Inkatha

SUPPLY OF WEAPONS TO THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY

... to start with the Seven Days War, I am going to start with the events that took place just prior to the attack. The violence started in 1986 when Inkatha was forcing the residents to join it. They were attacking people, burning down houses, looting possession, and they used to rape the women. ...

... proceed then, thank you. --- Okay. On the 25th of March 1990 - I love music. Let me first start by telling you about myself, and after the Inkatha buses had passed by heading for the Inkatha rally I was with my brother, Denis Zondi, Tim Zondi. We went to Elandskop(?), and Philip Thabani ...

... branch, but was persuaded by the Divisional Commissioner to accept the post of Station Commander at New Hanover in January 1988. During 1988 Inkatha Youth were attacked by UDF supporters and this incident started the violence in the area. The Inkatha supporters attacked the UDF and vice ...

MAJ WILLIAMSON: To my knowledge Inkatha or - I don't know how to phrase it whether units of Inkatha, but certainly elements related to the Inkatha Freedom Party were given weapons - what I was referring to earlier where it was felt that if the ANC was giving their supporters weapons the South ...

CHAIRPERSON: In other words, there was no third force, because in all these conflicts between UDF, Inkatha and Inkatha and ANC and Inkatha, there is always a third force. In your situation, you do not see any third force?

The applicant was, during 1992-1993, a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party at Katlehong. He participated in activities amounting to the unlawful possession of a firearm and for which he was convicted and sentenced. He acted as a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party Self-Defence Unit and completely ...

MR SIBANYONI: Was it possible for a person who is not an Inkatha member, to pretend as if he is an Inkatha member, for the sake of remaining in the area?

MR MOTAUNG: They told me he is a warlord. Most of the time people were forced to join Inkatha and those who were not Inkatha members will be beaten. Since I was not staying over the hill or above, so I heard it from other people telling me about it.

... the East Rand, for example, we know that the conflict often involved members of the UDF and later the ANC and people who were seen to be members of Inkatha and later the IFP, Inkatha Freedom Party. We have tried to get statements which show the other side of the conflict as seen from those ...

... to the farm for guns and with no intention to kill the deceased, whom they said they regarded as an ex-soldier who had in the past supplied arms to Inkatha. Mandla Shabalala's mother had been killed 2 - 3 years prior to the incident. They took the decision to go to the farm and look for guns ...

Both applicants were members of the Inkatha Freedom Party and testified that they regarded the members of the ANC as their enemies, that they should eliminate them so that they could be freed. They should also drive ANC members from the area so that Inkatha members could be the sole occupants of ...

... organised political parties. We had this destabilisation taking place through the State Security Forces, the elements of the security forces and Inkatha and the Inkatha supporting vigilante ...

... Committee must take into account the Boipatong massacre after which the applicants committed this crime. There was also a circular distributed by Inkatha Freedom Party members as alleged which appear on page 173 of the amnesty application record upon which the members of IFP were indirectly ...

... the Truth Commission and the De Kock trial. In January 1990 police Sgt Barney Horne told Vrye Weekblad in detail of police torture, SAP support for Inkatha vigilantes who murdered UDF supporters and of the murder of activist David Mazwai whose body was dumped down an ERP mine shaft. Silence from ...

context of the emergence of a variety of civic, youth and women's organisations which formed the United Democratic Front in Natal's urban townships. Inkatha saw this coalition of organisations as a direct threat to its hegemony in the region, particularly as a potential ally of the banned African ...

CHAIRPERSON: I am a bit confused, because Inkatha, ANC violence, violence between Inkatha, ANC and UDF started long after the period of 1976. Are you sure you are not confusing your facts?

... some of them had been a PAC member and if my memory does not fail me, it was Kohna Rabela. This was the person whom everybody referred to as the Inkatha member. His father was an Inkatha member, an IFP member, but Kohna Rabela himself was ...

MISS FALATI: The other atrocities - you must know that the train massacres were not started by Inkatha Freedom Party but was started by Mandela Football Club - listen, you are not listening, I said the train massacres were not started by Inkatha Freedom Party but they were started by Mrs Mandela ...

... victim and the victim's uncle Mr Edward Mabizela was also called to testify.  The applicant, 33 years old testified that he was a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).  At the time of the incident he was an assistant secretary to the Youth Branch of the party at Jeppe Hostel in ...