Inkatha

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?

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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

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 ...

... 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 ...

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?

... 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 ...

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.

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") ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

... at Ulundi, you say in paragraph 32, 31 and 32, of the Reasons why you did these things, why you committed these attacks, you say you were a loyal Inkatha soldier and so, in paragraph 32, you were motivated by a desire to ensure that the IFP was the dominant political party in KwaZulu Natal. Do ...

"Op die 8ste het ons die Inkatha mense aangeval toe hulle 'n 'rally' bygewoon het ter Tokoza stadium."

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 ...