Inkatha

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 ...

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 ...

After I’ve seen these people I suspected that those were the people who might have killed my brother. They were not alone, they were with some other people from another section at Vusimusi, it was an Inkatha section.

... 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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

... fore over several years of the existence of a third force which was something that operated as a relationship between the security forces and the Inkatha Freedom ...

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.

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.

... A third force and Vlakplaas operatives were alleged to be fanning the fires of war, but the most often heard allegation was that the police gave Inkatha guns and protection. In this ANC video police drop off men wearing the trade mark red of the IFP impi’s at the time. But the IFP denies the ...

‘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 ...

Daluxolo Luthuli, once an MK guerrilla who served ten years on Robben Island but then switched allegiances to Inkatha was the political commissar of the Caprivi group. // Training was not police training; it was military training, because if it was not military training there was no need for a ...

... 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 ...

... indiscriminate landmine explosions and of the murderous activities of a powerful and secretive gang tell their stories. We’ll tell you about the Inkatha Freedom Party’s accusations and apologies made on Thursday and we’ll explain why the Truth Commission refused amnesty to four people in ...

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.