Alhoewel die berig al reeds in Augustus in die “Times” verskyn het, dink ek tog dat dit vanpas is om dit nou hier te plaas. Ons het al verskeie kere berig oor opleidingskampe waar daar opleiding verskaf word aan swartes. Wat interresant is, is dat dit voorkom dat die nie ‘n geregistreerde artikel 21 maatskappy is wat goedkeuring het vanaf die SAPD om sulke opleiding aan te bied nie. Daar word geensins in die libirale pers oor die opleidingskampe vreeslik ophef gemaak nie, maar die wettige kampe wat daarop ingestel is om blankes in hierdie tyd van geweld, moord en verkragtings meer weerbaar te maak word deur die media vertrap as “regse haat kampe” en alles wat sleg is. Waar is die regverdige en billike media nou?

Notorious IFP camp used for training
Paddy Harper Published:Aug 27, 2008
Link http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=830664

Group plans to force its way into the SANDF

MORE than 600 former IFP self-protection unit members are undergoing military training at the party’s former secret training camp in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

Their leaders are attempting to force the government to integrate them into the South African National Defence Force.

The group, which includes former members of the defunct KwaZulu Police and black members of the apartheid-era SA Defence Force, has been based at the notorious Mlaba Camp, near Ulundi, for several months.

About two years ago, the group held camps near the Botswana border, and earlier this year moved to Pongola.

Both camps were closed down by the police, but it appears they have since moved to Mlaba Camp, formerly the site of an illegal, and highly secret, training programme for the unit’s members in the run-up to the 1994 elections.

Thousands of men loyal to the party were trained and armed under the leadership of IFP hardliner Phillip Powell.

Though about 600 of the unit’s members were integrated into the defence force, the bulk did not make the cut.

As a result they are still rallying to be included in the military under the auspices of the SA Unintegrated Forces.

The deadline for the integration of all former guerilla forces into the military passed six years ago, but the group members are adamant they will be able to force their way into the military.

IFP leaders refused yesterday to say who is picking up the tab for the group members’ training — allegedly aimed at preparing them for integration into the mainstream military.

They claim they are being represented at a political level by IFP MPs, who have taken up their cause in negotiations with government.

When The Times paid a clandestine visit to Mlaba Camp on Monday, it found about 60 men in blue overalls performing military drills.

There were no weapons visibly being carried by the trainees, instructors or the camp guards.

Outside the camp, a South African flag was hoisted with a hand-carved sign stating: “Welcome to SAUF amabutho [warriors].”

Major Kereng Motate, president of the unintegrated forces , said yesterday that they were briefing counsel this week to make a Constitutional Court application to Defence Minister Mosiua Lekota to reopen the integration process on the basis that it had been skewed against those outside the ranks of the ANC and PAC.

Motate denied that weapons training was taking place at the camp , but other unit leaders said they were undergoing “full” training. The group is understood to be planning to hold a parade in Ulundi this weekend as a show of strength.