Inkatha

Skumbuzo Ngwenya’s family may never know who killed him. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission may do better than the courts, as long as the Inkatha Freedom Party stays out of the process, whether as victims or as perpetrators.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

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

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... Most of the violence was rooted in the political conflict between the supporters of the ANC, who were primarily township residents, and Inkatha hostel dwellers. Bloody massacres on trains, the activities of a mysterious third force and rampant criminality added to the incredible ...

... 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 ...

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.

From Inkatha’s point of view no rewriting of history should ever be allowed to hide the fact that the ANC spent many years far more involved in fighting and killing their fellow black South Africans than they spent involved in fighting the crime at the time in fighting the regime of the time. In ...

... 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 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.’’