and the street which came behind Dairy Belle Hostels and on the right-hand side, from the eastern side there were some of our policemen also there.
to explain this. The train would come from Germiston, so that the last station in Khatlehong is kwaZihne station, and this station is surrounded by hostels. When the train comes to a halt at kwaZihne station, obviously we would know that these are IFP members, the train was now being used by the ...
MR SITHOLE: I’m saying I know the activities took place around Soweto. One place that I can make mention of it is Umzimhlope, Dube and other nearby hostels.
... of the Casspir and using it for political purposes, in doing so they attacked IFP members occupying Katuza Hostel and another hostel, firing at the hostels and the people living therein. The attack took the form of a ruse to lull the occupants of those two buildings into a false sense of ...
ADV GCABASHE: Now I, we have been told of Kalanyoni as one of the residents of one of the hostels in the area. Has that got anything to do with Inyoni Park? Just help me with those two names.
I started suspecting that something was going on, but at the time, the harassment of the community was not common practice. I mean concerning the involvement of girls, because what was common was that the IFP members used to come to the township, kidnap girls and take them to the hostels.
CAPT KHOJA: He was not staying at the barracks, he was close to the barracks. Because this police barracks was surrounded by hostels. We bought some of the blocks within the hostel itself.
... previously unknown in the country (particularly Renamo style violence on trains, drive-by shootings and massed attacks on township residents from hostels which had been deliberately converted into informal military barracks). This terror campaign against black civilians was ascribed to ...
MR STEWART: Thereafter you did some work for Themba Xhosa including gun running and supplying of guns to hostels and so on. Is that right?
... I asked the police to come and guard us because I wanted to do a funeral for my children. I didn't get any assistance from them. People from the hostels, and neighbours who were Inkatha members, and neighbours who were ANC, came and assisted me, and they also came to the funeral. After that I ...
This went on and people were being used and the community police were also used. There were also hostels specifically the D-hostel which was fenced and whenever the men in the hostel had visitors who were females, these women would be raided at two o'clock in the morning and we used to watch all ...
... en kyk en toe gaan ek na die - na die bos se kant toe. Maar voor dit het ek gesien daar staan ‘n persoon wie onbekend aan my is in - een van die hostels vanaf Dairy Belle hostel, hy het daar gestaan daar heel bo en deur ‘n venster gekyk reg op ons. Tot vandag toe weet ek nie wie die persoon ...
MR THULO: They would ask questions about people who were not seen regularly near the hostels and they would use Zulu. Then if you are not able to respond in Zulu, therefore you would be attacked, especially when you can tell them that you come from Beirut or Cathrada or Sesulu or other sections, ...
Did you, on that morning, did you receive any specific information in respect as to what was happening at the hostels?
... While we were still barricading the streets, we were at Everest, just opposite the Gadebe Section. Most unfortunately, the members from the hostels and the members from the community collided. When the hostel dwellers saw a large number of people from the township coming, they ran away. ...
briefly say that there was a conflict in 1990. We were a united group of Inkatha and ANC members and when all this started there were fights in the hostels and people ran away to the Vusunzi Hostel and we remained in the Tafani Hostel. That was in ...
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