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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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There is, in my opinion, also not sufficient grounds to find that all the persons killed during the attacks both inside and outside the Macaskill house and at the Meyer house were not either primary targets or killed in the cross-fire.  There is no evidence to suggest that there was any ...
As a result, the African National Congress (ANC) structured a mechanism of defending the membership and the residents in general from attacks by other groupings. It was explained that it was necessary to establish the Self Defence Units (SDU) because the police were not helping to resolve the ...
MR NDLOVU: I also thank you, Sir. Mr Ndlovu, you have quite a history and I think it would be best if you tell us first a little bit abour yourself, your background and what actually led to all of these attacks taking place against you.
Applicant was of the view that the only way of effectively combatting these attacks was by means of cross-border operations of the South African Security Forces.  In preparation for such operations, Applicant arranged with members of the Special Forces of the then South African Army to ...
MR NIEUWOUDT: No, those were attacks in the feud between AZAPO and UDF.
attacks on ANC members."
MR MBHELE: I regarded him as a danger, because he had information on how we camped and would be responsible for attacks on us, I decided that I should eliminate him for that reason.
In our opinion, the owners of the properties in question are victims in relation to the attacks for which amnesty is hereby granted and they are accordingly referred for consideration in terms of the provisions of Section 22 of the Act.
"Kondile has not yet been interrogated in detail regarding attacks in the Cape Province as tentative arrangements were made with the security branch, Port Elizabeth, to do this with their co-operation"
MR NGUBENI: I regard my action as politically motivated, because on my arrival from exile, I assisted the community in combatting attacks from the Third Force, and we discovered that there were vehicles that were used to shoot and kill people when they held funerals and such things. In that ...
were two applications pertaining to bombings of a general nature. The one concerned petrol bombings and the other one concerned other kinds of bomb attacks. That was contained in Schedule 17, you will recall we dealt with that right at the beginning. In respect of Schedule 17, you will see that ...
... to reply to the question, where there were a lot of bombings and towards the end of 1998/beginning of '89, the tendency had changed somewhat to attacks on people with firearms and with handgrenades. There were less bombings. In fact, we heard that evidence already at the last hearing where ...
... political uprising, guerilla and terrorist warfare and which culminated in a full scale, low intensity war and anti-terrorist pre-emptive strikes, attacks and ...
CHAIRPERSON: Yes it is - to the best of my recollection, it's clear that these attacks in paragraph 195 were done by Coetzee and these people.
ADV BOOYENS: It was already declared policy at that stage that there would be attacks on members of the Police or collaborators, people who worked for the government?
... Council of Churches to have Kwamadala Hostel close down because it was believed that Kwamadala Hostel was being used to harbour people who launched attacks on the residents of the Vaal. Do you know about ...
MR DOLO: Yes, I did report reports if there were attacks or whatever.
He tells me he didn't specifically talk about this incident before Justice Harmse, but they generally speaking, denied that they were involved in attacks on people outside the borders of the country, and that would include this incident.
... it's membership in those areas and the residents in general who lived in those areas, these mechanisms were designed to defend those people from attacks by other groupings. It was explained that it was necessary to establish what is now known as self defence units because and in particular ...
... say, "This boy is a known killer, he's been involved in violence, here are all the witnesses", the people who told you that he had been involved in attacks on them, and hand him straight over? You had the witnesses with you, according to your ...
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