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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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... the children trouble me so much. Each time, you know, when I wake up even at night I think about them, and I feel so troubled. You know, this attacks me, this feeling keeps attacking me, and it leaves me so ...
DR RAMASHALA: Would you also say that it was in the interest of the security forces for these attacks to take place?
of sorts in any event, just to get at him as a person, then besides that, Captain Hechter's testimony was quite clear that whether these threatening attacks on Police were ultimately stopped or not by the use of this explosion, the general thrust of this type of action was in any event aimed at ...
MR VLOK: Mr Chairperson, when I became a member of the AWB, there were various acts of terror across the country and attacks were launched at us as Afrikaners and the government of the day and I reconciled myself with the principles of the AWB and I wanted to be trained at that stage because at ...
MR STEENKAMP: Did you lodge any attacks as far as you know, against any Inkatha Freedom Party structures or people or councillors, as far as you know?
... of which I have given you in the history which we spoke about yesterday. The ANC and the SACP offices in London were seen as the main source where attacks against the Republic were planned and ...
MR HATTINGH: And briefly what happened there was that people who were suspected of being involved in attacks on Policemen, and homes of Policemen, would be provided with handgrenades of which the delay mechanisms had been removed so that as soon as the pin had been removed, the handgrenade would ...
MS LOONAT: What did you do about these attacks?
MR NGEMA: I'm referring to instances such as attacks that were suffered by the community. I was responsible for such things.
... reconnaissance of members of the SAP in Mamelodi as well as persons who had been suspected of possibly being informers with the objective to launch attacks on such persons as I have already ...
MR LAMEY: And then you say in each of the incidents the attacks were carried out on identified houses, and according to what you understood they were all the homes of activists, is that correct?
"Apparently he had once again become involved in illegalities regarding attacks on police".
MR NGUBANE: Now is it correct that attacks at Mopela occurred on more than one occasion?
MR MDLETSHE: The attacks would not happen in the open, if say for instance, they met an IFP member, they could assault them just for the sake that they were IFP members. They would call us names like clover and so forth.
JUDGE DE JAGER: Could you kindly explain, we see this family before us now, were any other people involved with them in the attacks lodged against the ANC, or were they the only people attacking the ANC? In that area.
MR LEBEA: The Task Force is part of APLA. It was established to protect the community against the attacks. As you know very well that the previous regime was attacking the Africans, it was basically to protect the community and to assist APLA with ammunition.
MR MONONI: We were going to use the firearms to defend the community against attacks by Inkatha and vigilantes and other people who were troubling the community.
This is not what they did all the time Mr Chairman, they were essentially an intelligence and surveillance unit, but in the evenings and on an ad hoc occasion they did participate in these so-called right-wing attacks as well.
In our view all the attacks took place within the political atmosphere that existed in South Africa at the time and that the Applicants have disclosed all the necessary facts related to these attacks.
wider objective was to neutralise a political opponent by arresting or abducting him so that he would not be in a position to command or execute attacks against the then ...
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