Inkatha

MRS MATLHOKO: The people, three people were killed by the Inkatha group at Tigane. It was Mr Zitsha, it was Mowa, a certain boy called Mowa, and the other woman, I don't remember her name. It was the funeral for those three people on that Friday when my daughter was shot.

MR MACADAM: In 1995 two members of the KwaZulu Police and a supporter of the Inkatha Freedom Party were convicted in a Circuit Court of the then Natal Provincial Division for various politically motivated murders in the Esikhaweni district of KwaZulu/Natal. In passing sentence, the Learned Judge ...

MR STEWART: And that during your period of schooling at Pezulu High School between 1981 and 1984 you joined and became a member of the Inkatha Youth League in this area, is that right?

MR HADEBE: IFP, that's Inkatha Freedom Party.

MR PADI: How could you tell that they were members of Inkatha?

MR NGUBANE: Did you report the problems that you had with Inkatha, to the police?

If you - I want to tell you something else about the police. As I am saying that the Inkatha started on the 12th, at about six o'clock in the evening and in the afternoon at about three o'clock, it was on a Tuesday, on the 13th, we were trying to tiptoe and try to get something to eat in our ...

... sitting outside at the gate and one IFP member came carrying a megaphone, calling us to a meeting, and we argued. From there I started insulting Inkatha, his leader Mangosuthu, or should I say Gatsha Buthelezi. He then left and came back in the company of other men. They could have been five ...

MR STEWART: Will you explain briefly how you came to join Inkatha while you were schooling at Phezulu High School?

And from what political party did they come? --- They were Inkatha members.

... I could not understand this and I said we should re-open the matter and they had been threatened. We were told that if we re-opened the case the Inkatha would come back and finish us off. So we were scared that. That was the whole thing. ...

MR NGUBANE: Right, can you explain why you say that Inkatha were enemies of the community at that time?

MR LUKHELE: He was a member of Inkatha.

MR NGOBESE: As I’ve already mentioned that the Committee was elected because the community wanted to object what Inkatha was doing to them. The committee was involved in solving problems of the community. The problems ¼(intervention)

... like hand grenades, I also still remember that there was something at Esikhawini at the time because there was Mr Khumalo who was in assistance of Inkatha. He too sent me to fetch some of the hand grenades at the camp. And some arms came with Joyful Mthethwa. I am not quite sure where he got ...

were going to be killed because I was known as a woman of ANC. I was with my daughter, my first-born, who is 17 now. We arrived there and we found Inkatha people inside the court. Most people in there were Inkatha people, and they refused that ANC people should go inside. I was the only one ...

... in the region. With this assassination a lot of anger was unleashed and a spiral of violence flared in the townships around Durban. ANC and Inkatha supporters were caught up in the most intense violence this country has ever seen. Women were not left out of this as men on both sides ...

... Parliament to ... (inaudible). It doesn't matter who is giving the testimony. We take testimony from people from different organizations, whether Inkatha, ANC ... (inaudible). We're relying on you. We are here at Empangeni, because in other areas where we have been the holes are full. Now, ...

MR MAJOLA: Yes, but because Inkatha was then involved.

... looking at his background which will summarise the first section of his affidavit. Mr Mbambo, you've been a loyal supporter of the, initially Inkatha Movement and later than that the Inkatha Freedom Party prior to your ...