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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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... was a political turmoil in Port Elizabeth. Houses were burnt down and the police clashed with Cosas. Class boycotts followed and there were bomb attacks on government buildings. Mtimkhulu was actively involved in mobilising the youth and students against the government. According to ...
This resulted in attacks in some cases on certain targets with no directly apparent connection to the apartheid State - see ANC statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, August 1996, page 52 to 53.
"we know we cannot win a conventional war which is what the racist regime wants, that we shall fight them in the kitchen, the factories and in the streets with surprise attacks."
CHAIRPERSON: And if you venture in there, then you expose yourself to attacks?
MR MAZWI: As I said before, that the comrades from Port St Johns told us about their problem. They mentioned something about disturbances and arms and attacks were expected.
... and a comrade, Willy Maditsi, again managed to infiltrate the RSA through Swaziland towards the end of 1989 to prepare underground bases for future attacks on the RSA government. The Applicant, who was born on the farm Uitkyk near Bochum in the Pietersburg district, decided to operate in that ...
The Applicant said that he had obtained his own firearm because of the attacks by the IFP on his area and the need to defend his family. Yet he obtained the firearm and ammunition for it in 1989 and never used it against the IFP. He only used it in the "operations" that formed the gist of the ...
MR ALBERTS: And after the attacks on these houses, did you all go back, where did you go to then?
Now, we were told that these conflicts between the gangsters and the students took the form of open attacks of the gangsters attacking the students.
ADV RHOODE: Didn't any of your friends or their families suffer any harm in the so-called terrorist attacks which were launched at that time?
DR ALLY: I'm trying to understand why it is that you and your family should be subjected to this kind of treatment, to these attacks. Also you say that when you were tortured they kept saying to you, you're going to tell us the truth repeatedly. Now what truth is this that they wanted you to tell ...
They could have blown up the prison, the could have poisoned him, put poison in his soup for example. My instruction was to determine which chemical and biological weapons could be used against him and to protect him against such attacks.
MR LAX: Now, you said that you were aware of the complaints of the residents, you were questioned about the complaints of the residents, about the attacks on them, and you went on to say that you were one of those people who were complaining, do you remember that?
... training in Zimbabwe in 1990. The first operation I was involved in was in 1992, I was involved in three to four other operations and mostly farm attacks. I was involved in the Ficksburg townhouses attack and the affidavit of Oupa Lerato Kgotlhe has been read to me. I understand the contents ...
... to a Mr Nkosi but he deserted it because of violence and it was subsequently occupied by the IFP who used it as their base from where they launched attacks against the community. The late Thabo Sibeko, who was the commander of Tambo/Slovo section at the time, issued an order that the house ...
applicant states that he was arrested immediately after having purchased the firearm and that he purchased it in order to protect his community from attacks by supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party and other organisations who were not in favour of the general elections which were to take place ...
This activity of violent confrontation tool many forms including attacks by members of the oppressed people's against apartheid and so forth.
MR SIBEKO: Now you indicated that as a result of those attacks or the two incidents that you have just referred to, you decided to join the unit, were you at any stage or did you at any stage carry any weapon whatsoever to that effect?
MR SINGH: Same thing, basically, this. With attacks and our targets as well. Is same people.
... in Pretoria where the Peace of Vereeniging was concluded in 1902. On this terrain the Vierkleur was raised as well. As a result of this and other attacks, the applicant on the 17th of September 1990, was arrested and charged with the theft of weapons, sabotage and other ...
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