Inkatha

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... one of the buses stopped there. My son alighted from the kombi which came after the bus, not knowing that this bus which was parked there was an Inkatha bus. On the veranda, before the veranda they met with the Inkatha people and they shot them both and killed them. // Rev Tim Smith was ...

... 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. // ...

... the area. At that stage, those months of September, October, November, December, practically the whole area became UDF, almost overnight. And the Inkatha were really in retreat. 1990 was when Nelson Mandela was released, the ANC was unbanned and that increased dramatically the tension between ...

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 ...

... were slaughtered in Richmond. This past week the Truth Commission heard the full story of one of KwaZulu-Natal’s killing machines, the 200 Inkatha men who were trained by the South African Defence Force in Caprivi in Northern Namibia in 1986, who called themselves the Inkatha armed wing. ...

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.

... or attacking capability. This request was agreed to by the then State Security Council and ‘Operation Marion’ was born. In 1986 200 young Inkatha men were secretly flown from Caprivi where they were trained by white Defence Force instructors. When they came back to KwaZulu-Natal many of ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

Skumbuzo Ngwenya’s family may never know who killed him. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission may do better than the courts, as long as the Inkatha Freedom Party stays out of the process, whether as victims or as perpetrators.

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.

... 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 ...

... concentrated too much on the sad stories of victims and was not getting to the real story of our sordid past must be changing their minds. The Inkatha Freedom Party was the only political party who did not make submissions to the Truth Commission two weeks ago. It seems as if they will now ...

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.

... fore over several years of the existence of a third force which was something that operated as a relationship between the security forces and the Inkatha Freedom ...

... At the Truth Commission hearings this week Mandla Nangalembe identified his brother’s kidnappers as members of a local gang affiliated to Inkatha and allegedly armed by the police. A vigil was held on the night before the funeral. The family had been warned that violence was likely and ...