Inkatha

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?

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 ...

... 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 ...

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).

... 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 ...

widespread political unrest in the black township of Clermont and the police were randomly shooting the youths and residents;  supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") also attacked the UDF supporters and the police sided with the IFP.  Although Nzuza was ostensibly a UDF supporter, ...

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

... 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 ...

MS PRETORIUS: So there was war between the ANC and Inkatha in the Vaal Triangle at that time?

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) ...

... 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: ...

... 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 ...

... Well they'd create an environment of instability. It was a classic divide and rule structure where they made opponents of the ANC, for example INKATHA Freedom Party. We must continue stirring the pot and make sure that the violence just kept on going, thereby the ANC would lose credibility. ...

NL DENYA: The police and soldiers and the INKATHA were harassing the people.

... Thokoza from political attacks.  The confrontation at the time was between members of the African National Congress ("ANC") and members of the Inkatha Freedom Party ...

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 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 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.

During 1993 there was a great deal of violent conflict between supporters of the ANC on the one hand and supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP) on the other. During either April or May 1993 supporters of the IFP attacked a train at Daveyton. It was decided by ANC supporters that a ...