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Special Report Transcript Episode 49, Section 3, Time 17:22You had the Three Million Gang in the Free State, which played a particular role, which was very destabilizing to organisations there. You had the Black Cats in Ermelo, which even from the hearings in Nelspruit last week, it was very clear you have someone saying ‘I was paid by the police to kill an ANC member, I am a member of the IFP.’ you can see exactly the trend of trying to destabilize organisations, it is on your own records. You have the AmaSinyora, you had the A-Teams and you had the AmaAfrika, you had the Witdoeke, all of them part of the counter mobilization strategy of the police to a very large extent. Notes: Matthews Phosa (ANC Submission: 12 May 1997) The Chesterville A-Team, a state-sponsored vigilante group composed of Inkatha supporters, was set up by the Security Branch in 1985 in Chesterville, Durban, to counter the activities of the UDF, COSAS and other civic organisations in the area. Political tensions between UDF supporters and members ... The A-Team, also known as the 'Phakathis' was a vigilante group set up and headed by a well-known local councillor in the Thabong area of Welkom to counter the activities of the UDF primarily, and in a smaller measure, the ANC. The A-Team carried out a reign of terror in several areas of the ... an anti-UDF vigilante group that grew out of the conflict between UDF and AZAPO supporters in Uitenhage during 1986. It was headed by the Reverend Ebenezer Maqina, who had been expelled from AZAPO in Port Elizabeth in January 1986. a gang of Inkatha (later IFP) supporters who, with the backing of the security forces and the KwaZulu Police, engaged in vigilante-type activities to counter the UDF and ANC in the Lindelani and KwaMashu areas of Durban, and in some areas on the Natal south coast. a gang of IFP-aligned vigilantes that conducted attacks on ANC members, principally in Wesselton and Ermelo, Eastern Transvaal, from 1990 to 1992. The gang, which received military training from Inkatha at the Mkuze camp in KwaZulu Natal in the early1990s, was supported by certain community ... A vigilante group, operating with police support, formed to counter the activities of the UDF and the ANC in the Kroonstad area, OFS. They conducted frequent random attacks on perceived political activists between 1984 and 1993. |
