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 applicant states that during all relevant times he was a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP) and was the secretary thereof in the Kwa Nyavu area. He stated that he received military training in the use of firearms at Amatikulu.

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

The committee accepts the evidence that the applicant was a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) when the events referred to herein occurred. There is also no dispute that at the relevant time the area of KwaZulu Natal was engulfed in explicit violent conflict between the ANC and IFP ...

The applicant states that during 1992 he was the youth organiser of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP) at Isitengi in the Matata area of Ndwedwe. He testified that political conflict between supporters of the IFP and the African National Congress (the ANC) was prevalent in the Matata area and ...

... and his fellow SDU members were patrolling the township in defence of members of the community against attacks from the contending forces of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"). They had earlier received information from a source within the police that the IFP planned to attack the township. ...

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

On his return, he found that the situation in the country was very unstable and unsettling. The violence between members of the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), particularly in the East Rand where he came from, was a focal issue. He was drawn into this conflict as a member of the ...

... from the Durban Bar and I am instructed by Mr Falconer of the firm Larson, (indistinct) and Falconer. We have been instructed to represent the Inkatha Freedom Party as an interested party and also a Mrs Abbie Mchunu and our instructions are to oppose the applications for amnesty of two of ...

MR MOPEDI: If I may find out from you, why was it necessary for you to go there and to shoot those people of Inkatha?

I was trying all my level best to communicate and talk to these people. Many members who went to join the ANC, did that as a result of my effort trying to talk to them. Instead he refused, he threatened to kill me and destroy the ANC, saying that Inkatha would be the final stamp here.

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 ...

I accept in his favour (Lucky Ntsheta’s favour) that he had previously been injured by one of the Inkatha supporters and that they had previously killed one of his own colleagues:… he was plainly the leader of the group".

MR KNOPP: Now during that time on the East Rand, were there any problems between the Inkatha Freedom Party Members and the ANC members and the SDU?

MR KLOPPERS: Eugene Terreblanche, Mr Randall and others along with the supreme leader of Inkatha, here in the Johannesburg area, visited us upon which they congratulated us with our deed and said that we would get amnesty and that we would be released, that we should not worry.

MR NGUBANE: I know nothing about the incident whereby we waited for the Inkatha members coming from a meeting.

... in KwaZulu Natal. It was intended that the weapons be used to protect the interest of the ANC and /or MK which was involved in a conflict with the Inkatha Freedom Party at that time. There is nothing to suggest that the applicants were smuggling the weapons into the country for their own ...

They state that they were indoctrinated at that course. They, who were both Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters, were told that the African National Congress (ANC) were the enemy, that ANC members targeted and killed policemen and that, should the ANC gain power and govern the country, ...

... Defence Unit (SDU) in what became to be known as the Mandela Informal Settlement. He testified that the nearby hostel housed many members of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"). It is well known that there was extreme conflict between the members of the two aforementioned parties. This was ...