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NTULI, EAge Description ... Harold Sefolo, the murder of the ?Nietverdiend Ten,? the assassinations of activists Dr Ribeiro and his wife, Florence, the assassination of Piet Ntuli, Minister of Interior Affairs in the former KwaNdebele ? implicating the SADF in the Ribeiro?s and Ntuli assassinations ? and the attempts on ... 1995, Mtubatuba, an IFP stronghold. Another warzone. An assassination attempt by the IFP and KwaZulu police on ANC leader Bheki Ntuli is unsuccessful. Then they started killing his family. Then, on the 15th of September my brother’s son was also killed, Jabulani. In fact they killed two people on ... Tokoza has seen some of the worst bloodshed between the ANC and the IFP. One of its victims was the young civic leader, Sam Ntuli. He was shot down in 1991 in Khumalo street, Tokoza’s notorious alley of death. His killers have never been caught. // Those who have killed my brother we suspect that ... In the same year that the Ribeiro’s were assassinated, in 1986, Piet Ntuli was minister of the interior in the former homeland of KwaNdebele. He was put there by the South African government but then they lost control over him. As Jack Cronje tells it Ntuli became leader of Imbokodo, a ... on 21 January 1987, where 13 people, mostly women and children, were killed when gunmen opened fire with AK47s on the home of UDF activist, Mr Bheki Ntuli, at KwaMakhutha, Amanzimtoti, near Durban. ... ... includes evidence on the assassination of Dr Henry Luthuli ? implicating police complicity ? and the assassination attempts on ANC leader Bheki Ntuli and murder of his family. We also hear testimony from relatives of Michael Mthethwa and Simon Msweli, ANC members killed by policeman and ... Fighting for independence was the KwaNdebele government who had a secret weapon, a vigilante gang called Mbokodo, which means ‘the grinding stone.’ At Mbokodo’s head were the chief minister of KwaNdebele, SS Skosano and minister of the interior Piet Ntuli. SADF special forces’ assassinations of Florence and Fabian Ribeiro; and Piet Ntuli In Pretoria, Mbokodo’s rampage was becoming a headache and its leader, Piet Ntuli an embarrassment. // Piet Ntuli was originally placed there by the government to become the next chief minister, however he went out of control and it was clear that the government could not detain him in terms of ... 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 ... This week, Victor Ntuli’s mother, Kanyesele Ethel Ntuli told the Commission how the event changed her life. She wasn’t there when the incident happened, but her husband and three daughters were killed and her grandchild injured. And she could never go back to her house. // I left my house. I ... I personally, I cannot forgive them. // As in the case of the Ribeiro’s the Ntuli’s want to know who gave the orders. Members of the SADF special forces and the CCB have to explain their involvement and senior police members have to explain why they covered up investigations. The remaining ... Today the reasons for the conflict between the IFP and ANC still depend on who you ask. The war may be over on the East Rand but the past has left its mark. // One cannot say there’s peace you know, because most of the SDU members and even although they’ve handed their guns to the police, but ... I am very proud. I’m very proud of her. I think she was really brave. // At least to know the truth that Phila was in actual fact a hero; I’m feeling very good about that, because we were misled as to, we were told that Phila turned to be an askari, which now we know that was not true. So, we ... In the months before Sam Ntuli’s assassination the violence in Tokoza had died down. On the day of his funeral all hell broke loose again. // Because those people from … immediately when we passed the hostel they said when you come back we are going to kill all of you. We are going to kill all ... Victor Ntuli, a young UDF activist in KwaMakhutha was not home on the 21st of January, but Ernest Thusini was there with his family in an outbuilding of the Ntuli home. // We were sleeping at night. We were awoken by gunfire, just people shooting. One just went and hid on the other side of the bed. ... I received an instruction that Piet Ntuli had to be eliminated because he destabilized the area in KwaNdebele and in reality, furthered the aims of the ANC. // Cronje is not sure where the decision to eliminate Ntuli came from. It could have been the security forces’ counter insurgency unit, or ... nowadays. But it is more than the name of a place or a court case. On January 21 1987, 13 people died during a vicious attack on the house of Victor Ntuli at KwaMakhutha near Amanzimtoti. Wednesday saw the unusual situation where the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee focused ... ... image of the shady CCB commander, Joe Verster ever seen in public. We heard this week that he supplied the bomb that killed homeland leader, Piet Ntuli. And special forces were named as the killers of Fabian and Florence Ribeiro. ... youth brigades. But firstly I started to being punched by this man who’s called Mabena. He was one of the bodyguards of the ministers, mister Piet Ntuli. And then I was beaten by those people and they were having pick axes. Some of them were having guns; some of them were wearing sjamboks. They ... |
