Inkatha

It is common cause that there was political conflict between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). This conflict escalated with time. In December 1991 the 1st Applicant was approached by one Lindani Mthiyane, the chairperson of the Umgababa Youth League. He was also a trained combatant. ...

CHAIRPERSON: I understand that the political parties who are involved, or rather implicated in this matter, that is the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress are both aware of the hearing today?

... together, and that Mr Wiseman was retrenched because of that said lady and also because the said lady hated black people, especially members of Inkatha Freedom Party. That’s on page 13 of the bundle. And then he goes on, that is Mr Manqele, goes on to say before he could say anything, he ...

"In a snap survey the man in the street yesterday appealed for peace between the warring political groups in the black community. The appeal comes in the wake of an alarming increase in violence between the UDF and the Azanian People's Organisation and Inkatha"

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

... me that the woman who was with the white man is the one there that he be retrenched from work because she hated black men, especially members of Inkatha Freedom Party. She used to say we are hard to crack(?) because we haven’t got ...

... so the idea was then for me to trace who that could have been. Such investigations focused on the security establishments, especially after the Inkatha great scandal broke in July 1991. Then in order to appease Mr Nelson Mandela, the government appointed the Khan Commission and secrecy was ...

... victimised, and they left the place and then at the end of the day, they ended up saying in Vusimusi hostel where they were organised later on by Inkatha and so on. That was the only people who were problems, that area is just opposite the hostel. The area, the other area is adjacent to it, ...

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

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.

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 ...

... she wasn't and the same appears as far as Zondi is concerned. Zondi is the man who was sent into Natal, to Pietermaritzburg by the ANC to kill Inkatha people, we know that. Well, we know that, I say, that appears from the very Exhibit J (i) as a result of the information of informer PN666 ...

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

... may I also draw to the panel's attention that I received yesterday afternoon or during the course of the day rather a faxed letter from the Inkatha Freedom Party addressed by a Mr M.A. Msisi who in the letter requested a postponement due to the fact that amnesty applications in respect of ...

JUDGE DE JAGER: Could I just have something clear here? These people on coming from shebeens were shooting at random? Would they shoot at ANC people at random, at Inkatha people, or even people not belonging to any political party?

I've had occasion in the Natal region to be asked by cadres to distribute weapons so that we could simply fire indiscriminately on an Inkatha march and I've said never and I've driven in all parts of this country in the underground to get back there and make sure those weapons were not released ...

... National Congress (ANC). The deceased was a Chief Counsellor to the applicant's father, Chief Lindelihle Mzimela and a prominent member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Mrs Gumede, the widow of the deceased, also gave evidence that the deceased was a prominent member of the IFP. The ...

... 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 ...

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 ...