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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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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 ...
... 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 ...
MR ZUMA: They were very wild and they were doing mock attack on the security that was deployed in front of Shell House at the time and they would launch mock attacks on the security and they would tear placards for elections that were in front of Shell House.
MR SHANGE: No, we didn't do any attacks. Master Shange gave us the guns to protect ourselves, whenever we were attacked to attack back.
MR MADLALA: When we attacked, we directed the attacks to the IFP members, but we didn't have a list of names as to who, but we were attacking IFP members and we knew very well that there wasn't a single person who wasn't IFP.
... attack at KTC they said that they were going to destroy all the ANC bases and that gave me the impression that this was planned in Pretoria and the attacks there were actually a mistake, they were planned by the National Party ...
... was to send a message to those who wanted to kill ANC members that this would not be tolerated. Subsequent to this incident there were no further attacks on members of the ANC at ...
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.
MR VISSER: All right. Paragraph (ix). It is short, let me translate it for you. In that paragraph you have stated that you have knowledge of attacks on the motor vehicles of Jani Mohapi and Elia Mohapi.
... count. I took his pulse by means of taking it for ten seconds and multiplying that with six. I gave him four of my tablets which I used for panic attacks or if I felt that I was going to have a panic attack. The tablets went by the name of Lexotan(?). They were very strong tablets. I gave ...
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.
We have, I saw a copy of that later, and there is a lot more detail to the attacks that she made. I found myself seeing all sorts of journalists about this, and I then went to see Beyers Naude to find out whether the Crisis Team had made any further progress. We were becoming extremely frustrated.
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 ...
... 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 ...
MR METHULA: We had to live under great fear, adults as well as children, because there were attacks that were launched on residents.
MR DU PREEZ: I believed to obtain information that the government or the former government could place in a position that they could still govern or they could still protect the interest of the people who were usually their targets of attacks, to help them and protect them.
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 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?
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?
... Mr Chairman. Mosa Dalton Msimango, his application Mr Chairman, covers his activities as the Commander, issuing instructions which resulted in the attacks and deaths or injuries or acts of malicious injury to property or arson that emanated from his instructions. He also indicated his actual ...
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