Inkatha

MR NGUBANE: In 1985, we have heard that there was a fight between the UDF and the Inkatha Freedom Party, do you confirm that?

... way, in 1990 I was working at Glodan Engineering in Edenvale. We were assembling taps. I was receiving a salary. Then there were riots between Inkatha and the ANC. As I was working, but I couldn't go to work because of a problem with transport and I was also scared that I would be affected ...

MR GUSHU: As I have already said, I received most information from Keswa, that they were trained at Makusi Camp from Ali, therefore it meant that Ali was training these people at Makusi Camp, the Inkatha people.

MR MATHEBULA: These people were just shooting at random. Inkatha was just attacking everybody.

MR KRUSER: The information was to the fact that Inkatha would use the march to attack Shell House. There was no specific group.

Inkatha or ZZC or the...(intervention)

I left the place and I was ungovernable then. I took my gun and I went back where I was injured and I thought I was going to console myself with the fact that I had been injured and injured for the truth by Inkatha against the community.

... general situation, and particularly the conflict in this particular area, involving members or supporters of the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party, has been dealt with quite ...

Were they active in one political party? Were they members? --- Yes, they belonged to Inkatha.

He then left for Durban. In Durban he was an ANC clerk. We did not stay together, the Inkatha people intimidated him. I heard that he passed away in 1986, it was on a Saturday when I heard this news.

MR TWALA: We were defending the community against the Inkatha Freedom Party members.

... he was asking for too high a price. He wanted to take them from us, so we refused because if we had given them to him, he would have sold them to Inkatha, so we decided not to return them to ...

I organised for students to come into the rallies in Durban and unfortunately it hurt some of the people in the process, like members of the Inkatha in that area, for instance.

Who were these people? Just give us a clear indication? --- They were Inkatha members.

MRS MTSWENI: Maki or Mateo is my son. He was hacked to death by Inkatha members. After they had done that ...... I was not at home at home at the time of the incident but my daughter, the one who is present here with me to-day was also present. I was first from another place where I was told ...

MR MBAMBO: It is the Inkatha Freedom Party.

MR JOSEPH: Yes. Now, that is not a political formation. Were they members of the Inkatha Freedom Movement?

MR CLAASSEN: As the Chair pleases. Mr Ndlangamandla, could you just clarify your position within the Inkatha Freedom Party when and for the duration of what time were you a member of the party?

MR SHANE: Right, now before Beki, before Beki Khanyile was killed, can you tell this Commission what actually happened to your family’s home at the hands of members of the Inkatha Freedom Party?

MR VAN DER WALT: You were not a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party per chance?