Inkatha

During that time Mpumalanga was engulfed in political unrest and there was continual violence between supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP) and supporters of the African National Congress (the ANC).

Mr Hanton, you've stated in your application to us that you are in fact an Inkatha supporter, could you confirm whether you were in fact an IFP supporter at the time that this incident took place?

At that time it was known that if we heard a rumour that the Inkatha was present in the township or we heard gunshots in the township, ever person who was not armed at that time would go to his home to arm himself. So when Mvula left, I went inside the house and took my panga and thereafter I ...

Around 1993 there was a gang of criminals operating in Tembisa known as the Toaster Gang. This gang was linked to Inkatha Freedom Party, or the IFP and acted in cahoots with the same IFP in terrorising the community. Among others, this gang used to murder innocent people, rape women and rob ...

MS PRETORIUS: So there was war between the ANC and Inkatha in the Vaal Triangle at that time?

MR HATTINGH: No, Mr Chairman, despite my client's answer, that is not entirely correct. Weapons were provided to Inkatha after the time.

a request from the SDU at Inanda in KwaZulu Natal to send members from Phola Park to Inanda to protect the ANC and the community from attacks by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) ...

MR FOURIE: The nature of this undermining government was when these people formed an alliance, Afrikaner Volksfront, the AWB, the CP and they left CODESA together with the Inkatha Freedom Party as well as the Ciskei and the President of Bophuthatswana.

... identify anybody at the shooting. It is also significant that he didn't mention in his application that children were killed. He stated that 6 Inkatha members were killed. When it was put to him that this information was not correct he conceded it and replied: ...

widespread political unrest in the black township of Clermont and the police were randomly shooting the youths and residents;  supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") also attacked the UDF supporters and the police sided with the IFP.  Although Nzuza was ostensibly a UDF supporter, ...

... and who at this time, I believe, had already left South Africa. And then there was a request for an assignment inside South Africa to look at Inkatha, to visit resettlement areas and obviously I would then approve that, give the budget for it and perhaps give them some further instructions ...

... be regarded as being improbable. I respectfully submit that the TRC hearings are full of that history of the kwaZulu police collaborating with Inkatha and I respectfully submit that what the applicants have said, should be taken as the ...

It is common cause that there was a political conflict between the supporters of the ANC and those of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the East Rand for political control over the area.

I've had occasion in the Natal region to be asked by cadres to distribute weapons so that we could simply fire indiscriminately on an Inkatha march and I've said never and I've driven in all parts of this country in the underground to get back there and make sure those weapons were not released ...

... may I also draw to the panel's attention that I received yesterday afternoon or during the course of the day rather a faxed letter from the Inkatha Freedom Party addressed by a Mr M.A. Msisi who in the letter requested a postponement due to the fact that amnesty applications in respect of ...

... League (ANCYL). He patrolled the area with colleagues in order to protect themselves and the community in general from the attacks by members of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) with which the ANC was in conflict. His immediate commander was Mr Nkosi at whose home the groups would congregate ...

The training was given to him and other youths who supported the ANC because at the time in the East Rand township residents were being attacked by Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") supporters and members of the Security Forces, viz the South African Police Force ("SAP"). Initially, the Applicant ...

... gathering in this country, was that it was established publicly that the Security Branch and the South African Government had been funding Inkatha and specifically UWUSA, the Zulu trade union, to the tune of R500 000. This was a top secret operation instituted, planned from the top in ...

QUESTION:: What I'm trying to imply is that other blackpeople say Inkatha were killing these activists.

... so the idea was then for me to trace who that could have been. Such investigations focused on the security establishments, especially after the Inkatha great scandal broke in July 1991. Then in order to appease Mr Nelson Mandela, the government appointed the Khan Commission and secrecy was ...