Inkatha

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

The background to the matter briefly is that the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") intended to hold a mass rally at the Jabulani Stadium in Soweto which created the potential for extensive violent conflict with members and supporters of the liberation movements who were opposed to the idea of the IFP ...

... to be members or supporters of the African National Congress ("ANC") which was engaged in a violent political conflict in the area with the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"). Both Applicants were members of the IFP and their residential area was an IFP stronghold. Applicants and other ...

... known as the Self Defence Unit (SDU) in Tokoza during 1990. He says that the general purpose was to defend the community against the opposing Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). It is common cause that there was a conflict between the IFP and the African National Congress. He now applies in ...

The point I am trying to make is that we are investigating this massacre once again. The opportunity is there for people on this particular massacre, people from the police force as well as members of the Inkatha Freedom Party, to come forward and apply for amnesty.

that there was trouble in Thokoza ever since approximately 1990, in the sense of a conflict or a fight involving people who apparently supported the Inkatha Freedom Party and who were mainly resident in the hostels in and around Thokoza and members of the community in Thokoza, predominantly ...

MR McBRIDE: The Khumalo gang is an Inkatha aligned gang that reigned terror upon the community of Thokoza and possibly were involved in the killing of Sam Ntuli.

MR MAGQABI: And that sir, you were told that the deceased was a Zulu and that he formed part of the Zulu's who were Inkatha Freedom Party members and who were bussed in from Zululand to help the Police in their war against the freedom fighters?

... going on for a very long time, and even the place that I was staying at, that was not my place of origin, because I was born in the place where the Inkatha people had occupied. The people there were fighting day and night from 1990 up to ...

and he was asking them to come and help. He was calling the ANC to come and help them thinking that these were police. He was not aware these were Inkatha members. He saw police coming with two Hippos. The ANC office responded that they would call police to come and protect them at the night ...

... dismissed continued working at the factory. According to newspaper reports which form part of the papers before us, there are indications that the Inkatha Freedom Party aligned United Workers Union of South Africa also maintained a presence at the Haggie Rand factory. This situation set the ...

MR HATTINGH: General, Mr de Kock has testified upon other occasions that home-made shotguns were manufactured by his means at Vlakplaas, and that those shotguns were manufactured on police expenses and that they were provided to Inkatha. Do you know anything about that?

The Applicants were members of the United Democratic Front (UDF) through the Clermont Youth Congress (CYC).  They were in political conflict with members and the organisation of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).

MR LAMEY: It is contained within the bundle. I will just give you an example. For example, the Inkatha involvement, the weapon supply, the Nelspruit incident, the Greytown incident, the Bheki Melangene incident and so forth.

MR LAX: Mr Wills, it's also quite clear from page 132 that the judge had no doubt the matter was an attack by ANC on Inkatha supporters?

MR BLACK: You state here further that your younger brother, James Mbokane was an active member of the ANC in the Secunda/Ermelo area and during 1985 and at Secunda he was killed by members of the Inkatha together with the Black Cats gang members?

(i) Military training for offensive action within kwaZulu-Natal given by applicant to a group of Inkatha Freedom Party members during or about the middle of 1986 at or near Hippo Base, Caprivi, Namibia.

MR RADEBE: Yes, I would like to add that this conflict started in 1990. Inkatha was attacking us and we decided to come up with our own illegal means of defending ourselves. This followed the circumstances and we therefore had to have our own soldiers to protect and defend the community. That is ...