Inkatha

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.

At the time of his death the Deceased was a member of the Inkatha Freedom party (the IFP) and was the secretary of the local branch of that Party in Mpumalanga. The Applicant was a supporter of the African National Congress (the ANC).

... to the African National Congress (ANC) were required to develop a vigilance on the farm because of attacks on the residents by members of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). These attacks were politically motivated. This resulted in regular patrols on the farms to resist these attacks and ...

9. The killing and/or attempted killing of an unknown number of members of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") at Zonkizizwe Township during April 1991.

"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"

... assistance in the conflict torn Kathlehong where, Nkuna had told them, the ANC's Self Defence Units were protecting the community against their Inkatha Freedom Party opponents. The Applicants trusted Nkuna, and bona fide believed that they were participating in a struggle that their ...

During 1990 he purchased (5) five firearms and distributed them amongst members of the SDU for the purposes of defending themselves and the community against attacks by the opposition party, the Inkatha Freedom Party.

... political struggles and conflicts that impacted on and influenced events at the workplace. He specifically pointed to the conflict between ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters. Members of both political parties worked at Langeberg Foods, and one of the major issues FAWU grappled with ...

... 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 ...

The area of Thokoza was no exception and essentially the battles developed between the members of the ANC and its allies on the one hand and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and its allies at the time, on the other hand. the core of the fight was political power of the area which included for ...

... United Democratic Front (the UDF). His political activities became known to colleagues and members of his school committee, who were supporters of Inkatha, and he was summoned to attend a meeting at Ngwelezane. During the course of the meeting a large crown of people, many of whom were armed, ...

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. ...

... at that time that there was also a group of so-called Askari’s who were Zulu speaking. Who people in Guguletu and KTC, Crossroads referred to as INKATHA, who were operating in the area as ...

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?

... comrades was that areas whereby you find hostels, it is more likely that the people are predominantly IFP. And the hostel dwellers were viewed as Inkatha members because everything which we've done in the 1985 towards 1986, what used to happen was that if there were bus boycotts the people who ...

... that is not how it happened. I am an ANC member. I was not instructed to go out and kill anyhow but I was trained to defend people from attacks, Inkatha and ZP attacks. This is what we were experiencing daily. People like Harry Gwala told us that we should train so that we are able to defend ...

that there was trouble in Thokoza ever since approximately 1990, in the sense of a conflict or a fight involving people who apparently supported the Inkatha Freedom Party and who were mainly resident in the hostels in and around Thokoza and members of the community in Thokoza, predominantly ...

... going on for a very long time, and even the place that I was staying at, that was not my place of origin, because I was born in the place where the Inkatha people had occupied. The people there were fighting day and night from 1990 up to ...

... to be members or supporters of the African National Congress ("ANC") which was engaged in a violent political conflict in the area with the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"). Both Applicants were members of the IFP and their residential area was an IFP stronghold. Applicants and other ...