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Wit Wolwe

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(Afrikaans: 'White Wolves') an ultra-right terrorist group

... (paramilitary wing), the Boere Weerstandsbeweging (BWB) and its own armed wing, the Boere Republikeinse Leër (BRL), the Orde Boerevolk (OB), the Wit Wolwe (WW), the Wit Bevrydingsleër, Magsaksie Afrikaner Nasionalisme, the Pretoria Boerekommando, Boere Vryheidsbeweging (BVB) and the Wit ...
... is frequently difficult to determine. A security policeman applied for amnesty in relation to a number of acts carried out allegedly by the Wit Wolwe in mid-1990 – including death threats made to a Pretoria NP councillor after the city council decided to open facilities to all, and the ...
... 63. He also admitted to arson, damage to property, intimidation and conspiracy during the early 1990s, and carrying out actions in the name of the Wit Wolwe (‘White Wolves’) in Pretoria and Verwoerdburg. These actions targeted white activists such as members of the End Conscription Campaign ...
Between 1982 and 1985 various AWB members, including Terre’Blanche, were charged with illegal possession of weapons and explosives. 305 In 1988, Wit Wolwe member Barend Strydom massacred seven people in Pretoria in Church Square. Strydom initially applied for amnesty for this incident, but ...
... Mr Molefi Theletsane [KZN/PAM/014/FS], who was injured when he jumped off the bakkie to escape. A PAC member was shot by an unknown member of the Wit Wolwe while travelling near Welkom. 329 An AWB member shot and killed Mr Norman Linda [JB0141/03VT] in Boipatong during a march to the police ...
... on individuals were becoming more and more frequent. With very few exceptions, the targets of these attacks were black persons. Individuals like Wit Wolwe member Bare n d Strydom, who killed eight people and injured sixteen when he opened fire on people in a busy Pretoria street in 1988, ...
... people 15. The right wing carried out a number of racist attacks82. One of the worst of these was carried out by Mr Barend Strydom, a member of the Wit Wolwe (‘White Wolves’). The attack was carried out indiscriminately against black people, eight of whom were killed. Strydom filed an amnesty ...
 
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