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30-736: The Ingonyama Trust is a corporate entity that was established by the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly in April 1994, days before South Africa's first democratic elections . The establishment of the Ingonyama Trust resulted from a secret deal between the National Party and the Inkatha Freedom Party that convinced the IFP to set aside its planned boycott of elections. The Ingonyama Trust

60-528: A Bachelor of Commerce degree. However, he later abandoned his studies in Stellenbosch and went to University of Pretoria , where he enrolled for a BSc Mil. degree. He graduated in 1953. In 1962, Malan married Magrietha Johanna van der Walt; the couple had two sons and one daughter. At the end of 1949, the first military degree course for officers was advertised and Malan joined the Permanent Force as

90-547: A paedophilia ring in the 1980s. The book, The Lost Boys of Bird Island contains testimony that Malan used his position as Defence Minister to kidnap and ferry young Coloured boys to an island off the coast of South Africa by helicopter, under the pretext of going on a fishing trip. They were then allegedly raped and otherwise sexually abused by Malan and other members of the ring who purportedly included local businessman Dave Allen, former minister of environmental affairs John Wiley , and at least one other government minister who

120-713: A cadet, going on to complete his BSc Mil at the University of Pretoria in 1953. Malan was commissioned in the Navy and served in the Marines based on Robben Island. When they were disbanded, he was transferred back into the Army as a lieutenant. Malan was earmarked for high office from early on in his military career; one of the many courses he attended was the Regular Command and General Staff Officers Course at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas in

150-798: A conspiracy to create war between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), and maintaining white minority rule. The charges related to an attack in January 1987 on the home of Victor Ntuli , an ANC activist, in KwaMakhutha township near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal . Malan and the other accused were bailed and ordered to appear in court again on 1 December 1995. A seven-month trial then ensued and brought hostility between black and white South Africans to

180-455: A proxy force, in the tradition of divide and rule . However, all of the defendants were acquitted. Districts of the province and population at the 1991 census. 28°19′00″S 31°25′00″E  /  28.3167°S 31.4167°E  / -28.3167; 31.4167 Magnus Malan General Magnus André de Merindol Malan SSA , OMSG , SD , SM , MP (30 January 1930 – 18 July 2011)

210-436: A total communist onslaught, for which an encompassing national strategy was devised. This entailed placing policing, intelligence and aspects of civic affairs under control of generals. The ANC and SWAPO were branded as terrorist organizations, while splinter groups ( UNITA and RENAMO ) were bolstered in neighbouring and Frontline States . Cross-border raids targeted suspected bases of insurgents or activists, while at home

240-559: Is believed to be one of the very few, if not the only, interviews Malan gave outside of South Africa. In 2006, he published an autobiography titled My Life With the SA Defence Force. Malan died at his home in Pretoria on 18 July 2011. He was survived by his wife, 3 children and 9 grandchildren. In August 2018, a book by a former apartheid-era policeman Mark Minnie and journalist Chris Steyn alleged that Malan had been involved in

270-415: Is not named but is still alive. The book, however, contained sufficient information for readers to conclude that former finance minister, Barend du Plessis , was the implicated living minister. Dave Allen was later arrested for paedophilia but was found dead from an apparent suicide before he was due to appear in court. Wiley was found dead just weeks later. Mark Minnie, one of the authors of Lost Boys

300-580: The Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool but later moved to Dr Danie Craven ’s Physical Education Brigade in Kimberley , where he completed his matriculation. He wanted to join the South African armed forces immediately after his matriculation, but his father advised him first to complete his university studies. As a result of this advice, Malan enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch in 1949 to study for

330-491: The Progressive Federal Party such as Harry Schwarz and Philip Myburgh, who both served as shadow defence ministers at various points during the 1980s. In July 1991, following a scandal involving secret government funding to the Inkatha Freedom Party and other opponents of the African National Congress , President F. W. de Klerk removed Malan from his influential post of defence minister and appointed him as

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360-717: The South African Military Academy . In 1973, Malan was appointed as Chief of the South African Army and three years later as Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF). As Chief of the SADF he implemented many administrative changes that earned him great admiration in military circles. During this period he became very close to P.W. Botha , the then Minister of Defence and later Prime Minister and State President of South Africa . Malan

390-563: The United States of America from 1962 to 1963. During this time he was introduced to President J.F. Kennedy and spent time doing manouvres with an American Armoured Division. In 1967, at age 36, while stationed in Windhoek and holding the rank of colonel, Malan joined the secretive Broederbond organization. He went on to serve as commanding officer of various formations , including Western Province Command , South West Africa Command , and

420-535: The Swazi monarchs' traditional realm, and the South African government hoped to use the homeland as a buffer zone against guerrilla infiltration from Mozambique . South Africa responded to the failure of the transfer by temporarily suspending the autonomy of KaNgwane, then restoring it in December 1982 and granting it nominal self-rule in 1984. KwaZulu was merged with the surrounding South African province of Natal to form

450-732: The Trust Board appointed by the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development following a consultative process with the KwaZulu-Natal Premier , Executive Council and the KwaZulu - Natal Provincial House of Traditional Leaders. The King remains the sole Trustee and he (or his nominee) chairs the Board. The Trust Board is tasked with the responsibility of administering the Trust and Trust land for

