Inkatha

... 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 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 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 ...

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.

... that the incident is associated with a political objective. Although Applicant alleged in his testimony that his uncle was a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"), this was directly contradicted in an affidavit deposed to by his brother, Mbhekeseni, at Boksburg Prison on 8 ...

The Applicant testified that he was a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"), and served on the disciplinary committee of the IFP inside Dube Hostel, Soweto, where he lived. He was also a member of the Youth Brigade of the IFP at Dube Hostel. Dube Hostel was inhabited largely by IFP members ...

... apply for amnesty for a whole range of unspecified acts.  Only one act is specified in detail namely the training and advice to members of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") at Entabene in or about 1993.  The Applicant was afforded an opportunity to clarify his application and to specify ...

... I went to Tigane office because I heard from the loudspeaker that people are wanted, people whose families have been killed by members of the Inkatha. Daniel Molete was not at home. He went to Wolmaransstad to attend a municipal meeting, and I went to the office and I told the story as I ...

MR DE KOCK: Yes, Chairperson, tremendously, not only from the amnesty situation but also from Correctional Services, and the Intelligence Services also approached me with regard to further information and there were further investigations with regard to Inkatha. There was no time for any ...

MR MABUZA: They used to stay in our yard, they are Inkatha members.

Malinga was a member of the Black Cats as well as the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Applicant testified that there was an instruction from the ANC leadership that ANC members (should) set up SDU's and to do everything possible in their discretion; to arm themselves and defend the Ermelo Community. ...

I was in the company of Veli, who stayed in Spruit, I'm not sure about his domicilium. As people were being killed, we heard rumours that possibly Inkatha members that night are prepared to launch an attack in the ...

of the Self Defence Unit in the Khumalo area near Katlehong. The area in which the applicant lived was not far from the Kwesine Hostel which was an Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") ...

... the Security Forces would come during the night to attack people, to kill people and leaving behind red bands, now red bands were normally worn by Inkatha people from the hostels, to create a picture that it was the IFP which came to attack people at Polla ...

It is common cause that there was a political conflict between the supporters of the ANC and those of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the East Rand for political control over the area.

... main reasons why we decided to attack them it was because they first attacked us whilst in the company of the KwaZulu Police who were aligned with Inkatha Freedom Party. The attack was on comrades who were at Mkhize's house in J-Section, Umlazi. They attacked us with firearms and two of our ...

CHAIRPERSON: Yes. The document that's been handed to us, just for record purposes, is a letter with Inkatha Freedom Party letterhead, saying that there were consultations with political prisoners on the list and then, is your name one of the names on this long list?

... 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. ...