Inkatha

MR DLAMINI: Because of the situation in the area, where we did not have firearms and Inkatha was attacking us day and night, I was compelled to actually remove a pistol, a 9 mm pistol from one coloured person, so that we could have one firearm in the area.

... contacted this morning by Advocate Swanepoel from the Pretoria Bar, who indicated that he is under the instruction of Mr Koos van der Merwe of the Inkatha Freedom Party, to appear on behalf of a Mr Msizi and also that he has instructions to appear on behalf of certain victims. He also indicated ...

MR STRYDOM: During 1992 were you a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party or not?

SUPPLY OF WEAPONS TO THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY

"A full member of Inkatha Freedom Party."

MR RAUTENBACH: What about Inkatha, were they seen as a potential enemy at that stage?

MR MALAN: But they would not necessarily have linked it to the police, they might have linked it to Inkatha?

... conflict started I decided to join the IFP because I realised that there were some political elements in the conflict and now I've decided to join Inkatha Freedom Party because it looks as if politics was taking precedence. And when I was elected I was not elected as a member of a political ...

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.

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... because Myaka's parent came from home, he's the one who made an effort. You see, in our case where we went to commit this robbery, it's because INKATHA was in need of the money, they needed the money to purchase firearms, but unfortunately we did not succeed in our ...

MR MIYA: Because he was a member of Inkatha and he was a hostel dweller but at the same time he had a shack within our own residential area. On that particular day he had come to pick up his belongings.

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.

MR NKONDO: Yes there were coaches that were described as Inkatha coaches and the others were described as ANC coaches. Now that one is naive who will just get into any coach.

We realised that we should also invite the thugs as well to come and join us in this fight and we could realise that Inkatha will not have much power to attack us if we were that much in number but sometimes it would happen, until a certain period when we took the matter to the community to decide ...

MR MOLAHLEHI: What happened that day, the Inkatha marchers were singing from the hostel. Because we were afraid that when they come back they will come and attack us we went into Unit F so that we could see the direction that they were taking.

MR SIPHO: And in the trial, at page 266 of the record, the Judge said that according to your evidence, you could neither agree nor disagree that the compound is predominantly occupied by Inkatha supporters.

We've heard evidence that the AWB was positive towards Inkatha, Mangope and Bophuthatswana and probably other institutions of groups as well. Weren't their supporters exclusively or even more exclusively black than the ANC/SACP support basis?

MR DEHAL: Then in paragraph 5 you say that in 1992 there was a lot of violence in the Engonyameni area, in that members of the Inkatha Freedom Party were becoming violent and killing members of the ANC. During this violence many of your family members were shot dead, namely your grandfather, ...