NATIONAL COUNCIL MEETING 7-8 December 2004
RESOLUTION
POLITICAL VIOLENCE
The National Council of the Inkatha Freedom Party,
which met in Ulundi on December 7-8, 2004, noted with abhorrence the
escalation of politically motivated violence in KwaZulu-Natal and the
apparent perception of impunity by the perpetrators,
Resolved:
to note with grave
concern that the political assassination of IFP leaders, the most
recent of which was the assassination of Langa Ntshangase last week,
have never been brought to justice; to reaffirm the
historical duty of the IFP and the ANC to make joint appeals to our
respective constituencies to call for a cessation of violence for
good; to call upon the
leadership of the ANC to respond speedily to the President of the
IFP's letter of 02 December, 2004, to the Deputy President of the ANC
appealing to the ANC leadership to show the political will to end
violence and for an investigation into the pattern of systematic
targeted assassinations over the last 15 years; to call upon the
government to make the fight against political violence a law
enforcement priority in the same way as it was done so in respect of
other types of crime such as rape;