BUTHELEZI, (first name not given)

... 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 and must not be used for political purposes, and despite the Inkatha Freedom Party’s constant vigil to keep violence out of the Inkatha Freedom Party’s ...

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 … ...

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 ...

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

... and developed a case against the ANC as primary perpetrator. // I’ve decided to come here, your grace, members of the Commission, because we cannot in all conscience remain silent when no effort is made by this Commission to question who has killed 420 plus of the IFP’s leaders and murdered ...

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 ...

so that they could take particular measures in response to what was then seen as a threat but which as I say Chairperson, a threat which in fact did not exist. I’m making the point Chairperson that we didn’t regard the IFP, its members as legitimate military targets and therefore at no stage ...

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 ...

... 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 a tally of ten butchered bodies. One of the youths, Vuyani Tshabalala, ...

... The judge found that the main purpose was to train a defensive group; this is in stark contrast to the evidence given this week. Strangely enough not one of this week’s witnesses was called to the KwaMakhutha Trial. ...

Ethel Ntuli was supported during the hearing by her son, Mbusi. Even though her other son, Victor escaped death by not being home during the massacre Ntuli believes that it was the IFP who finally killed him. No inquest was ever held into his death. // In November last year 18 people were arrested ...

detail of the proposals for a third force agreed to by the State Security Council, again at meetings where De Klerk was present. The aim was a force not linked to the SADF or the police which would attack the government’s opponents ruthlessly and use methods of terrorism. Ministers Magnus Malan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... cracked by the unit but in this instance the justice system has showed up the shortcomings of the Truth Commission. The investigation unit’s most notable failure has been its inaction over the violence in KwaZulu-Natal. 20 000 people have died here in the terrible conflict between the ANC and ...

... denying them a volkstaat of racial and religious purity. This week, two BWB fighters whose foolhardy attempt at war left one policeman dead and another severely injured asked the Truth Commission for amnesty. ...