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ZULU, Mr (first name not given)Age Description detention and torture of suspected informers Quatro in the ANC?s detention centre in Angola,, focusing on the mysterious death of MK commander Thami Zulu in Lusaka and the Commission?s inquiry into the case. The final segment covers the HRV hearings held in Leandra and Middelburg (3 and 4 June) ... When he was in Lusaka Thami Zulu was not confined to a detention center. He spent most of his time in residences although separated from the rest of the ANC community. At no time was he tortured or subjected to undue pressure. When he was released he was ill; independent pathologists found that he ... ‘Intelezi’ is a Zulu word which defines a substance smeared by warriors on their bodies before they go into battle. It has been a custom of the African people long before King Shaka’s time. It can only be given out by inyangas [herbalists] and is associated with power. Some people call it ... The South African public was lead to believe that political violence in KwaZulu-Natal was historical faction fighting along tribal lines, part of the spirit and nature of the Zulu, Shaka’s children. // …and we’ll do everything to preserve the Zulu’s role which was followed by King Shaka … ... Muziwakhe Ngwenya, better known as Thami Zulu or TZ, was one of the ANC’s 1976 recruits. He rose rapidly through the ranks and by 1983 he was head of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Natal underground machinery and a senior official of the Communist Party. In 1988 one of his senior comrades confessed to ... ... included the names of 34 people executed by order of the ANC’s military tribunal. But questions around the mysterious death of MK commander Thami Zulu in Lusaka in 1989 were not answered to full satisfaction. Zulu’s parents told the Truth Commission last month their son was detained in Lusaka ... We told them we had come to find out why our son was in detention. They told us that our son was not detained. Of course this was proved afterwards to have been a lie. Six months later his wife phoned me to say TZ was now in an ANC cell and in solitary confinement and that he was being tortured. ... ... every white South African in this room has been trained by the law – which I think was the conscription law. // Just for your information I was not so trained, I’d have never owned a gun, I don’t know even what it looks like. So you have a benefit over me. // Mr. Mkhwanazi it’s also a ... ... the whole armed struggle was the continuation of that. And actually we can draw the ancient wisdom from our forefathers when Dingaan said to the Zulu warriors ‘Bulala abathakathi.’ What did he mean? He meant that those dispossessors, abathakathi, the Zulu warriors didn’t ask among ... ... by Mbokodo, probably because he dared criticize their brutal methods. And then there was the case of Muziwakhe Ngwenya, popularly known as Thami Zulu or TZ. TZ was a senior MK commander when Mbokodo suspected him of being an informer. His friends in MK and his family deny this vehemently, but ... ... Sometimes members of the SDU would be patrolling during the day and people would be looting spaza shops, the taxis would be shot at. If you are a Zulu speaking person you would be assaulted and they would be saying that you are a member of IFP. Because you’ll have a spaza shop then you were ... We were scared for our lives since we were Zulu speaking… They destroyed the house completely, every single possession we had was destroyed. Park station, Johannesburg, the city of gold. It was here that Katiza arrived, as have countless other Zulu migrants. Unsure where to turn he followed a black commuter and bought a ticket for a suburban train. Little did he know it but he would be sucked into the heart of a tragedy concerning South ... 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 ... ... policy. So, there’s no ANC policy which says, ‘kill a farmer, kill a boer’ and all that. But there would be amagwijo of all sorts. You have a Zulu song, not quite igwijo but its traditional songs, ‘Ngeke ngiye mina KwaZulu kwafela uma wam.’ Now, that’s not a statement that I’m ... first time we know who they are. // ‘Military Commission // Daniel Mohato Mofokeng // Barney Hlatshwayo // Morgan Gxokwa // Thobile Gola // Enoch Zulu // Vusi Make // Joe Mkhwanazi // Johnson Mlambo // High Command: // Willie Nkonyeni // Raymond Fihla // Willie Zweni // Mpazamo Yonana // Andile ... ... me, did most of their schooling in Natal so that we could not lose touch with our roots. That is why even when I became a teacher, I used to be a Zulu teacher, because we were in contact with our roots. When I grew up my grandmother used to call me ‘Mfundisi’ [Preacher]. There are a few ... ... Dali // Thabo Rakubu // Senzan Gakhona // Barney Molokoane // Vincent Sekete // Victor Khayiyane // Abbey More // Patrick Motswaletswale // Basil Zulu // Aaron Makwe // Mzwandile Radebe // Watson Majova // Ndlela Sibiya // Matthews Nkosi // Ruben Letsila // Selby Mavuso // Vuyisile Bhiza // ... ... of the greatest social upheavals in the history of southern Africa: The reign of King Shaka, who conquered and assimilated many tribes to form the Zulu nation. With the arrivals of the 1820 British settlers the trek Boers soon felt that once again their freedom was compromised by the colonial ... ... got an ID I am a coloured person. In those days it was so crowded, when the police were getting you here and they suspect you to be a Xhosa or a Zulu or an African person if I may put it in that way, they had a tactic they used. You know there are those words: they call it ‘jakkals.’ Now ... |
