Inkatha

... 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 ...

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 like this ...

... Hours later Anthony Casey, Johannes van Niekerk, Michael Belelie and Shelly Basson were dead, attacked by residents who assumed they were Inkatha supporters. Shelly Basson’s genitals were mutilated and her one breast cut off. Three Free State men pleaded for amnesty for the murders ...

... were the people who might have killed my brother. They were not alone. They were with some other people from another section at Vusimuzi; it was an Inkatha ...

The killers mistook a night vigil at an Inkatha household for the UDF gathering they were supposed to attack. Relatives of the dead wept as Mitchell told how he dropped the armed men off, waited while they executed the attack and finally how he gave the instructions for the burning of another UDF ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... // 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reggie Hadebe was meant to be a survivor. In the 1970s when most avenues of protest were closed he was a rising star in Inkatha. By the time the UDF began pushing against apartheid in the 1980s, he was again prominent. When Nelson Mandela walked out of prison Reggie Hadebe was the ANC’s deputy ...

... concentrated too much on the sad stories of victims and was not getting to the real story of our sordid past must be changing their minds. The Inkatha Freedom Party was the only political party who did not make submissions to the Truth Commission two weeks ago. It seems as if they will now ...

... or attacking capability. This request was agreed to by the then State Security Council and ‘Operation Marion’ was born. In 1986 200 young Inkatha men were secretly flown from Caprivi where they were trained by white Defence Force instructors. When they came back to KwaZulu-Natal many of ...

... 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 ...

half years after the Goldstone Commission found evidence that general Basie Smit and general Krappies Engelbrecht were involved in supplying arms to Inkatha, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission subpoenaed them to ...

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 ...

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.