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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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 ...
... were to be members, just in case they train people who were not members, who would receive the training and would thereafter go and carry out attacks ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
would say, at the time when we identified the old age home as a target, it happened that around South Africa, especially in Johannesburg, there were attacks in trains, there were attacks in Boipatong, Sebokeng, around Sebokeng. Black people were killed like flies. Then the understanding of Apla ...
... the three targets with Macebo, who was the unit driver Siphiwo Mqweso who has already been referred to. The arms and ammunition used in all three attacks were supplied to them by members of the then PAC Regional Executive Committee, namely Theo Mabusela, Michael Siyolo and Richard Madala. ...
... the firearms taken from hostel dwellers, back to the hostel. The other role that he had, or which he told me and which I believed, is that the attacks, he contributed in carrying out attacks against the community together with the hostel ...
MR VAN DER MERWE: It was very high priority for us. There were many terrorist attacks, there were ANC and PAC cadres which committed acts of sabotage. Others had missions to be politically active, to influence the masses, to encourage them to resist the government and for that reason it was our ...
... period.  They disputed the version of Coetzee and the other white officers that the information furnished by Ms Simelane led to the false flag attacks on the electrical power stations or was instrumental in the arrest of a number of persons linked to MK.  Despite the sustained assaults ...
VAN RENSBURG: Okay now let's turn to the incidents that took place on the 25th to the 28th of February of that year, and I specifically refer to the attacks that were launched at the house of the deceased's brother, Mr Petrus Mahvunga and I want to ask you, were you part and parcel of those ...
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?
... mainly patrols of the military as well as the police, as well as farmers connected to the Security network. Where possible, they had to avoid also attacks on ordinary farmers and ordinary workers on the farms, although that was going to be difficult, but these were the guidelines that we gave ...
... to reply to the question, where there were a lot of bombings and towards the end of 1998/beginning of '89, the tendency had changed somewhat to attacks on people with firearms and with handgrenades. There were less bombings. In fact, we heard that evidence already at the last hearing where ...
... level for the ordinary policeman such as yourself and you finish on page 11 where you state that in paragraph 21, where you refer to numerous bomb attacks which took place all over the country during which injury and damage to property took place. You say in paragraph 21 that weapons and ...
MR SALIE: Your Honour, my job as the Commander of the Detachment was to plan co-ordinated attacks. The blast at the Bontheuwel Rent Office happened simultaneously with two other blasts in the Peninsula that night and it was aimed at showing opposition to the Municipal elections, it was aimed at ...
were two applications pertaining to bombings of a general nature. The one concerned petrol bombings and the other one concerned other kinds of bomb attacks. That was contained in Schedule 17, you will recall we dealt with that right at the beginning. In respect of Schedule 17, you will see that ...
ATTACKS ON JOE SENTI AND JOHANNES DIDRIK PRETORIUS
MS MTANGA: Can you give us some information on the hostel dwellers that you'd been referring to who had been attacking your community, as to which hostel dwellers were these? Where were these hostels found in Diepkloof, and how were these attacks carried out?
MS COLLETT: Now as a headman under this political umbrella, did you suffer any losses or attacks at the hands of anybody?
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