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NTOMBELA, (first name not given)Age Description ... of the provincial parliament. // … Instruct us that they that although they are prepared to assist in giving their version of the events they do not see their way clear to do so before this Commission as constituted at present … // Thank you mister Coetzee // May I be excused? Thank you for ... ... that’s where we met Ntombela and two white policemen. Ntombela heavily armed with ammunition belts and everything, two white policemen who said nothing, and we just explained to them what we’d seen and we drove on. It was so extraordinary to me that they would be waiting for me there, ... ... March 1990 IFP had a rally in Durban, so on their way back one of the buses stopped there. My son alighted from the kombi which came after the bus, not knowing that this bus which was parked there was an Inkatha bus. On the veranda, before the veranda they met with the Inkatha people and they ... ... though central to every testimony on the massacre also chose to be silent about its version of the seven day war. IFP provincial MP mister David Ntombela made a stormy appearance. He claimed that the KwaZulu-Natal Truth Commission members were biased and demanded their resignation. Only then ... The crowd was clearly not satisfied with Ntombela’s refusal to testify under the present TRC Committee. // ‘He’s killing my father and my brother too in the seven days war on 28 March. Ntombela … I’m sick and tired.’ // The people of the Midlands are calling for justice not revenge. All ... If they meet any male they will shoot without asking a question. If you were a boy you were shot, no doubts about that. // We were scared for our lives since we were Zulu speaking… They destroyed the house completely, every single possession we had was destroyed. killed at a certain open ground in Palm Ridge. They were taken out of the taxi and they were killed. // There was a cousin who lived with us by the name of Mosanduli. They went to fetch him at work and they killed him as well because he was Zulu ... Khumalo was collaborating with the police, working hand in hand with them so that we’re not in a position of reporting him. // Bishop Mbekizeni Khumalo has been described as a policeman and as a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party. There’s also a point of view which believes that he was simply ... Mister Ntombela was a member of parliament. For him not to have been here during that period would have been problematic. He was a community leader, an InDuna. There’s a fundamental difference between his presence in the area and his participation in what happened. Towards the end of 1988 Mitchell and Terreblanche attended a meeting with Inkatha leaders including David Ntombela where it was decided to launch an operation that would clear and hold the Trust Feed area for Inkatha. ... burning houses in the Mnayandu, Shange and Ashdown areas I realized I had lost everything worthwhile in my life. // The people of the midlands did not only have to contend with violence. Floods also took their toll. // We suffered great losses after the floods and our six roomed house fell apart ... ... They said the purpose of that exercise was in line with what was going on, looking for arms and all that. But later on we learnt that it was not the purpose of the exercise, because only upper Trust Feed was raided by the police. All the young fighting men were taken to the sports field ... With that sort of background Mdlala and Harrington did not question their biased roles in the seven day war. Mdlala was called to arms on day three when Ashdown and Xaluza were attacked by two impi’s. Mdlala was in the group from Elandskop; IFP InDuna David Ntombela’s stronghold. // It was at ... |
