Inkatha

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 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?

... and what is important there is it has an S prefix. The S prefix has a clue in this document in paragraph 40 where you will see that the ANC, Inkatha, and United Democratic Front have files beginning with S but they have a second number. A first number which distinguishes them, for e.g. ...

... of a political struggle against persons who he believed to support the then apartheid government by corroborating with the Security Forces and Inkatha. The offence was committed in the course of a reaction to a group of persons who were seen to be working with both Inkatha and the Security ...

It was in September in the morning on a Monday, but he was shot in the evening at the hostel. Or there was a shooting on a Sunday evening, it was an Inkatha shooting. Then on Monday in the morning my husband heard rumours that there was a shooting at the hostel. We had relatives at the hostel ...

... place there were no other people, no other family members. They were gone already. We discussed about it. We realised that people who were Inkatha members used to go visit Mkolise. Mkolise used to go with them. What assured me about this is that I asked him, I personally asked him, and ...

DR ALLY: Anybody else? No. Now in your statement you actually mention Inkatha as the alleged perpetrators. You say and I am going to read from your statement. On our way we were attacked and the bus was petrol bombed by Inkatha supporters. Now, do you recall making this statement?

... given to him by Pienaar. The applicant tried to suggest that this was not payment for his nefarious deeds. He says his aim was to strengthen the Inkatha Freedom Party in Piet Retief, and that he would have done what he did if he had not been promised any payment. But the fact of the mater is ...

ADV SANDI: What about your son who said he was shot by Inkatha?

When I was still lying down this Inkatha van came around and they took me and kicked me. While I was still unconscious and bleeding and crying they threw me into the van. While I was still in the van they drove around up to a shop, where another gentleman came around by the name of Makobe who ...

When I went there to pick up the weapons, they then requested of me, to train them in the use of some of the weapons, as they were under attack from Inkatha on a regular basis at that ...

... the time members and supporters of the ANC, and as such active so-called comrades in the area. Accused number 1 also says that the deceased was an Inkatha supporter. Although the children of the deceased deny this, the evidence of Ngcobo and Zulu(?) certainly shows that the killing was an ANC ...

MR GUMEDE: I didn’t see him at that time, but when I threw the gun there, I think most people who were there at that taxi rank, they were Inkatha people and they saw me, but then they couldn’t tell the police. They saw me as I was walking towards the police car, since we were in one organization, ...

MR BUTHELEZI: He was a leader in charge of that area, under Inkatha.

MR NGWENYA: I was a secretary at Lusaka-B. I used to allocate people to houses from Penduka, people who had fled as a result of the violence and I allocated them to houses that had been left behind by fleeing Inkatha members. I also organised food for them.

there was a conflict between the taxi owners. You heard his evidence and his evidence is, that there was ongoing conflict between the supporters of Inkatha on the one hand and the supporters of the ANC on the other hand. That is what he is saying. He didn’t say that there was a dispute between ...

"The Court knows that the accused says he's a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party and the deceased was a leader of the ANC in the Pongola area. The probabilities are therefore that the accused was sent by someone to assassinate the deceased. Someone illegally acquired a firearm and ammunition, ...

"My clients (that means you and your brother) will testify that in pursuance of that letter, they and other members of the Inkatha Freedom Party spoke to you about this letter, on which occasion you could not indicate that you acted on behalf of or in pursuance of the objectives of the Inkatha ...

"All the residents of the Kwamadala Hostel are members of the Inkatha Freedom Party. Amongst the residents there are individuals whom are leaders of the Inkatha Freedom Party"

We were attacking members of Inkatha and the reason why we attacked them is because they were also attacking us, and we were protecting ourselves, at times launching counter-attacks, and the people I was with were Siphiwe Ndlovu, I don't recall the other ones' names.