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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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... a good prospect of getting talks off the ground. But Mr Chairperson, in the early morning of 19 May 1986 the South African security forces launched attacks on Harare, Lusaka and Gaberone. Each was a Commonwealth capital which the EPG had recently visited in the course of their search for a South ...
... Hartle, if I can just come in here. Just on this issue, I see that you mention at page 3 a number of incidents of terrorism. It is actually bomb attacks that you refer to which occurred at Constantia Centre, Municipal offices and the law courts. Was anyone of these three gentlemen involved in ...
MR KAHANOVITZ: But Mr van Zyl, this isn't poison, this is a sophisticated operation involving the manufacture of tablets that will cause heart attacks in someone that has pre-existing heart problems, correct?
MR SIBISI: What I knew is that Lombo, he was a warlord on the Inkatha side and most of the attacks where families were killed and properties burnt, Lombo was also in front of such attack.
are concerned, he was the person who came in there, he carried out these activities and he was in the forefront, he was actually the leader of these ...
MR MATJELE: I understand Mr Chairman. So sir, you moved away from Margate because you were afraid and running away from the IFP's attacks and act which according to you, was wrong?
to launch an attack on whites in the bar at the East London Railway Station;  to attack whites at the High Gate Hotel in East London.  All these attacks were going to be directed at whites in accordance with what the Applicants say was the policy of APLA.  The orders were issued to the ...
CHAIRPERSON: Your other information may relate to other attacks, or whatever, but this particular attack on the 14th of June, you are saying, as I understand it, that you are unaware of any deaths that occurred as a result of information that you passed on in relation to this attack?
... however, at various times, used either his pistol, AK47 or the R4 rifle, amongst other weapons, wither offensively in an effort to prevent further attacks on the members of his community, or defensively when under attack. His opponents were always either members and/or supporters of the IFP ...
MR LEVINE: Were any of these attacks to your knowledge carried out by young cadres who were members of the ANC in Maputo?
group or fraction to prove a point, by launching such attacks.
      The applicant testified that according to information he received, Selby Mavuso was kidnapped during the attacks by the South African Defence Force ("SADF") at Matola in Mozambique.  He was kept prisoner at Voortrekkerhoogte for a while and then handed to the Security Police.  He was ...
MR SIBEKO: Now you stated that you also participated in the acts of violence, would you tell us if possible, exactly where and when were you actively involved in the attacks or in the defence, as you might wish to call it?
... were perceived to be IFP members. It was the stated objective of the first applicant to kill IFP members that day in retaliation for the alleged attacks committed against members of his organisation allegedly by the IFP ...
At night when there would be attacks they would attack indiscriminately and they would kill at random just like that and in the morning we will discover dead bodies because of that.
MR MWELI: Ndo was wanted by IFP members because he was one person who was involved with IFP attacks, too many of them.
... routes during 1986 and 1987. Weapons and explosives were stored in Botswana and brought into the country from there, where it was used for terror attacks. Examples of this is the fact that Robert McBride and Gordon Webster had used explosives which they had received from Botswana. I refer ...
MR SIBEKO: Were you involved in any incident of violence where attacks were launched between the members of the Self Defence Unit and/or the IFP members?
or abroad, they necessarily had to be eliminated to prevent the destabilisation of the country and as people by way of deeds of terror, such as bomb attacks on Security Forces as well as soft ...
... be that you never received training in Sterkspruit like you've said, that you and your co-applicant were merely coincidentally involved in these attacks on the police and that you took part in the theft of the vehicles and you did this for financial gain and furthermore, that your part in the ...
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