BUTHELEZI, Boy

There was still a war between them and us. There’s no reconciliation in fact yet, but I hope there would be next time. // People do not have energy of fighting daily. You can’t have that energy. Fighting is not a sweet thing you know, it’s not Bar One, because we lose friends, we lose ...

A hymn, a list of dead, a man who believes he was an assassin’s target; a heartfelt apology and a Shakespearean plea that the full truth of ANC aggression be unleashed were the ingredients of the IFP submission to the Truth Commission on Thursday. It was the last political party to make a ...

The much awaited IFP perspective on the conflicts of the past was dominated by one main concern: that acts of aggression against its members had gone unquestioned. It appeared before the Commission as a victim and developed a case against the ANC as primary perpetrator. // I’ve decided to come ...

The South African public was lead to believe that political violence in KwaZulu-Natal was historical faction fighting along tribal lines, part of the spirit and nature of the Zulu, Shaka’s children. // …and we’ll do everything to preserve the Zulu’s role which was followed by King Shaka … ...

There was still a war between them and us. There’s no reconciliation in fact, yet. But I hope there will be.

But while the IFP asked for the truth about who conducted the violence against it the party had little to say about its own culpability. It did though apologise for having been drawn into the violence which it says it was in no way responsible for. // My own deep convictions that violence is evil ...

‘ANC / IFP Conflict’ // There was a plan by the ANC, at that stage to assassinate Dr Buthelezi. With regard to that particular issue it is true that a unit of the ANC did at some point take a decision to carry out an operation of that kind. When the ANC headquarters found that out it counter ...

men scoured the shacks of Moleleki section. By the time dawn had broken the SDU had rounded up 13 youths and the father of one of the youths, Alfred Buthelezi. Buthelezi, the SDU allege, had given the order to kill Blanco and was an IFP sympathizer. Four youths were set free and Thusanang Rikabe ...

... Youth League Vips Motloung was shot at a different spot earlier that morning, but the men still had one more person to kill, the wife of Alfred Buthelezi. On their way back from the killing scene the commander and another man shot and killed Julia Buthelezi. The aftermath of the massacre left ...

They told me there was a great need that we should fight the ANC at all costs and told me about Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi as well, that he was not happy about the fact that he was losing his members because they were being killed by the ANC and he said the time had come when we have to face the ...

... and 1993. This story really starts in the mid 1980s when the UDF rapidly increased its influence in KwaZulu-Natal. In 1985 IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi asked military intelligence for support, partly for protection but also for offensive or attacking capability. This request was agreed to ...

activity in KwaZulu-Natal. A few significant facts emerged very clearly from this report. The first is that Inkatha Freedom Party leader, Mangosuthu Buthelezi met with senior officers of Military Intelligence late in 1985 to request his own paramilitary force to protect Inkatha and attack its ...

Revelations of police involvement in violence and weapon supply has met with a denial from KwaZulu chief minister Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi on the one hand while on the other the ANC is convinced that this confirms the existence of the so-called third force. The revelations came to light at a joint ...

RENAMO in Mozambique and the Lesotho Liberation Army. And then he dropped in this insignificant little paragraph. // Inkatha. In 1985 chief minister Buthelezi requested paramilitary support from the RSA government. The RSA government decided on the 20th of December 1985 to grant him the support ...

... between the ANC and the IFP, but there has been little explanation of who ordered and carried out the violence. The TRC never subpoenaed Mangosuthu Buthelezi or any of his Lieutenants to explain their role. One of the most notable successes of the TRC’s Investigation Units has been the ...

in the Eastern Cape platteland. We also tell you more about the latest report regarding the third force and the involvement of IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and former state president FW de Klerk. But we begin tonight’s report with the hearings of the Amnesty Committee in Gauteng. Spring 1993. ...

... Jan Geldenhuys, Kat Liebenberg and Hennie Groenewald. Since then evidence have been heard that the Defence Force heeded a request by Chief Minister Buthelezi to train a covert unit which would be deployed against the UDF. After returning from their training in the Caprivi strip the men chose a ...