22 May 1996
Former South African Defence Force (SADF) Chief Tienie Groenewald was acquitted by the Durban Supreme Court on all charges related to the 1987 KwaMakhutha Massacre. The KwaMakutha attack, in which thirteen people, mostly women and children, were killed and several injured, was launched on the house of United Democratic Front (UDF) activist Bheki Ntuli. Groenewald was acquitted together with other members of the SADF and Inkatha Freedom Party members such as M.Z. Khumalo.
References
Dixon, Norm, (1996), Anger as massacre generals acquitted, from Green Left Weekly, 30 October [online], Available at www.greenleft.org.au [Accessed: 20 May 2014]|Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.