Inkatha

It is common cause that there was political conflict between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). This conflict escalated with time. In December 1991 the 1st Applicant was approached by one Lindani Mthiyane, the chairperson of the Umgababa Youth League. He was also a trained combatant. ...

CHAIRPERSON: I understand that the political parties who are involved, or rather implicated in this matter, that is the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress are both aware of the hearing today?

... together, and that Mr Wiseman was retrenched because of that said lady and also because the said lady hated black people, especially members of Inkatha Freedom Party. That’s on page 13 of the bundle. And then he goes on, that is Mr Manqele, goes on to say before he could say anything, he ...

... political struggles and conflicts that impacted on and influenced events at the workplace. He specifically pointed to the conflict between ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters. Members of both political parties worked at Langeberg Foods, and one of the major issues FAWU grappled with ...

violence. There were regular attacks launched against members of the community by inhabitants of various hostels. These attacks were linked to the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"). The principal function of the SDU was to defend the community against such attacks. Since Zola North where Applicant ...

MR MTHEMBU: They told me that people had been killed at Boipatong, killed by Inkatha.

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 ...

... victimised, and they left the place and then at the end of the day, they ended up saying in Vusimusi hostel where they were organised later on by Inkatha and so on. That was the only people who were problems, that area is just opposite the hostel. The area, the other area is adjacent to it, ...

... National Congress (ANC). The deceased was a Chief Counsellor to the applicant's father, Chief Lindelihle Mzimela and a prominent member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Mrs Gumede, the widow of the deceased, also gave evidence that the deceased was a prominent member of the IFP. The ...

JUDGE DE JAGER: Could I just have something clear here? These people on coming from shebeens were shooting at random? Would they shoot at ANC people at random, at Inkatha people, or even people not belonging to any political party?

During 1993 there was a great deal of violent conflict between supporters of the ANC on the one hand and supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP) on the other. During either April or May 1993 supporters of the IFP attacked a train at Daveyton. It was decided by ANC supporters that a ...

... Thokoza from political attacks.  The confrontation at the time was between members of the African National Congress ("ANC") and members of the Inkatha Freedom Party ...

... she wasn't and the same appears as far as Zondi is concerned. Zondi is the man who was sent into Natal, to Pietermaritzburg by the ANC to kill Inkatha people, we know that. Well, we know that, I say, that appears from the very Exhibit J (i) as a result of the information of informer PN666 ...

NL DENYA: The police and soldiers and the INKATHA were harassing the people.