Inkatha

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 ...

... say something here. Mr Gordon upon four or five occasions used some of my visiting hours to clear up certain aspects, but this was more about the Inkatha aspects and the firearms and so forth. So during that short time to handle the whole book was humanly impossible. So Mr Gordon was there, ...

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.

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

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, ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

QUESTION:: What I'm trying to imply is that other blackpeople say Inkatha were killing these activists.

... 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 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.

... it is another example of the tragic bloodshed caused in this province by the constant fighting between various political parties, in particular the Inkatha Freedom Party and the UDF as it then was, and the ANC as it now is. This has been particularly evident in the Edendale and Richmond areas ...

... Congress (ANC). He testified at length as to how he and other members of the ANC were hounded out and harassed by members or supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). On or about 15 March 1992, the house of one Cele, a member of the ANC, was allegedly attacked and set alight by members ...

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.

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

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... Police on 31 August 1993.  Applicant was approached by his former commander, Colonel Eugene de Kock, to assist with the military training of Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") members at Ulundi in the then Natal.  Applicant duly participated in the training as an interpreter for his white ...

... at Ulundi, you say in paragraph 32, 31 and 32, of the Reasons why you did these things, why you committed these attacks, you say you were a loyal Inkatha soldier and so, in paragraph 32, you were motivated by a desire to ensure that the IFP was the dominant political party in KwaZulu Natal. Do ...