Inkatha

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 ...

MR HOBOYI: There was some fighting. The Inkatha fighting against the ANC.

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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.

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).

7 July 1992 whereafter Mr Makhubele was appointed as commander.  Vosloorus was experiencing a violent political conflict between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom party ("IFP") at the time.  There were different sections of the township that were dominated by the respective groups.  It was ...

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.

The Applicant applies for amnesty for a number of offences all related to a series of clashes between supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and activists of the African National Congress (ANC) at or near the border of K-Section, KwaMashu and Richmond Farm in KwaZulu Natal. The Application ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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?

... 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 ...

Mr Hanton, you've stated in your application to us that you are in fact an Inkatha supporter, could you confirm whether you were in fact an IFP supporter at the time that this incident took place?

At that time it was known that if we heard a rumour that the Inkatha was present in the township or we heard gunshots in the township, ever person who was not armed at that time would go to his home to arm himself. So when Mvula left, I went inside the house and took my panga and thereafter I ...

... funeral successfully. Even when my mother passed away in 1991 they wanted to know who we are because they are the ANC. We told them that we are Inkatha members. They were not searching because all they were looking for was just to steal the video machines and televisions and they were ...