Inkatha

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.

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.

"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."

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

"I also hit some other people of Inkatha, with a home-made panga. They were hurt. One's surname was Ngema."

MR MALAN: The Volkstaat is an old ideal that comes from the time the AWB was founded, several times before that. Let's try and put it differently, if things - you know who Inkatha is?

... were barricaded and they were unable to come back that way and had to take Khumalo Street. When they were in the middle of that street a group of Inkatha men accosted them, stopped them and took out guns and they said they should drive into the hostel. The van which they were driving was forced ...

... back to the people who forced us to leave our area, or our places. We wanted to stay there as ANC members, freely, and also we wanted to kick out Inkatha members because they were the reason why we were out of our places. We were born there and it was sad and difficult for us to leave our ...

In the meantime I understand that two of the mentioned victims have appointed counsel to attend to their interests in the matter and I understand also that the Inkatha Freedom Party has engaged him to look after their interest as well.

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 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.

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, ...

MR FALCONER: That was perceived to be an Inkatha affiliated area.

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.

... of the incitement, whichever expression one wishes to use, of someone else, someone older than him, someone more prominent than him in the local Inkatha hierarchy and that he felt at least some degree, in the second place, of pressure applied to him, whether expressed or not, to carry out ...

with his own gun. It was then that your son took refuge at Kwamadale hostel and it is alleged that he then became either a member or a supporter of Inkatha. Do you know if your son ever became a member or a ...

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.

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

you ordered him then to leave. He was released. As he was walking away, Lucky said something to the effect that "What happens if he comes with the Inkatha people for some revenge attack?" and suggested that it would be better that he be killed. That you then went, apprehended the person and ...