Inkatha

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.

... 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 ...

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 ...

not ask a person whether he was belonging to your organisation or not. We would go as Comrades and we would not ask whether a person is a UDF, PAC, Inkatha or National Party, but we would be together, because these people would attend meetings and our ...

MR MALOWA: Can I assume that even when you say they were suppressing you, retarding the freedom which you are enjoying even now, you are also referring to members of Inkatha Freedom Party?

... 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: ...

MR SITHOLE: I was an IFP member, Inkatha that is.

MR SIBISI: What I knew is that Lombo, he was a warlord on the Inkatha side and most of the attacks where families were killed and properties burnt, Lombo was also in front of such attack.

... the majority of which have been dealt with at hearings.  The present application which concerns the providing of arms and explosives to the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) doe not involve any gross violation of human rights and is therefore dealt with in ...

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 ...

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?

... 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 ...

way. I was saying if they don't reprimand them that would happen again. I would say that would stick in their mind, that if you have kidnapped one Inkatha member, kill him or burn him, they would know that anything would happen. It may happen that these people would come and pay revenge. They ...

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) ...

... During 1993 political conflict and violence between supporters of the African National Congress (the ANC) on the one hand and supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP) on the other was rife in Plainhill and its surrounding ...

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.

MR SINGARAM: Well I would like to put it into context that the ANC never hated the IFP, Inkatha was formed with the blessings of the ANC and the ANC has been the most reluctant liberation movement to use arms and this is testament to signing the Geneva Convention, this is why one of the first ...

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

... offences were committed. The applicant and members of his family lived among people, the majority of whom were either members or supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party. Their Chief was Bhekisizwe Luthuli who was one of the leaders of the IFP in the area. The applicant's father was an Induna ...