Inkatha

MR MABHENA: After I have seen these people I suspected that those were the people who might have killed my brother. They were not alone, they were with some people from another section at Vusimuzi. It was an Inkatha section.

The training was given to him and other youths who supported the ANC because at the time in the East Rand township residents were being attacked by Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") supporters and members of the Security Forces, viz the South African Police Force ("SAP"). Initially, the Applicant ...

... the funeral of a prominent member of the Ratanda - Heidelberg branch of the African National Congress who had been killed by a supporter of the Inkatha Freedom Party. The applicant was a member of the African National Congress Youth League, holding position of Secretary for Sports, Arts and ...

Applicant testified in support of the application. The salient features of his evidence are that at all material times he was a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") and the chairperson of the Mfolo North branch of the IFP Youth Brigade. The IFP was engaged in a violent political conflict ...

At the relevant time the applicant was a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"). Presently he is serving a long term of imprisonment for some of the offences which he committed, ranging from murder to attempted murder of members and supporters of the African National Congress ("ANC") in the ...

... League (ANCYL). He patrolled the area with colleagues in order to protect themselves and the community in general from the attacks by members of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) with which the ANC was in conflict. His immediate commander was Mr Nkosi at whose home the groups would congregate ...

He also warned me and said that he has a good relationship with Inkatha, the IFP and also with Botswana and that we must be careful to make sure that we only take the weapons of ANC people.

MR MAVUSO: I don't even know the legal representative, only Inkatha people knew that legal representative, but I'm told he's here, or he's here in Pretoria.

... gathering in this country, was that it was established publicly that the Security Branch and the South African Government had been funding Inkatha and specifically UWUSA, the Zulu trade union, to the tune of R500 000. This was a top secret operation instituted, planned from the top in ...

MR TEKANE: I do not remember the year but it was during the time when Inkatha was attacking people in the townships and we were given an order to go and protect the people, we were given very dangerous weapons. I would not estimate a number of people we were fighting but we managed to defeat them, ...

MR LAX: Now your co-applicant was the assistant leader of the Inkatha youth, did you know that?

... It was also stated publicly that they without the involvement of the government, were going to set up a negotiating table and that the ANC and Inkatha would ...

... people who was in that violence. There was a company car hi-jacked. Rufus went there and when he arrived there there was violence between ANC and Inkatha. ...

The area of Thokoza was no exception and essentially the battles developed between the members of the ANC and its allies on the one hand and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and its allies at the time, on the other hand. the core of the fight was political power of the area which included for ...

... that is not how it happened. I am an ANC member. I was not instructed to go out and kill anyhow but I was trained to defend people from attacks, Inkatha and ZP attacks. This is what we were experiencing daily. People like Harry Gwala told us that we should train so that we are able to defend ...

... comrades was that areas whereby you find hostels, it is more likely that the people are predominantly IFP. And the hostel dwellers were viewed as Inkatha members because everything which we've done in the 1985 towards 1986, what used to happen was that if there were bus boycotts the people who ...

CO-OPERATING WITH THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY ("IFP")

It is common cause that the SDU's were established because of the political struggle between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party in the area at the time.

At all material times, Applicant was a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") employed as a security guard at the Bison Board factory in Piet Retief, KwaZulu-Natal. According to his version he was approached by a fellow employee, Philemon Mtungwa ("Philemon") who arranged for Applicant to ...

... of Information. The applicant says he required the arms to defend himself and other ANC supporters who were being attacked by members of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") and other agents of the previous ...