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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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... lodged with the Botswana police and the Botswana Government about their activities.  This did not render any positive results in minimising the attacks and allegedly left the applicants with no option other than to launch attacks across the ...
... the deceased had gone to fetch other ANC supporters to attack him. He believed that the deceased was involved in the various acts of arson and attacks on ADM supporters. As far as he was concerned he was also involved in the murder of Xabendlini. The applicant was questioned at length as ...
... from his area joined some sort of self-defence units and engaged in training with firearms and other weapons. They were involved in a number of attacks and incidents of political violence against neighbouring areas that were prevalent at the time. Some of them returned to the forests around ...
The NP regime failed to repudiate or reject any Security Force attacks on prominent ANC leaders in exile creating clearly the impression of tacit approval for those attacks.
MR VAN DER MERWE: Well let me put it this way. You expected attacks on that facility earlier already, am I correct to say that?
... to be directly linked to a political struggle, but there are others and the majority of them are there. You will see in this list that there were attacks on policemen, there were attacks on civilian population, there were murders, attempted murders, there were robberies which necessary ...
The second applicant also pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and attempted attacks on Rosebank Police Station and ...(indistinct) Commando Headquarters.
MR VAN DER MERWE: It was very high priority for us. There were many terrorist attacks, there were ANC and PAC cadres which committed acts of sabotage. Others had missions to be politically active, to influence the masses, to encourage them to resist the government and for that reason it was our ...
... at one go, in other words, before the 28th of January 1989, then come into the country - and as we go through your statement we'll see the various attacks that you carried out, or did you go back to Zimbabwe or communicate with Mr Saloojee between ...
... shooting or there after. He never came across an incident where the IFP attacked children and he knew that members of the ANC were not to direct attacks on children. His intention was to destroy Makeke, the driver of the ...
These frequent and ongoing attacks understandably led to the leadership of COSATU being sensitive to and worried about further attacks.
VAN RENSBURG: Okay now let's turn to the incidents that took place on the 25th to the 28th of February of that year, and I specifically refer to the attacks that were launched at the house of the deceased's brother, Mr Petrus Mahvunga and I want to ask you, were you part and parcel of those ...
"... they arrived on the evening of the 24th and we discovered that or there was a rumour that they had come to launch some revenge attacks for Martin's death on the 25th of December."
... leader and businessperson who had previously lived in their area but who had left when he joined Inkatha. It was alleged that the deceased had led attacks on their community by Inkatha supporters and that such attackers were often accompanied and assisted by KwaZulu police. It was alleged that ...
... the firearms taken from hostel dwellers, back to the hostel. The other role that he had, or which he told me and which I believed, is that the attacks, he contributed in carrying out attacks against the community together with the hostel ...
would say, at the time when we identified the old age home as a target, it happened that around South Africa, especially in Johannesburg, there were attacks in trains, there were attacks in Boipatong, Sebokeng, around Sebokeng. Black people were killed like flies. Then the understanding of Apla ...
... whether it was written or typed, which allegedly had been written by Ferndale or signed by Ferndale in which he admits his partipance in bomb attacks, or planned attacks, something to that affect. But it dealt with acts of ...
During this period there were numerous armed attacks on bank vehicles, armoured vehicles, in which the criminal element was clearly discernible. These were organised attacks. During this time guards were disarmed, without killing them, and cash removed from the vehicles. During this time we ...
b. the attacks on the Zenzele informal settlement during August 1993 is GRANTED.
MR NDLOVU: These that I've mentioned were direct hits, but he was behind the attacks that were carried out in the township because he was the one person who was able to move around the township. He was the person central to IFP attacks on the township.
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