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NTULI, SamAge Description Tokoza has seen some of the worst bloodshed between the ANC and the IFP. One of its victims was the young civic leader, Sam Ntuli. He was shot down in 1991 in Khumalo street, Tokoza’s notorious alley of death. His killers have never been caught. // Those who have killed my brother we suspect that ... In the months before Sam Ntuli’s assassination the violence in Tokoza had died down. On the day of his funeral all hell broke loose again. // Because those people from … immediately when we passed the hostel they said when you come back we are going to kill all of you. We are going to kill all ... ... Harold Sefolo, the murder of the ?Nietverdiend Ten,? the assassinations of activists Dr Ribeiro and his wife, Florence, the assassination of Piet Ntuli, Minister of Interior Affairs in the former KwaNdebele ? implicating the SADF in the Ribeiro?s and Ntuli assassinations ? and the attempts on ... ... image of the shady CCB commander, Joe Verster ever seen in public. We heard this week that he supplied the bomb that killed homeland leader, Piet Ntuli. And special forces were named as the killers of Fabian and Florence Ribeiro. ... ... 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 from relatives of Michael Mthethwa and Simon Msweli, ANC members killed by policeman and ... Today the reasons for the conflict between the IFP and ANC still depend on who you ask. The war may be over on the East Rand but the past has left its mark. // One cannot say there’s peace you know, because most of the SDU members and even although they’ve handed their guns to the police, but ... Brian Mitchell is currently serving the fifth year of a thirty year jail sentence. The only way out for him is amnesty. When he submitted his application in Pietermaritzburg this week he didn’t deny his guilt, instead he explained how the eleven murders he was convicted for were committed with a ... on 21 January 1987, where 13 people, mostly women and children, were killed when gunmen opened fire with AK47s on the home of UDF activist, Mr Bheki Ntuli, at KwaMakhutha, Amanzimtoti, near Durban. ... ‘On 2 December 1988, New Hanover police Captain Brian Mitchell ordered the elimination of a group of UDF members. The operation went wrong. Eleven people attending a night vigil were killed.’ // It was just I think the driving force behind it, behind the motives of the security establishment ... I received an instruction that Piet Ntuli had to be eliminated because he destabilized the area in KwaNdebele and in reality, furthered the aims of the ANC. // Cronje is not sure where the decision to eliminate Ntuli came from. It could have been the security forces’ counter insurgency unit, or ... SADF special forces’ assassinations of Florence and Fabian Ribeiro; and Piet Ntuli ... So, we are happy that we know that Phila is in this cemetery. Whenever we want to come and make contact with her, we’ll be able to do so. At the same time we are happy because we managed to get hold of her baby whom we’ve never met before, only in photographs. ... In the same year that the Ribeiro’s were assassinated, in 1986, Piet Ntuli was minister of the interior in the former homeland of KwaNdebele. He was put there by the South African government but then they lost control over him. As Jack Cronje tells it Ntuli became leader of Imbokodo, a ... ... bombings, murder and weapon smuggling. They will be asked about the deaths of the Pebco three, Dr Fabian Ribeiro, KwaNdebele cabinet minister Piet Ntuli and 40 other killings including 18 murders in Mamelodi on two separate incidents. These men have come forward on their own. Others had to be ... Victor Ntuli, a young UDF activist in KwaMakhutha was not home on the 21st of January, but Ernest Thusini was there with his family in an outbuilding of the Ntuli home. // We were sleeping at night. We were awoken by gunfire, just people shooting. One just went and hid on the other side of the bed. ... Fighting for independence was the KwaNdebele government who had a secret weapon, a vigilante gang called Mbokodo, which means ‘the grinding stone.’ At Mbokodo’s head were the chief minister of KwaNdebele, SS Skosano and minister of the interior Piet Ntuli. 1995, Mtubatuba, an IFP stronghold. Another warzone. An assassination attempt by the IFP and KwaZulu police on ANC leader Bheki Ntuli is unsuccessful. Then they started killing his family. Then, on the 15th of September my brother’s son was also killed, Jabulani. In fact they killed two people on ... nowadays. But it is more than the name of a place or a court case. On January 21 1987, 13 people died during a vicious attack on the house of Victor Ntuli at KwaMakhutha near Amanzimtoti. Wednesday saw the unusual situation where the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee focused ... I personally, I cannot forgive them. // As in the case of the Ribeiro’s the Ntuli’s want to know who gave the orders. Members of the SADF special forces and the CCB have to explain their involvement and senior police members have to explain why they covered up investigations. The remaining ... This week, Victor Ntuli’s mother, Kanyesele Ethel Ntuli told the Commission how the event changed her life. She wasn’t there when the incident happened, but her husband and three daughters were killed and her grandchild injured. And she could never go back to her house. // I left my house. I ... |
