Inkatha

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?

... 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 ...

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 ...

During September 1990 Van der Gryp (third Applicant) arrested Themba Khoza, a leader within the Inkatha Feedom party ("IFP") for the unlawful possession of arms and ammunition.  He filed a statement in this regard.  Conradie (first Applicant) then a major attached to the Security Branch in ...

... identify anybody at the shooting. It is also significant that he didn't mention in his application that children were killed. He stated that 6 Inkatha members were killed. When it was put to him that this information was not correct he conceded it and replied: ...

... to them, they were hotel dwellers living in the Meadowlands hostel which was during the time a hostel predominantly occupied by supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party. it was during the run-up to the first democratic election and it is common cause that political conflict between IFP members ...

... at that time that Ciskei had already pulled out of Cossap, that is concerned group of South Africa, something like that, that is where there was Inkatha, where there was Bophuthatswana, where there was - you were aware that they have pulled out of that group already and they had, the Ciskei ...

a request from the SDU at Inanda in KwaZulu Natal to send members from Phola Park to Inanda to protect the ANC and the community from attacks by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) ...

MS PRETORIUS: So there was war between the ANC and Inkatha in the Vaal Triangle at that time?

MR XABA: Inkatha Freedom Party.

... and who at this time, I believe, had already left South Africa. And then there was a request for an assignment inside South Africa to look at Inkatha, to visit resettlement areas and obviously I would then approve that, give the budget for it and perhaps give them some further instructions ...

MR HATTINGH: No, Mr Chairman, despite my client's answer, that is not entirely correct. Weapons were provided to Inkatha after the time.

The applicant is a member and supporter of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP). On New Years day 1991 his home in Nkulu, which is close to Dlovinga, was attacked and burnt to the ground by supporters of the African National Congress, (the ANC). His grandmother was killed in the attack.

During that time Mpumalanga was engulfed in political unrest and there was continual violence between supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP) and supporters of the African National Congress (the ANC).

Around 1993 there was a gang of criminals operating in Tembisa known as the Toaster Gang. This gang was linked to Inkatha Freedom Party, or the IFP and acted in cahoots with the same IFP in terrorising the community. Among others, this gang used to murder innocent people, rape women and rob ...

... Monday all the political parties are being recalled. The present party that's in government, the ANC, also the National Party, also the PAC, maybe Inkatha and many questions are going to be put to these political parties and particularly to the former government, the National Party on it's role ...

... be regarded as being improbable. I respectfully submit that the TRC hearings are full of that history of the kwaZulu police collaborating with Inkatha and I respectfully submit that what the applicants have said, should be taken as the ...

"While the fighting continued I heard a big noise gun sound and we fled. During that incident one person from the rival Inkatha died."

MR STRYDOM: Are you a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party?

MR MADASA: No, Mr Chair. She admitted that there was gun-running, that they were fighting the IFP, Inkatha, she admitted that ...(intervention).