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InkathaExplanation MR NGUBANE: And after your release, is it correct that you thereafter joined the Inkatha Freedom Party? ... fairly small march, where they actually walked down Plein Street in a easterly direction past the Shell House entrance. There was a small group of Inkatha marchers, they were escorted by Police. There were ANC - well I take it that they were ANC people because they had guns, they were waving ... ... I told them that he was my boyfriend, and they told me that I knew that policemen were not wanted in the township because they are associated with Inkatha. I told them that yes, I know, but my boyfriend is not associated with Inkatha because he lives with me. That’s how I responded to their ... We tried to find out from the youth why they were on Mrs Tabalaza's side because they came to us and told us that they were going to launch the organisation. They said that Mrs Tabalaza said that her ANC is in Johannesburg and I was supposed to be burnt because I was a member of Inkatha. ... were killed you were living in Esikhaweni Township near Empangeni and that you were living in an area which was regarded as a stronghold of the Inkatha Freedom Party. Is that correct? --- Yes, it is ... MR LOWIES: So if I understand you correctly then, on your version, it met with the approval of the leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party? MR STRYDOM: Are you a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party? MR WILLS: And from your application it is clear that you became a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party? Could you say which organisation? --- This is IFP. At that time we were calling it amabutho - Inkatha, sorry. ... [onduidelik] en ek wil nog uitgegaan het en die ander seuntjie van my dogter sê vir my - want hulle sê vir my ma, ma moenie uitgaan nie, dis die INKATHA’s die - ek sê vir hulle wat is INKATHA’s en wat kom soek hulle dan nou hier voor. En ek gaan kyk hier onder - ek gaan maak die gordyn oop en ... MRS MABUZA: Where was daughter was killed was killed by Inkatha members and the Inkatha was calling themselves Black Cats so these Cats were Inkatha members and maybe they know what the conflict was all about, or they knew at the time. I’m not clear on that aspect. ... had converged at the grounds for a meeting and when I got there I was told that these people were moving around saying that they were looking for Inkatha from Nkandla and it got me surprised because there was Inkatha from Nkandla and later on these people were going around killing ... MR KHUMALO: On arrival we found other people there. These were engaged in physical training and were singing Inkatha songs. MR VISSER: Yes. Wasn't it because there was fighting going on between Inkatha Freedom Party and the ANC supporters? The last sentence of paragraph 32, I will read it to you, I understood that the weapons were to be used in communities under attack by the apartheid State, and in surrogate, Inkatha Freedom Party, do you see that? MR STRYDOM: Are you a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party? ... if one analyses the evidence correctly, is that due to the circumstances prevailing then, the political situation, the tensions between the ANC and Inkatha which are common cause to this Committee, the applicant had no choice but to follow the command of his commander as it were and to indeed ... EXAMINATION BY MR SWANEPOEL: Mrs Mzizi, is it correct that you are an active member of the Inkatha Freedom Party? MR BERGER: So you will agree with me that the statement that David Mbele had tenuous if any structural connection with Inkatha, is wrong? MR SIMELANE: Let me put this clear to you so that we stop clutching at straws, we know that at that time Inkatha and the ANC, we're not seeing eye to eye, they are arch rivals. There was absolutely no need on my part to be bothered about any people who was at the gate, there was absolutely no ... |