Inkatha

MR MOPEDI: Before you started to attack these people, have you verified first to make sure that they were indeed the members of Inkatha Freedom Party or Inkatha in short?

MR NGWENYA: I was a secretary at Lusaka-B. I used to allocate people to houses from Penduka, people who had fled as a result of the violence and I allocated them to houses that had been left behind by fleeing Inkatha members. I also organised food for them.

When I was still lying down this Inkatha van came around and they took me and kicked me. While I was still unconscious and bleeding and crying they threw me into the van. While I was still in the van they drove around up to a shop, where another gentleman came around by the name of Makobe who ...

MR GUMEDE: I didn’t see him at that time, but when I threw the gun there, I think most people who were there at that taxi rank, they were Inkatha people and they saw me, but then they couldn’t tell the police. They saw me as I was walking towards the police car, since we were in one organization, ...

MR ZWANE: All I knew was that they were Inkatha members but with regard to the Black Cats they were the leaders of the group.

... use that and say he is a police informer in order for the comrades to be the ones who are killing him and in Mpumalanga the area was predominately Inkatha and Vusi was active in getting the youth together and teaching them about ANC and the struggle. Even when I started to be a leader and a ...

... to hit Skosana(sic) with the handgrenade and Skosana influenced the other people against me and they told the other people that I was a member of Inkatha Freedom Party. ...

Since those people assaulted me, those people who called themselves Inkatha and the police. They assaulted me on the head. Even I can't hear clearly with my ears, because of what happened to me.

... to another area because he feared for his life. At the time when the deceased was killed, there was political tension between the members of the Inkatha Freedom Party. This was the period before the 1994 General Elections, and all the political groups were fighting for political positions and ...

... heard evidence so far over the last two days that indicates that by the 27th, and even before the 25th in fact, there were already clear signs that Inkatha was massing forces, that - for example we heard yesterday about the meeting between the chiefs at Ulundi, and the King, where people were ...

MR McBRIDE: I think at some stage the leadership, the local leadership, introduced me to him as one of the people who were assisting to a great deal in the defence of the communities, after attacks by Inkatha and other State surrogate forces.

... the toilet buckets at his business, Mr Phelane decided not to resign, what he did, he formed a gang which I cannot recall its name, whether it was Inkatha or Morgan Phelane Gang, it was referred to by many names, people who are against liberation. This gangster continued in Brandfort assaulting ...

"Grenade attack on Inkatha's Winnington Sabelo, AK47 fired at car of his wife as she entered the driveway, killing her and injuring three children."

... against and the intimidation of anarchists and revolutionaries by the vigilantes or hamanagalala including for example an organisation such as Inkatha should be strengthened, expanded and enforced as a natural counter-measure against anarchy. After order had been established it should be ...

CHAIRPERSON: In this area, that was the one community where conflict took place between supporters of Inkatha Freedom Party and supporters of the African National Congress. Can you just please try and explain to us how this happened or why it happened.

... a supporter of the African National Congress (ANC). At this time there was ongoing violence between the Mzimhlophe hostel dwellers who were mostly Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters and the residents who were mostly African National Congress (ANC) supporters. Self Defence Units were formed ...

MR SIBANYONI: Last question, what would you say if a person says there is sort a perception that it seems you might have joined Inkatha to use it as a hurdle to get back to the people who were, I will say, having problems with you in the township?

MR DANIELS: And you say that he killed your brother and your brother, you say, was a member of the IFP, the Inkatha Freedom Party?

MR VAN DER HEYDE: Mr Chairperson I am Chris van der Heyde, I work for the firm J.H. van der Merwe Inc. Mr Koos van der Merwe is also the director of our firm, I will ask him to put himself on record, he will attend the proceedings later on, we represent the Inkatha Freedom Party at this hearing.

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