Inkatha

It was just I think the driving force behind the motives of the security establishment, was to drive the opponents, the UDF – the stronger side – out of Trust Feed, so that it is left within the hands of say in this case Inkatha. That it becomes a no go area and they can within themselves exist.

... At the Truth Commission hearings this week Mandla Nangalembe identified his brother’s kidnappers as members of a local gang affiliated to Inkatha and allegedly armed by the police. A vigil was held on the night before the funeral. The family had been warned that violence was likely and ...

The Black Cats were later taken for military training in Ulundi, where they joined the Inkatha Freedom Party.

‘The IFP stands for ‘I’m for peace.’ What a laugh. The people of Natal who had been dying since 1983 when the UDF was created had been painting up on the … walls in tegranny and Pietermaritzburg ‘IFP = Inkatha fears progress.’’

... At the Truth Commission hearings this week Mandla Nangalembe identified his brother’s kidnappers as members of a local gang affiliated to Inkatha and allegedly armed by the police. A vigil was held on the night before the funeral. The family had been warned that violence was likely and ...

The battle between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party has torn communities apart. Richmond in KwaZulu-Natal is one of many regions that bear terrible scars of the continuing conflict. This week, IFP perpetrators and ANC families met face to face at an amnesty hearing in Pietermaritzburg. The ...

... with them so that we’re not in a position of reporting him. // Bishop Mbekizeni Khumalo has been described as a policeman and as a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party. There’s also a point of view which believes that he was simply a very clever criminal who took advantage of politically ...

... forces, but in KwaZulu-Natal it has not been that simple. At least on the surface this is seen as a war between supporters of the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party. The political leadership of the IFP ordered their supporters not to take part in the Truth Commission process. That is why we ...

its exposure and it’s closing down in 1993 after evidence to the Goldstone Commission. In this time Vlakplaas supplied large quantities of arms to Inkatha warlords and assassinated several more anti-apartheid ...

... // Where are you going now? // We want to meet them. // What are you going to do when you meet them? // You know, you know. // We are here to kill ...

Captain Deon Terreblanche was commander of the riot unit at Hammarsdale. Along with Mitchell and the Joint Management Committee he used these special constables to drive a lethal wedge between UDF and Inkatha supporters in Trust Feed.

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 ...

When they were in the middle of Khumalo street a group of men accosted them. They were Inkatha men; they stopped them and they took out guns and they said they should drive into the hostel.

Eugene de Kock’s evidence of arms deliveries to Inkatha will most likely lead to a criminal case and then we’ll hear more about these strategies of fermenting so-called black on black violence. The Truth Commission resumes its hearings this coming week with a sitting of the Human Rights ...

... on issues such as military conscription for young white men, the activities of the State Security Council and the role of the armed wing of the Inkatha Freedom Party will still be held. Tonight we look back and remind ourselves of some of the images and testimonies of the Human Rights ...

... calculated political cleansing. We heard many versions of the massacre at the Truth Commission’s hearing into the event. We did not hear from the Inkatha Freedom Party. But victims from all over the valley repeated a phrase used by the IFP at the time, ‘we want to plant ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... death. // The true story is that Jamile, myself Samuel Bhikizizwe Jamile, I have never killed anybody, I’ve never instructed anybody. I was an Inkatha man and these people were my political opponents, especially Zazi Khuzwayo in that he was against me, because he felt I was his political ...

... the house was sitting full of neighbours. Mama Gabela if I don’t remember correctly, help me. // In fact we were happy when they arrived because Inkatha had been harassing us and they were constantly attacking us. And when the support group came we were pleased. We had hope and we could have ...