Inkatha

On certain newspapers, Inkatha members sitting in certain newspapers, within the SABC … // Craig when you were a journalist did you work for the police or not? // No. // You didn’t work for the police? // No. // Well, you came into the police with a high rank for someone who didn’t. // ...

One of the bloodiest conflicts in our society, the ongoing strife in KwaZulu-Natal was hardly mentioned before the Truth Commission. Hopefully the Inkatha Freedom Party will be ready in the next week or two to appear before the Truth Commission. Perhaps we will hear more about it then. We also hope ...

... She also, after the unbanning of the ANC, she was an active ANC member in a politically sensitive area. At the time of her death there were big Inkatha training camps. Amongst the covert military operations perhaps training camps in those areas for RENAMO, so it was a very … there was a lot ...

... test of remorse is what perpetrators do to show they are sorry. In 1996 police captain Brian Mitchell was granted amnesty for the killing of eleven Inkatha supporters attending a night vigil in Trust Feed, Kwazulu-Natal. Last year he went back a free man to face the survivors of a community he ...

the length and the breadth of our country. But the unfortunate truth is that more people were killed in KwaZulu-Natal in clashes between the ANC and Inkatha than directly by the state in the entire history of ...

... conferences, meetings, vigils and memorial services. It was during a memorial service for assassinated human rights lawyer, Victoria Mxenge that Inkatha members attacked and killed 15 mourners. The police and the military did nothing to intervene. Nantie Steyn tells the ...

name of that AK was called ‘dead body,’ ”S’dumbu.” As The Gents, long before we used the AK it turned out that we are being forced to join Inkatha. We must go and patrol, we must now also go and guard another section, so that the Ndabazimbi boys do not attack. No one told the other out ...

No police came to help us in any way, even after the event no one came. // They were deliberately and intentionally giving Inkatha a chance to kill us.

One eye witness spoke to the police almost immediately after Skumbuzo’s death claiming she could identify the killers. Within hours Inkatha youth were at her house hunting for her. She fled to Durban. When she tried to make a written statement about Skumbuzo’s death police headquarters turned ...

Gcina Mkhize was one of the young, angry Inkatha supporters who volunteered for training. He told the Commission the trainees were welcomed by white South African soldiers when they arrived at the secret Caprivi base after a clandestine flight.

Inkatha and the Toasters came from the other side; they were carrying guns to attack people here in the township. They started shooting people out there in the streets until they entered my home here.

In 1988 the community of Trust Feed was divided by a power struggle. Upper Trust Feed became known as UDF territory and lower Trust Feed belonged to Inkatha.

It is perpetrated, we believe, by forces that are against the talks about peace. The violence is particularly connected with Inkatha and people are saying that openly.

On the second of December 1988, 11 Inkatha supporters attending a night vigil were shot dead in Trust Feed, Natal. The victims were mostly women and children. Local police made no progress in finding the killers. Then Frank Dutton of the Investigations task unit got involved. Dutton nailed seven ...

... of Kempton Park and the East Rand. In the early nineties it became much more. During a spree of violence residents who were not Zulu and not Inkatha members were driven out of the hostel. Victims of the terror came to tell the Commission in Tembisa this week about a different type of ...

of the ANC would not want this violence. There wasn’t a situation in which two members of the ANC in KwaMashu, one member of the ANC one member of Inkatha, one stands up and says ‘I, member of the IFP, I’m in favour of a federal South Africa’ and this ANC one says ‘No, no, we don’t ...

... claims. By last night more than 7000 amnesty applications had been received. Amongst these are 20 applications from the old SADF and 200 from the Inkatha Freedom Party. Some of the prominent ANC members who applied for amnesty at the last moment were Minister of Defence Joe Modise and his ...

... with a political motive. The police, he said, made him into a murderer and arsonist and then used him in the battle to win every inch of Natal for ...

force, because by third force is meant a secret force operating clandestinely and using methods of terrorism. Daluxolo Luthuli was the leader of 200 Inkatha members trained by the SADF in Caprivi in 1986 as part of Operation Marion. And he says this group was responsible for a large number of ...

... kidnapping and fraud. Did these two men give birth to the third force in South Africa by ordering Eugene de Kock and his men to arm and train Inkatha? Was the security police behind the train violence of the early nineties, and involved in massacres like Boipatong? To what extend did they ...