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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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2. To destroy the military leader of Umkhonto weSizwe who by his own acknowledgement was responsible for the cold-blooded murders of elderly Whites, women and children and attacks on them and on our Security Force personnel.
MS SEROKE: In your statement you say that at that time, the White people were indiscriminately attacking Blacks in Louis Trichardt do you think perhaps your brother was also a victim of those attacks?
MR KADES: You were responding to attacks made on yourself by the BBC, by in turn attacking a priest of the Methodist church in Soweto, is that what you are telling us?
the Germans and the Americans to the Japanese. It wasn't necessarily always against military targets or strategic key points. In the same way, the attacks of the ANC in the past were not directed only against military staff, or the Security Forces. I refer here to the Church Street bomb, or the ...
... It seems that the weapons were used in the murders and attempted murders. On the meagre information before the Committee it seems as if the attacks were directed against ordinary civilians. There is however no full disclosure in this regard and the essential particulars required were not ...
MR LOTZ: If I can put it - it was very close to anarchy and total chaos, petrol bombs, the burning of vehicles, attacks on policemen and their houses and these happened on a daily basis.
... activists took control of the rural areas, civic members resigned because of intimidation, police officers were forced to leave areas, there were attacks on police patrols, the existing structures were replaced with alternative structures, school boycotts were the order of the day, councillors ...
It is my submission that attacks similar to these facilitated what used to be known as the Codesa negotiations. It is such
MR RAMASITSI: We were afraid that he was going to burn our kraals as he was renown for his aggressive attacks. So from there we waited for him until we realised that he's not coming, then in the morning we conveyed to our different places. So when we were at our place, they found that the youth, ...
MS MAKHUBELE: Attacks?
MR VISSER: You deal with attacks with regard to Botswana, on page 196 and 198, is that correct?
... movement or whatever it may have been, which was generally known. Indeed at that stage it was so well known that they had already launched various attacks and that much publicity was linked to the organisation, much publicity was also given on television for the video which has been submitted. ...
CHAIRPERSON: Were these attacks all in 1993?
MR LAX: So you weren't involved in any other attacks on any other people on defending yourself and your community against any other people, in all the time from 1985 till 1990 and going on until you were arrested? Are you seriously telling us that?
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Dlamini that the deceased has been supplying arms to ANC supporters at Caluza one of the adjoining areas and that such arms were being used in attacks on their area. It was decided that Ndlovu would confirm the identity and whereabouts of the deceased. Thereafter Ndlovu and Thabani were ...
MR MSANI: I will use Zulu. Revenge attacks were against the policy of the ANC and the UDF.
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.
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