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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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MR SIBEKO: You only patrolled the area, no attacks were made or else whilst you were patrolling no shots were fired, nobody was caught and killed whilst you were patrolling, nothing happened, you just patrolled. Is that what you are saying?
MR LAX: And you were asked by Ms Thabete about what other operations you were involved in and and from what I can see you were only involved in two other operations and both of them failed. Were you ever personally involved in any of the indiscriminate shootings and attacks?
... about through direct evidence and also through cross-examination, all three applicants have fully disclosed the relevant facts, material to the two attacks. I further wish to go on to say that from the very evidence that was adduced today in this hearing, it became very clear that no personal ...
MR NTSEBEZA: Is it one of the people who escaped the attacks when people were killed in Lesotho in 1982 in the
ADV LAMEY: And there was questions about attacks on police houses?
MR MSANI: I will use Zulu. Revenge attacks were against the policy of the ANC and the UDF.
as the enemy by the township residents. In 1991 the Self Defence Unit was formed in Kathlehong Township. It was to patrol the township and prevent attacks by the enemy. Membership of the SDU was not limited to the supporters of the ANC nut was open to all parties but the IFP. Hence the members ...
MR KUNY: There was two attempts on Leratodi Ikaneng, an alleged, one instance he was shot and another instance his throat was cut. Do you have knowledge, hear-say or otherwise of these attacks on him?
... the door closed. She saw that an object approximately 6 inches long was in Mr de Bruin’s hands. She also stated that she was aware of petrol bomb attacks on houses and shops in the area. ...
The general policy was to drive white people from land because it did not belong to them.  The occupants of land were legitimate targets.  These attacks would also be used as springboards for the struggle.  In doing this, APLA was divided into a repossession unit and a combat unit.  The ...
Questioned about his own motive the Applicant replied that he wanted to stop attacks and the murder of farmers and aged people. He believed that the murders were committed by political activists and that were motivated by what was said by political leaders and slogans that they sang and that it ...
he wanted to kill the deceased inter alia, so as to intimidate ANC people into joining the IFP, because the deceased was brave and lead assaults and attacks on IFP supporters, because the deceased had told him he had made a vow to kill him (the applicant) and he was scared of ...
also attacks on the houses of Councillor Thiba and a Security Policemen. On June 16 a commemoration service was held in the Huhudi Community Hall. After the service, while the crowd was making its way home a Community Councillor, Steven Mathloko, allegedly drives his bakkie into this crowd, badly ...
He was a member of the local Self-Defence Unit (SDU) at Thokoza and was issued a firearm to help protect the residents from political attacks raging in the area during 1994.
we gathered and even though we had planned to go and attack another target, this one target is more important. Honestly, he did escape from comrade attacks before, that is the reason why we decided to drop the other ...
MR PRINSLOO: Were any of them political, the attacks on your house?
MR PANDAY: Now Mr Kweyama, would you therefore state that your sole motive for having robbed this gun shop was purely to obtain weapons for the protection from the attacks that were being launched against the community, specifically the ANC community?
... I left matric, I cannot stay out of a night-club. I have been stabbed, I have stabbed people. I have ended up in hospital after assaults on me, attacks that you cannot believe. My whole body full of stitches, and in the process, I have also injured people in a violent way, ...
DR RANDERA: So were there also attacks on houses of councillors and policemen at the time, and police women? I know it is a long time ago, but you can take your time.
MR BOOYENS: So if one looks at attacks - people who were so-called enemies of the then government who were killed and there are a large number of them - I’m not saying that you were involved in all of them, not at all, but was there ever anyone else who would have been interested in eliminating ...
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