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Special Report Transcript Episode 29, Section 2, Time 02:37They had said that they wanted to plant sugarcane. This was actually their slogan. They would say that just before they attacked the residents. // In farming terms you clear the ground to plant the cane. In this area of Natal it came to mean that UDF and ANC supporting communities would be violently cleared out for IFP takeover. This week a journalist relived his experience of the events in March 1990 in the Edendale valley. Notes: TRC testimony: Mlamuli Mngadi; Reporter (Hanne Koster) A week of intense political conflict in the Pietermaritzburg area, which started in a confrontation between UDF and Inkatha supporters when the latter were returning from a Durban rally funded by the Security Police. UDF youths stoned the buses carrying Inkatha supporters on 25 March 1990. Inkatha ... |