Inkatha

CHAIRPERSON: I have some difficulty understanding, perhaps you can explain. You were driven out, or people were driven out from Port Shepstone because Inkatha did not want ANC people there, is that right?

MR ZULU: I resided in Madada, the area that was Inkatha area.

... why do you have to search. They said we want Thomas. He said Thomas is not here, why do you want him. They said he is a suspect, there is an Inkatha person who has been killed. My husband asked when was he killed. They said he was killed on Friday evening, he was discovered Saturday ...

MR NGUBANE: When you say you were arrested and neighbours were affected, did you have any specific relatives that were killed by Inkatha?

MR KHABA: It is because there was an UHUSA office at Wesselton, that is where I found out, because I was once sent there, I discovered from the visit that they were working hand in hand with Inkatha.

MR MALAN: What would you have understood at the time, to be the policy of the IFP, of the Inkatha Freedom Party? Would they have supported it, would the President of your organisation in your understanding, have been proud of you or would he have been against what you were doing?

9.    The manufacture and supply of pipe guns and home-made shotguns to the Inkatha Freedom Party during or about 1989;

... 1983 at Vulindlela, where I worked as from 1983 up to March 1990. During that time that I was there I witnessed the beginnings of conflict between Inkatha, which started in 1987 up to 1990, and there I was transferred from Elandskop to Johannesburg. I would like to divide this statement into ...

1990. And as a result people were killed when Inkatha attacked the location and Sebokeng hostel in the evening that day. More than 20 people were killed, secondly on the 3rd 1990 Inkatha members attacked Sebokeng hostel once more. About 23 people were killed. I was called by telephone by ...

... sat through many applications, but it is nevertheless a critical point to traverse, and that’s the background to the political conflict between Inkatha or the IFP, I’ll use the terms interchangeably, on the one hand, and the ANC, UDF on the other, and that’s well documented and indeed there ...

I will just also want to ask that where you were residing it looks like it was a place where there were some meetings or organisation going on. --- Yes, there were two meetings, two organisations, Macawu(?) and Inkatha.

And do you know anything more about that? What was taking place? Who was the violence - who was the conflict between? --- ANC and Inkatha were in conflict, and it led to violence.

MR PINZI: We were patrolling so that when the Inkatha attack us, come to attack us they would find us aware because we would not know at what time they were going to come and attack us. That is the way we lived because we

... or Bophelong, but they were going to attack a place, some place between those two townships. Thereafter I informed my wife that it appeared as if Inkatha was going to attack and that afternoon, later on that evening when I was watching TV, at about twenty past ten in the evening, I heard a ...

CHAIRPERSON: Yes, indeed there is a letter on a letterhead from Inkatha Freedom Party which is dated the 23/11/98 and it contains, in the final paragraph of that letter, a request that these proceedings which in according to the heading of the letter, are the hearings here in Palm Ridge as well as ...

indicated to Mr Mabena that I wish to assist in normalising the situation which prevailed in Ermelo, Piet Retief and Secunda area. At that time the Inkatha Freedom Party, assisted by the South African Police, the gangsters Black Cats and Black Chain were terrorising, killing and harassing members ...

Have you related all your story? --- Pro was harassed while he was still alive. He was harassed by Inkatha until he was arrested. While there was still a state of emergency he was arrested, but they were not satisfied that he had been arrested. Up until the previous day he had been chased by ...

MRS NDLOVU: In 1985 I was at the store, Inkatha Trading Store. That was my own store. As I was there the kids came looking for my sister Ndlong. I told them that she had just left. They left, went to my home and that is where they found there. They brought her with back to the store. Suddenly ...

... Police to refuse to take and register matters where the complainants were perceived not to be supporters of the KwaZulu Police, or supporters of Inkatha. So we will try - although it will be difficult we will try to find out who this person was, and why they did what they did to you. ...

MR SITHOLE: Yes, it’s simple to identify the activities then. Personally as I was active and remember that it was a joint(?) - the Inkatha saga whereby the Inkatha were killing people, of which I was actively involved in fighting and mobilising the youth to fight back the Inkatha people, of which ...