Inkatha

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

involving the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"). The main characteristic of this violence was a conflict between ANC aligned township residents and IFP aligned hostel dwellers. The conflict was accompanied by heavy loss of life and large-scale destruction of property. During the course ...

CHAIRPERSON: Do you recall when you started supporting Inkatha?

MR MASEKO: These were the members of Inkatha, who were called the Self Protection Unit.

4.    The supply of weapons to the IFP.  There should be a separate public hearing dealing with incidents related to the supply of weapons to Inkatha.  This panel accordingly did not deal with this incident.

From his early days as a student at the local school, the aggravated political climate between the ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") supporters dominated the lives of the residents and in particular young persons like himself. They witnessed the killing of residents by what came to be known as ...

Political violence persisted in Boipatong after the infamous Boipatong Massacre and tensions between African National Congress (ANC) supporters and Inkatha Freedom party (IFP) supporters were extremely high. Both Applicants were ANC supporters.

It also transpired during the meeting that Inkatha warlords were attacking people in the trains and in the township and hence the need to obtain arms to be able to defend the community.

(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.

... were, moreover, suggestions that some members of the group were members of the Pan Africanist Congress ("PAC") and mention was even made of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") in this regard.  It was not seriously contested that the ANC by all accounts never had an official policy of ...

... Reserve was experiencing a violent political conflict involving members and supporters of the African National Congress ("ANC") and the Inkatha Freedom party ("IFP"). Second Applicant is an ANC member who had received military training both inside and outside of the country, ...

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 ...

... on 27 April 1994, Brigadier Gqozo was resisting the holding of elections in Ciskei. He had joined forces with other groupings, including the Inkatha Freedom Party, opposed to the coming elections, which situation intensified the conflict between Brigadier Gqozo and those political ...

The Applicant knew that these arms and explosives were likely to be provided to the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) to continue unlawful activities.  In addition he provided drugs to Riley for the purposes, as he thought, to pay off drug dealers in return for information.

MR MSIMANGO: This is how it happened. It was on a Tuesday, Inkatha Freedom Party arrived and harassed us at our residential area. They shot indiscriminately and left immediately. I was early hours of the morning. We came back and got ourselves prepared to revenge. We went as far as the hostel ...

All three allege that they were members of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") during December 1993. They explained that because of the political conflict between the IFP and the African National Congress ("ANC"), the members of the IFP needed to arm themselves with firearms in order to defend ...

the township of Katlehong as part of their duties. The township was engulfed at the time by a violent conflict between members or supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") and the ANC. Members of the SDU were charged with the responsibility of defending the township residents against ...

... They were involved in political activities, including the protection of their area, Zamani Reserve, against attacks from their political foe, the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"). While they were present at a camp organised for the purpose of defending their area, Ernest Sipho Mahlanze (referred ...