Inkatha

EXAMINATION BY MR VAN DER HEYDE: Mr Myaka, are you a follower of the Inkatha Freedom Party?

MR DEHAL: Is it not your version that the entire incident leading up to the death of the deceased started off would then meaning the applicant and his group calling the deceased an Inkatha person?

MR MNDEBELE: The IFP stands for Inkatha and the Black Cats.

... if one analyses the evidence correctly, is that due to the circumstances prevailing then, the political situation, the tensions between the ANC and Inkatha which are common cause to this Committee, the applicant had no choice but to follow the command of his commander as it were and to indeed ...

... of the township and he is charge of the youth movement of the ANC in the township, that the HLH compound is inhabited by members and supporters of Inkatha Freedom Party, and the deceased lived in the township. On the 28th of September 1991, was seen in the compound. He then sets out the two ...

MR BERGER: So you will agree with me that the statement that David Mbele had tenuous if any structural connection with Inkatha, is wrong?

MR SIMELANE: Let me put this clear to you so that we stop clutching at straws, we know that at that time Inkatha and the ANC, we're not seeing eye to eye, they are arch rivals. There was absolutely no need on my part to be bothered about any people who was at the gate, there was absolutely no ...

EXAMINATION BY MR SWANEPOEL: Mrs Mzizi, is it correct that you are an active member of the Inkatha Freedom Party?

correspondence to various parties, amongst them Iscor, the South African Police, Mr Armin Kluth on behalf of the South African Defence Force and the Inkatha Freedom Party. We received certain replies which may become relevant at a later stage in these proceedings and we didn't want to hold back ...

I am going to ask you a few questions, it may be that - that you did answer them, but I didn’t understand the translation very well. You were speaking about the night when you were shot and you said there were people with the police who you called Inkatha is that right?

They were killed by Inkatha members. Vusi told me that he has an AK47 with him. At that time, I was receiving money from SACR, that was about R800-00 or at times they would give me R1 200-00.

MR MNGUNI: I joined the IFP in 1978, at Nxotu. My father was a member of Inkatha, before Inkatha became of political party. I then joined Inkatha, not knowing anything about other people. I just knew about Umdwana, Chief Buthelezi, and the King. Those are the people whom I knew as my leaders.

We used to hold meetings at a creche as the youth of Inkatha. At Dela there were conflicts between the ANC and the IFP, and a decision was taken that some of us were not supposed to use certain streets, and some of us were not supposed to use other streets.

... to paragraph 4. Do you see that there you say that during 1991 there were many marches held in the area, that these marches were dominated by the Inkatha Freedom Party, that a meeting was called with the Chief in the Bhekuzulu(?) area and that at the meeting the Chief's assistant, a person ...

almost on a daily basis. Fighting was going on. It started off as something that seemed like a taxi violence, but later on it seemed as if it was an Inkatha/ANC fight. And it later on took another dimension that presented itself as a fight between AmaXhosa and ...

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?

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.

MRS BEKWA: Mpomelelo Faku was the one who gave me a programme. I can give you the programme, because that is where everything is reflected. On the whole it is the Inkatha which killed him because Inkatha wanted to hold a meeting there at school, but the children refused, so the quarrel started.

During his address, he mentioned that we as the kwaZulu Police should be aware on which side our bread is buttered. He continued and told us that as members of the kwaZulu police, we are the Inkatha police.

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.