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right-wing attacks

Explanation
Prior to February 1990, violations committed by members of right-wing organisations took the form of isolated attacks with a strong racist character. During the early 1990s, members of right-wing organisations, perceiving themselves to be placed under siege by the process of constitutional negotiations for a democratic dispensation, carried out a large number of attacks aimed at securing the political interests of conservative Afrikaners. Isolated racist attacks on individuals were replaced by mass demonstrations and orchestrated bombing and sabotage campaigns. Between April 1993 and May 1994, right-wing groups engaged in a range of activities to disrupt the negotiations process then underway, and later to destabilise the electoral process. Many of these acts were directed against persons perceived to be supporters and leaders of the ANC, the SACP, the UDF, the PAC and the National Party, and resulted in gross violations of human rights. Violations of a purely racial character were also carried out against black people. During the pre-election period, the AWB and other right-wing organisations engaged in a bombing campaign with the aim of derailing the electoral process. The objective of these activities was to move towards 'overthrowing' the National Party government and to establish a Boererepubliek (Boer republic) and volkstaat. Public areas such as taxi ranks, bus stops and railway stations were targeted, as were private residential and business premises of those associated with the ANC or the unfolding democratic order. State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all. A number of formerly 'white' schools were bombed. The campaign involved many acts of sabotage, some of which led to the loss of life.

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... staying in hostels fighting the residents in the township and that it was their primary duty as SDU members to defend the community from such attacks. Significantly, all ANC members that had prior to the height of violence stayed at these hostels had moved out of those hostels because of ...
MR VAN DER MERWE: Well let me put it this way. You expected attacks on that facility earlier already, am I correct to say that?
and the driver and Comrade Chris, and Comrade Chris is telling us that the people are complaining and the MKs here inside the country, but there are attacks that the people are complaining with, that at night there are attacks - he tell us about the death squad and also the detectives and the taxi ...
... from his area joined some sort of self-defence units and engaged in training with firearms and other weapons. They were involved in a number of attacks and incidents of political violence against neighbouring areas that were prevalent at the time. Some of them returned to the forests around ...
... lodged with the Botswana police and the Botswana Government about their activities.  This did not render any positive results in minimising the attacks and allegedly left the applicants with no option other than to launch attacks across the ...
During this period there were numerous armed attacks on bank vehicles, armoured vehicles, in which the criminal element was clearly discernible. These were organised attacks. During this time guards were disarmed, without killing them, and cash removed from the vehicles. During this time we ...
CHAIRPERSON: We have to try not to attack each other, launch scathing attacks on each other. Tell us about what happened to you, how and things related to your statement, what was written in your statement so that whatever other allegations are made about other people that they would be able to ...
... There were two ways of thinking, one was that we should pretend that he was abroad, somewhere overseas, so that Lennox Sebe could stop with these attacks or his purported attacks on ...
So indeed it is submitted that in relation to each of the attacks and murders and assaults outlined in the six events under discussion, it is correct to hold and I submit proper to hold that there were attacks on people perceived and held in the bona fide belief of my clients to be opponents of ...
CHAIRPERSON: So there were then attacks and counterattacks with the main role-players being Msomi on the one side and Kwela on the other?
... The killing of children were considered justified in cross-border raids, and by the ANC with reference to the Church Street bombings and other attacks, also reflected in the ANC's second statement to the TRC, where the deaths of women and children are documented. Reference should ...
attacks on policemen's houses and your general involvement in politics".
David Ntombela was accompanied by a certain number of men. Do you perhaps know these men, these Inkatha members who always accompanied him to these attacks? --- I think you are speaking with regard to the 1987 ...
MR MAYISELA: Insofar as attacks were concerned I was not involved but we experienced a lot of problems at the cemetery because these comrades, the SDUs that is, used to shout slogans and a funeral would proceed and after that the Stability Unit would start shooting, starting with the teargas and ...
... student bodies in the trade unions, in township civics whose protest campaigns were redefined anti-apartheid politics. The armed propaganda of MK attacks would serve as a secondary means to deepen mass ...
MR MAPOMA: And in all these attacks that you waged, you have never attacked any National Party Government oriented property, is that not the case?
Here again, the two attacks were directed at the South African Defence Force. The acts were immediately directed at State authority and were in line with the political objective pursued by the applicant. However, the application for amnesty in respect of these two acts is
MR HATTINGH: Did you ever receive information that persons at her club, there were persons involved who on their own were involved with attacks on police officers?
... attack and the killing of Mduduzi. Applicant urged the members to fight back and attack with the same precision that the opponent executed their attacks. Applicant's opinion was that as it appeared that their opponents were attempting to finish them off, the best form of defence was to attack ...
... unbanned ANC and SACP in Tladi squatter camp in Soweto. He describes a situation where the camp's occupants became the targets of increasing attacks on them by residents of the neighbouring IFP aligned ...
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