Inkatha

MR SIBISI: What I knew is that Lombo, he was a warlord on the Inkatha side and most of the attacks where families were killed and properties burnt, Lombo was also in front of such attack.

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 ...

MR SITHOLE: I was an IFP member, Inkatha that is.

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).

MS PRETORIUS: So there was war between the ANC and Inkatha in the Vaal Triangle at that time?

... 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 ...

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?

Around 1993 there was a gang of criminals operating in Tembisa known as the Toaster Gang. This gang was linked to Inkatha Freedom Party, or the IFP and acted in cahoots with the same IFP in terrorising the community. Among others, this gang used to murder innocent people, rape women and rob ...

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 HATTINGH: No, Mr Chairman, despite my client's answer, that is not entirely correct. Weapons were provided to Inkatha after the time.

... 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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: ...

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, ...

On the 4th of November, a group of taxi owners emerged. They proclaimed to be the Inkatha members. They were just the local people, not even one of them was an outsider. They hit me, comrade. They assaulted me on that day from seven o'clock and we were attacked at nine o'clock. I was the most ...