Inkatha

The applicant is a member and supporter of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP). On New Years day 1991 his home in Nkulu, which is close to Dlovinga, was attacked and burnt to the ground by supporters of the African National Congress, (the ANC). His grandmother was killed in the attack.

... Monday all the political parties are being recalled. The present party that's in government, the ANC, also the National Party, also the PAC, maybe Inkatha and many questions are going to be put to these political parties and particularly to the former government, the National Party on it's role ...

"While the fighting continued I heard a big noise gun sound and we fled. During that incident one person from the rival Inkatha died."

... at that time that Ciskei had already pulled out of Cossap, that is concerned group of South Africa, something like that, that is where there was Inkatha, where there was Bophuthatswana, where there was - you were aware that they have pulled out of that group already and they had, the Ciskei ...

MR SINGARAM: Well I would like to put it into context that the ANC never hated the IFP, Inkatha was formed with the blessings of the ANC and the ANC has been the most reluctant liberation movement to use arms and this is testament to signing the Geneva Convention, this is why one of the first ...

... During 1993 political conflict and violence between supporters of the African National Congress (the ANC) on the one hand and supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP) on the other was rife in Plainhill and its surrounding ...

The background to the matter briefly is that the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP") intended to hold a mass rally at the Jabulani Stadium in Soweto which created the potential for extensive violent conflict with members and supporters of the liberation movements who were opposed to the idea of the IFP ...

... Reserve was experiencing a violent political conflict involving members and supporters of the African National Congress ("ANC") and the Inkatha Freedom party ("IFP"). Second Applicant is an ANC member who had received military training both inside and outside of the country, ...

MR McBRIDE: The Khumalo gang is an Inkatha aligned gang that reigned terror upon the community of Thokoza and possibly were involved in the killing of Sam Ntuli.

MR MAGQABI: And that sir, you were told that the deceased was a Zulu and that he formed part of the Zulu's who were Inkatha Freedom Party members and who were bussed in from Zululand to help the Police in their war against the freedom fighters?

... duties of the street committee included protecting the community against attacks from anti-ANC elements, in particular vigilante groups such as the Inkatha Freedom Party ...

... on 27 April 1994, Brigadier Gqozo was resisting the holding of elections in Ciskei. He had joined forces with other groupings, including the Inkatha Freedom Party, opposed to the coming elections, which situation intensified the conflict between Brigadier Gqozo and those political ...

It also transpired during the meeting that Inkatha warlords were attacking people in the trains and in the township and hence the need to obtain arms to be able to defend the community.

(i) Military training for offensive action within kwaZulu-Natal given by applicant to a group of Inkatha Freedom Party members during or about the middle of 1986 at or near Hippo Base, Caprivi, Namibia.

MR LAMEY: It is contained within the bundle. I will just give you an example. For example, the Inkatha involvement, the weapon supply, the Nelspruit incident, the Greytown incident, the Bheki Melangene incident and so forth.

MR HATTINGH: General, Mr de Kock has testified upon other occasions that home-made shotguns were manufactured by his means at Vlakplaas, and that those shotguns were manufactured on police expenses and that they were provided to Inkatha. Do you know anything about that?

MR LAX: Mr Wills, it's also quite clear from page 132 that the judge had no doubt the matter was an attack by ANC on Inkatha supporters?

MR RADEBE: Yes, I would like to add that this conflict started in 1990. Inkatha was attacking us and we decided to come up with our own illegal means of defending ourselves. This followed the circumstances and we therefore had to have our own soldiers to protect and defend the community. That is ...

MR BLACK: You state here further that your younger brother, James Mbokane was an active member of the ANC in the Secunda/Ermelo area and during 1985 and at Secunda he was killed by members of the Inkatha together with the Black Cats gang members?

The Applicant knew that these arms and explosives were likely to be provided to the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) to continue unlawful activities.  In addition he provided drugs to Riley for the purposes, as he thought, to pay off drug dealers in return for information.