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InkathaExplanation Showing 521 to 540 of 597 First Page•Previous Page 22 •23 •24 •25 •26 •27 •28 •29 •30 Next Page•Last Page... 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 ... MR SINGARAM: Well I would like to put it into context that the ANC never hated the IFP, Inkatha was formed with the blessings of the ANC and the ANC has been the most reluctant liberation movement to use arms and this is testament to signing the Geneva Convention, this is why one of the first ... 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. 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). ... 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 ... At that time it was known that if we heard a rumour that the Inkatha was present in the township or we heard gunshots in the township, ever person who was not armed at that time would go to his home to arm himself. So when Mvula left, I went inside the house and took my panga and thereafter I ... 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, ... 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 ... MR SITHOLE: I was an IFP member, Inkatha that is. 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. 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: ... ... ("SDU") and an ordinary member of the African National Congress ("ANC"). There was a conflict between the SDU and members and supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party ... There were many questions that were involved, why did both the Inkatha Freedom Party and the UDF reject him? There were many questions but even when we learnt about a list of informers amongst us, we were careful in handling that type of thing because you could also have information fed in and ... ... the funeral of a prominent member of the Ratanda - Heidelberg branch of the African National Congress who had been killed by a supporter of the Inkatha Freedom Party. The applicant was a member of the African National Congress Youth League, holding position of Secretary for Sports, Arts and ... 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. Applicant testified in support of the application. The salient features of his evidence are that at all material times he was a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") and the chairperson of the Mfolo North branch of the IFP Youth Brigade. The IFP was engaged in a violent political conflict ... |