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Bophuthatswana invasion

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On 11 March 1994 hundreds of AWB members drove into Bophuthatswana following a request for assistance from Chief Mangope to help restore control in the homeland in the face of a strike by civil servants demanding that the Mangope government introduce political reforms and adjust to the changing political circumstances in South Africa. Under the leadership of AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche, AWB members randomly attacked Mafikeng residents, killing 42 people. Three AWB members were shot dead by members of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force.

Bophuthatswana 760 In Bophuthatswana, workers, youth and community activists demanded Chief Minister Mangope’s resignation and the reincorporation of Bophuthatswana into South Africa. The Bophuthatswana government reacted with defiance. Mangope asserted that “Bophuthatswana will be ...
... police mingling with the rightwingers. Sixty-six right-wingers were arrested in connection with the invasion of the World Trade Centre. 372 The Bophuthatswana administration had been one of the founding members of COSAG (Concerned South Africans Group) and was later part of the Freedom ...
... occupation by members of the AWB and other right-wing groups of the World Trade Centre at Kempton Park233 and the invasion by members of the AWB of Bophuthatswana in support of the homeland administration in 1994234 In the first incident, Eugene Te r re’Blanche led a crowd of up to 3000 ...
1972 Black police are trained in anti-‘terrorist’ techniques by the SAP and deployed in Namibia. Bophuthatswana, Ciskei and Lebowa are granted self-government status. Conscription is extended from nine to twelve months, followed by a nineteen-day annual call-up for five years. The Black ...
... included targeted killings, indiscriminate attacks on individuals, the bombing of strategic targets/sabotage and violations associated with the Bophuthatswana invasion 310 Two AWB members from Potgietersrus, Mr Jan Harm Christiaan Roos [AM0801/96] and Mr AJ Vermaak [AMAM0818/96], killed a ...
... e On 12 June, Pik Botha told Parliament that there had been no transgressions of the non-aggression and bilateral agreements South Africa had with Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei, and that similar agreements with Transkei had been terminated by Transkei on May 10, 1978; f On 13 June, ...
 
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