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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 ... 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 ... ‘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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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. ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... an ID I’m 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 ... serve the industries of Kempton Park and the East Rand. In the early nineties it became much more. During a spree of violence residents who were not Zulu and not Inkatha members were driven out of the hostel. Victims of the terror came to tell the Commission in Tembisa this week about a different ... Times, enlarges on a police cover up. // And unfortunately for them, Chris Bateman who reported on the Cape Times went to the scene; he spoke fluent Zulu, found three eye witnesses to the shootings. // No policeman came to me to tell me anything. I saw it with my own eyes on TV, that’s the ... There were shots and people were crying. As I was running a white person said ‘Zulu, capture him, there he is’ and I went straight into the passage. When I got into the passage they couldn’t see me anymore and I heard a loud bang of a gun behind me, seven times. I ran just ... ... Northern Natal a volkstaat. In a declaration they stated their right to retain the land the Boer community obtained through negotiations with the Zulu nation a century ago. Leader of the Northern Natal Boer Commando and also leader of the Orde Boerevolk is Leonard Veenendal. He was released ... ... 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 ... is a staunch supporter of the Inkatha Freedom Party. At this rally in April 1994 his Natal Boer Commando pledged their loyalty and protection to the Zulu king. Veenendal has played a key role in the military training of IFP militants. But while Veenendal escaped justice in Namibia he found himself ... Two Zulu youths were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. ... 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 ... Within days two Zulu youths were brought here, to Winnie Mandela’s house. She asked they be shown the location of Dr Asvat’s surgery. Their guide was Katiza. ... 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 ... |
