Inkatha

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 ...

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

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

... 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?

... 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, ...

... the area around Richmond, for some time resulting from conflict between members or supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) respectively. The background is briefly as follows: Many of the families occupying Gengeshe, are related but their ...

MR FOURIE: The nature of this undermining government was when these people formed an alliance, Afrikaner Volksfront, the AWB, the CP and they left CODESA together with the Inkatha Freedom Party as well as the Ciskei and the President of Bophuthatswana.

... leaders who had different objectives, e.g. in Cape Town they called themselves or they were known as Witdoeke. In KwaZulu Natal they were known as Inkatha and Port Elizabeth they were known as the Azapo. I may not know what their objectives were, but what was in common is they were all fighting ...

... 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 ...

... 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: ...

CHAIRPERSON: Do you recall when you started supporting Inkatha?

... in organising meetings of the ANC. The deceased was a prominent man in the community. He was actively involved in getting people to join the Inkatha Freedom Party. Applicant says that the deceased used to pressurise people to join the IFP and collected membership fees from ...

... 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 ...

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

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.

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, ...

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.