Ndwedwe election attack

Explanation
On 12 April 1994, five IFP supporters attacked nine employees of a private company who were delivering IEC election pamphlets in Ndwedwe, KwaZulu, near Durban. The nine employees were accused of being ANC supporters and were severely tortured. Eight were killed; the survivor was badly injured and took three days to crawl back to safety. One IFP member was convicted for the attack.

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Volume 3, Chapter 1

... the centre of Johannesburg on 28 March. IFP marchers are shot at by ANC members from the ANC Shell House head office, killing thirteen. In the Ndwedwe killings, eight people are killed while distributing voter education pamphlets north of Durban on 12 April. Members of the AWB’s Ystergarde ...

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Volume 3, Chapter 3

... Themba Zulu, were acquitted after one state witness, who had allegedly been threatened, changed his testimony and was declared a hostile witness. Ndwedwe 437 On 12 April 1994, nine employees of a private company were distributing IEC pamphlets in the Ndwedwe area north of Durban when they ...

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Volume 2, Chapter 7

Khanyile’s defence during the trial. 256 On April 1994, eight employees of a private pamphlet distribution company were tortured and murdered in Ndwedwe, north of Durban. The eight men had been distributing Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) pamphlets explaining voting procedures. Mr ...

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Volume 5, Chapter 6

... Flagstaff police station in 1993; r the 1994 pre-election killings by an IFP Youth League leader in A Section, KwaMashu and an Inkatha headman in Ndwedwe. ...

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