Inkatha

... were the people who might have killed my brother. They were not alone. They were with some other people from another section at Vusimuzi; it was an Inkatha ...

The killers mistook a night vigil at an Inkatha household for the UDF gathering they were supposed to attack. Relatives of the dead wept as Mitchell told how he dropped the armed men off, waited while they executed the attack and finally how he gave the instructions for the burning of another UDF ...

... forces, but in KwaZulu-Natal it has not been that simple. At least on the surface this is seen as a war between supporters of the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party. The political leadership of the IFP ordered their supporters not to take part in the Truth Commission process. That is why we ...

... Most of the violence was rooted in the political conflict between the supporters of the ANC, who were primarily township residents, and Inkatha hostel dwellers. Bloody massacres on trains, the activities of a mysterious third force and rampant criminality added to the incredible ...

When they were in the middle of Khumalo street; a group of men accosted them, they were Inkatha men. They stopped them and they took out guns and they said they should drive into the hostel.

It was just I think the driving force behind the motives of the security establishment, was to drive the opponents, the UDF – the stronger side – out of Trust Feed, so that it is left within the hands of say in this case Inkatha. That it becomes a no go area and they can within themselves exist.

The battle between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party has torn communities apart. Richmond in KwaZulu-Natal is one of many regions that bear terrible scars of the continuing conflict. This week, IFP perpetrators and ANC families met face to face at an amnesty hearing in Pietermaritzburg. The ...

... the house was sitting full of neighbours. Mama Gabela if I don’t remember correctly, help me. // In fact we were happy when they arrived because Inkatha had been harassing us and they were constantly attacking us. And when the support group came we were pleased. We had hope and we could have ...

of the ANC would not want this violence. There wasn’t a situation in which two members of the ANC in KwaMashu, one member of the ANC one member of Inkatha, one stands up and says ‘I, member of the IFP, I’m in favour of a federal South Africa’ and this ANC one says ‘No, no, we don’t ...

From Inkatha’s point of view no rewriting of history should ever be allowed to hide the fact that the ANC spent many years far more involved in fighting and killing their fellow black South Africans than they spent involved in fighting the crime at the time in fighting the regime of the time. In ...

... with them so that we’re not in a position of reporting him. // Bishop Mbekizeni Khumalo has been described as a policeman and as a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party. There’s also a point of view which believes that he was simply a very clever criminal who took advantage of politically ...

Inkatha and the Toasters came from the other side; they were carrying guns to attack people here in the township. They started shooting people out there in the streets until they entered my home here.

... on issues such as military conscription for young white men, the activities of the State Security Council and the role of the armed wing of the Inkatha Freedom Party will still be held. Tonight we look back and remind ourselves of some of the images and testimonies of the Human Rights ...

... calculated political cleansing. We heard many versions of the massacre at the Truth Commission’s hearing into the event. We did not hear from the Inkatha Freedom Party. But victims from all over the valley repeated a phrase used by the IFP at the time, ‘we want to plant ...

Eugene de Kock’s evidence of arms deliveries to Inkatha will most likely lead to a criminal case and then we’ll hear more about these strategies of fermenting so-called black on black violence. The Truth Commission resumes its hearings this coming week with a sitting of the Human Rights ...

... A third force and Vlakplaas operatives were alleged to be fanning the fires of war, but the most often heard allegation was that the police gave Inkatha guns and protection. In this ANC video police drop off men wearing the trade mark red of the IFP impi’s at the time. But the IFP denies the ...

After I’ve seen these people I suspected that those were the people who might have killed my brother. They were not alone, they were with some other people from another section at Vusimusi, it was an Inkatha section.

... establishment was to drive the opponents, the UDF, the stronger side out of Trust Feed so that it is left within the hands of say in this case Inkatha, that it becomes a no-go area and they can within themselves ...

half years after the Goldstone Commission found evidence that general Basie Smit and general Krappies Engelbrecht were involved in supplying arms to Inkatha, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission subpoenaed them to ...

When they were in the middle of Khumalo street a group of men accosted them. They were Inkatha men; they stopped them and they took out guns and they said they should drive into the hostel.