TRC Final Report

Volume 3

Chapter 3

Subsection 65

Victim organisations

7 The breakdown of violations by victim organisation shows how differently the conflicts of the past played out in the region covered by the Durban office. Victims who were members of the African National Congress (ANC) were still in the majority, but Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) victims featured as the second largest group. The numbers of killings were as follows:

8 Around 1 900 victims were ANC members and nearly 900 were IFP members. Nonpartisan or non-aligned victims suffered the third highest number of killings, followed by members of the United Democratic Front (UDF).

9 The pattern of severe ill treatment violations presents an almost identical picture:

10 Again, ANC members suffered the highest number of violations, followed by IFP members. As with killings, the number of violations suffered by non-partisan or non-aligned people was far higher in the Durban office area than in the rest of the country.

11 Interestingly, the pattern of torture does not match that of killings or severe ill treatment at all:

12 The torture pattern is much closer to that of the national picture, with the bulk of torture cases involving ANC, UDF and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members. Very few IFP members were tortured in comparison to the numbers who were killed or suffered severe ill treatment.