480-460: The allegations and Steyn for having a conflict of interest; and asserted that this has had a negative impact on the victims getting justice. In April 2019, a major South African newspaper, Rapport, published an apology for their reporting based on the book. The newspaper apologised to the surviving relatives of Malan as new evidence had emerged that cast doubt on the contents of the book and the key allegations were based on unsubstantiated hearsay. On

510-610: The army entered townships from 1984 onwards to stifle unrest. Elements in the Inkhata Freedom Party were used as a proxy force, and rogue soldiers and policemen in the CCB assassinated opponents. Malan's father was a professor of biochemistry at the University of Pretoria and later a member of parliament (1948–1966) and Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees (1961–1966) of the House of Assembly. He started his high school education at

540-530: The benefit, material welfare and social well-being of the Zulu nation, who continue to occupy the land as they historically have done. The Trust owns 29.67% of the land in KwaZulu-Natal , which is equivalent to 28,000 square kilometres, or 10,811 square miles. The Board of the Trust consists of Inkosi Thanduyise Mzimela who is the chairperson of the Board as nominated by His Majesty the King MisuZulu kaZwelithini , and

570-419: The eight members appointed by the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform are as follows: KwaZulu It was led until its abolition in 1994 by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi and head of Inkatha , who implemented the limited self-governing powers decided by the South African government as part of apartheid , but rejected the nominal independence which four other homelands accepted, complaining about

600-584: The fore once again. All the accused were eventually acquitted. President Mandela called on South Africans to respect the verdict. Nonetheless in South Africa, the Malan trial has come to be seen by some as a failure of the legal process. Malan also had to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission . On 26 January 2007, he was interviewed by shortwave/Internet talk radio show The Right Perspective . It

630-426: The fragmented nature of the state, and the inability of the apartheid government to consolidate a viable and contiguous territory for KwaZulu, in the face of stiff resistance from whites. F. W. de Klerk later commented in an interview that he believed that Buthelezi would have accepted independence had his homeland been given the port of Richards Bay , a proposal that failed due to the white population's resistance to

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660-485: The idea. An attempt to transfer parts of the homeland, along with parts of the Swazi homeland KaNgwane , to the neighbouring country of Swaziland (now Eswatini) in 1982 was never realized. This would have given land-locked Swaziland access to the sea. The deal was negotiated by the governments of South Africa and Swaziland, but was met by popular opposition in the territory meant to be transferred. The territory had been claimed by King Sobhuza of Swaziland as part of

690-450: The mid-1980s) and seven Zulus, partisans of Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party of complicity in a massacre of thirteen people, ten years earlier, in a rural village in the KwaZulu homeland known as KwaMakhutha . The trial was an attempt by Nelson Mandela 's new government to bring to justice those at the top of apartheid's security forces. They were alleged to have purposefully fanned violence among blacks by arming and training one faction as

720-475: The minister for water affairs and forestry. The strike craft SAS  Magnus Malan of the South African Navy was named after him prior to the change of government in 1994. On 2 November 1995, Malan was charged together with 19 other former senior military officers for murdering 13 people (including seven children) in the KwaMakhutha massacre in 1987. The murders were said to have been part of

750-423: The morning of 3 March 2020, Johan Victor Attorneys, who represented Barend du Plessis and the surviving families of Malan and Wiley, released a press statement revealing that, after a forensic investigation was conducted into the allegations made in the book, major concessions and a lack of concrete evidence implicating any of the ministers had been found. The publishers of The Lost Boys of Bird Island, Tafelberg ,

780-422: The new province of KwaZulu-Natal . The name kwaZulu translates roughly as Place of Zulus , or more formally Zululand . In March 1996, two years after South Africa's transition to majority rule, the trial of The State v. Peter Msane & Others was held due to the accusation against thirteen retired white generals, including Magnus Malan (who served as defence minister at the height of emergency rule in

810-578: Was a South African military figure and politician during the last years of apartheid in South Africa . He served respectively as Minister of Defence in the cabinet of President P. W. Botha , Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), and Chief of the South African Army . Rising quickly through the lower ranks, he was appointed to strategic command positions. His tenure as chief of the defence force saw it increase in size, efficiency and capabilities. As P.W. Botha's cabinet minister, he posited

840-587: Was awarded the following awards and decorations: In October 1980, Botha appointed Malan defence minister in the National Party government, a post he held until 1991. As a result of this appointment, he joined the National Party and became Member of Parliament for Modderfontein . He was also elected to be a member of the Executive Council of the National Party. During Malan's tenure in parliament as defence minister, his greatest opposition came from MPs of

870-464: Was found dead in August 2018. The allegations were met with scepticism and rejected by those who were intimately acquainted with Malan, including his surviving family. In a review by investigative journalist Jacques Pauw , Minnie is described as "a sloppy, negligent and careless policeman". Pauw criticised the book's authors, especially Minnie, for the quality of the investigation and research supporting

900-620: Was founded as a repository for the communal land of the Zulu Nation with His Majesty the King as the sole Trustee. In 1997 the democratic National Parliament of the Republic of South Africa amended this Act, so that it is consistent with modern constitutional order. This amendment involved changes to all sections of the Act by way of the KwaZulu - Natal Ingonyama Trust Amendment Act 9 of 1997. This Act established

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