LUTHULI, S’Busiso

... testimonies of the violent clashes between IFP and ANC supporters in KwaZulu-Natal. This segment includes evidence on the assassination of Dr Henry Luthuli ? implicating police complicity ? and the assassination attempts on ANC leader Bheki Ntuli and murder of his family. We also hear testimony ...

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 ...

claimed involvement in her husband’s death, the case is still unsolved. This frustrates Sibongile. // ‘Alleged IFP hit squad mastermind Daluxolo Luthuli claims he was involved in the October 1992 assassination of KwaZulu-Natal Midlands ANC leader Reggie Hadebe and that he carried out one of ...

The training was not police training; it was military training, because if it was not military training there was no need for a political commissar and in the police force, a commander. Even the weapons which they were using, it was purely military weapons. For instance mortar, where can you use ...

Mister Zazi Khuzwayo was another ordinary person whose life was ended by a bullet. In September 1988 he got involved in an argument with a well known IFP leader in his community. // It was on the 9th of May 1987. My husband, since he was a businessman, was at his businesses and we then left with ...

If there was an UDF stronghold the Theloweni group will be taken because it knew the place very well. They know they targeted houses, which would be burnt, so when they arrived at night their task will be to throw petrol bombs and run away and the Caprivians will stay behind and they will shoot ...

The Caprivi group received a warm welcome when they returned to South Africa. // … Called to meet the president of the IFP who arrived and accepted them and welcomed them very positively and was impressed and thanked them for coming back and also emphasized the fact that he was not comfortable ...

You could not sit in the dining room; you could not sleep in the bedroom. We were sleeping in the passage. Just like that. // The killers of Dorcars Luthuli’s husband walked up to his surgery door one evening posing as patients. When he opened the door they shot him. // By then my little ...

A lot of incidents in Natal, a lot of them I was involved, directly or indirectly, but I was involved. Wherever there was a Caprivian really there was no need of people killing each other this way, but because of the infiltration of the Military Intelligence and the security branch within the IFP, ...

In all these cases of murder nobody has ever been found guilty. Some have not even been investigated. The killers walk around as free men. The victims still live in fear. // This is a Truth Commission; this thing is very good for reconciliation. Why they don’t go to that Truth Commission and ...

Over the next six years many of the Caprivi men were deployed in KwaZulu-Natal. Luthuli, also known as Mandla Nduna called on them whenever UDF or ANC supporters had to be wiped out. They became efficient killing machines.

was at the heart of the third 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 ...