Inkatha

or cultural? Or is it mainly criminal violence? These are the questions South Africans have been asking for years now about the conflict between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal. More than 10 000 people have died in this war since the early 1980s. During ...

... IFP. They said the police was openly involved in IFP gun running and third force activities. // There were weekly meetings and discussions between Inkatha leaders and high ranking officers of the unrest squad. And that is when I realized that the police and the Inkatha were working together. // ...

Happy valley sprung up as UDF victims fled form Inkatha strongholds. With NGO support the refugees are making a new start. // What shocked me was that the ZP policeman Mshembu would during the day get together with Inkatha members and would chase us around. Sometimes they would run around burning ...

... KwaZulu and the IFP in particular have been the target of ANC destabilization policies since the failed 1979 conference to persuade the then Inkatha cultural liberation movement to become a surrogate of the ANC. The different strategies to overcome apartheid proved irreconcilable and at ...

... here, because this is just an ordinary memorial service. // We were here, the people noticed that Sabelo was here, the member of the government of Inkatha. He was here, instructing these people to come and bombard us. // The leader of Inkatha came inside the hall with three guns, one this side, ...

We continued to work under captain and he always told us that whenever there was a fight that broke out we should always side with the Inkatha members, even when we got guns that were possessed by Inkatha members we should not take them. But if they were possessed by UDF members we should take ...

... to /draw/ throw? its open net. That is the perception we have … // So it was one sided in terms of the old order and one sided as regards to the Inkatha Freedom Party? // Exactly. Probably even to not to the Inkatha Freedom Party, to the people at large in South Africa, because even if you ...

It is perpetrated, we believe by forces that are against the talks about peace. The violence is particularly connected with Inkatha and people are saying that openly. // We need to see township violence as part of a broader strategy by the apartheid government, and I think that evidence has come to ...

It is perpetrated, we believe, by forces that are against the talks about peace. The violence is particularly connected with Inkatha and people are saying that openly.

... indiscriminate landmine explosions and of the murderous activities of a powerful and secretive gang tell their stories. We’ll tell you about the Inkatha Freedom Party’s accusations and apologies made on Thursday and we’ll explain why the Truth Commission refused amnesty to four people in ...

... claims. By last night more than 7000 amnesty applications had been received. Amongst these are 20 applications from the old SADF and 200 from the Inkatha Freedom Party. Some of the prominent ANC members who applied for amnesty at the last moment were Minister of Defence Joe Modise and his ...

... with a political motive. The police, he said, made him into a murderer and arsonist and then used him in the battle to win every inch of Natal for ...

In 1988 the community of Trust Feed was divided by a power struggle. Upper Trust Feed became known as UDF territory and lower Trust Feed belonged to Inkatha.

Inkatha and the Toasters came from the other side; they were carrying guns to attack people here in the township. They started shooting people out there in the streets until they entered my home here.

Gcina Mkhize was one of the young, angry Inkatha supporters who volunteered for training. He told the Commission the trainees were welcomed by white South African soldiers when they arrived at the secret Caprivi base after a clandestine flight.

On the second of December 1988, 11 Inkatha supporters attending a night vigil were shot dead in Trust Feed, Natal. The victims were mostly women and children. Local police made no progress in finding the killers. Then Frank Dutton of the Investigations task unit got involved. Dutton nailed seven ...

The Black Cats were later taken for military training in Ulundi, where they joined the Inkatha Freedom Party.

It was just I think the driving force behind the motives of the security establishment, was to drive the opponents, the UDF – the stronger side – out of Trust Feed, so that it is left within the hands of say in this case Inkatha. That it becomes a no go area and they can within themselves exist.

The battle between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party has torn communities apart. Richmond in KwaZulu-Natal is one of many regions that bear terrible scars of the continuing conflict. This week, IFP perpetrators and ANC families met face to face at an amnesty hearing in Pietermaritzburg. The ...

... province where reconciliation is perhaps more urgent than anywhere else the Truth Commission’s work was dogged by the continuing friction between Inkatha and the ANC. Jann Turner was ...