Inkatha

ADV MOTATA: Miss. According to the evidence it was an attack by Inkatha and there were several attacks, and I hope you listened to me when I asked the applicant that I didn't want generalities, but he mentioned this specific attack during 1990 where he saw your uncle armed, in the company of the ...

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

... tell them the truth as it was, I would have problems. The police would tell the IFP members, because they were cooperating, collaborating with the Inkatha people, and we would be taken to court and I would be attacked also even in court. That is why I told Xolani not to mention anything about ...

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.

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.

During this time there was conflict between the ANC supporters on the one hand and the security forces and the Inkatha Freedom Party on the other. The occupants of Ethafeni Hostel were under constant attack by the members of the IFP. It is against this background that the members organised ...

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?

... which was harassing the community. After some time they went to stay in Vusimuzi Hostel with Mr Mduze. There at the hostel they collaborated with Inkatha. On 31 July 1993 whilst I was sitting at home in the dining room I heard men talking outside saying wake up men. Because there were patrols ...

... 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.

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 PRIOR: IFP, Inkatha Freedom Party.

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

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

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

... 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.