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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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some people were attacked with pangas and assegais, as well as traditional weapons. And the community tried to get together in order to prevent the attacks, but it was very difficult because we were not armed and we were fighting against people who were armed with traditional weapons as well as ...
... affecting taxis in the area in which a number of ANC members were targeted and killed. These incidents were regarded as politically motivated attacks on the ANC and its members by anti-ANC elements within the taxi industry. The ANC and SDU leadership decided that this calls for retaliation ...
The Committee considered this argument but is of the view that it cannot take an armchair view of the incidents. The shooting occurred before the attacks reached Mr. Khuzwayo's kraal. The applicant fired a random shot, panicked and ran away. He had nevertheless made himself part of a group ...
MR MALAN: And you brought in order to make it available to people to, in terms of police, continue attacks?
... that according to the evidence of the applicants targets for attack were not chosen at random and indiscriminately. They included systematic attacks against the army and the police, care being taken to cause as little injury to civilians as ...
... of July. But on that day that your husband was killed, thirteen other people were killed and sixteen were injured, two seriously. Again in random attacks, involved Sebokeng and Everton. Kitiwe Kheswa of course is dead and therefore cannot tell us anything about the circumstances in which so ...
my wife is ... it’s taken twenty years out of our lives, this issue. It was not funny at all and even now he’s got a lot of chances of having heart attacks, strokes and all this. There’s a lot to take into consideration and the medical side is a terrible issue because he’s now suffering with all ...
MR VISSER: And then Col de Kock in his criminal trial had mentioned that members of the CCB were also there executing attacks on members in Lesotho, did you know anything of this?
... Pretoria that were perpetrated by third force elements forced the need to ensure the protection of the communities or else to make sure that those attacks do not happen again and we were the only ones, the soldiers of uMkhonto weSizwe who could or rather who were told to play the role of ...
... still be heard, to please not consider this in isolation, but also to bear in mind that some of our previous enemies and operators also launched attacks on their own initiatives. Unfortunately it was an unconventional struggle and in such a struggle there isn't always control right down to ...
... in front of Shell House and every time they were opposite the entrance of Shell House they would stop for a bit and do some dances and do mock attacks, so they would run forward and just stop before they could put their foot on the platform, on the pavement of where Shell House starts and ...
... into Angola at that time, the combating of terrorism by the South African Police in the then South West, now Namibia, since already 1962, the then attacks, terror, acts of terror of 1966, particularly during the month of November at the border gate when two MK members of the ANC were arrested ...
MR WASSERMAN: The amount of MK activities in Natal and the expose of MK's activities in Natal in the form of bomb attacks, assassinations on SAP members and personnel and people that were not sympathetic to the ANC, and members of the SAP had a profound effect on me.
MR PRINSLOO: At that stage, was there a rather high or low intensity of attacks by the ANC/SACP alliance on the Republic?
... was not assisted by a member of MK and also that it had no structure or hierarchy. The SDU, they state, was formed to protect their community from attacks from supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP). Their SDU had a shortage of firearms and they, the Applicants, decided to take it ...
REV CHIKANE: You are starting from the premise here that there was conflict in the country and there were attacks on the Mandela house prior to that. Hand grenades and other issues and exception. And then you have a group of young people who then come and congregate around Mrs Mandela and they ...
During November 1991 Shoba instructed the applicants to carry out attacks on farmers in the vicinity of Botshabelo, Tweespruit and Verkeerdevlei. He supplied them with a .38 special revolver for this purpose.
solve the one problem but it has just occurred to us that your remarks raise other issues as well because there are many, many cases of bombings and attacks on property, where no doubt there will be allegations made that those people at least believed that their actions were accepted by ...
... And furthermore, you said when violence started you were not affected and when these people were from wherever they were, be it for purposes of attacks or whatever, you started getting affected, which people are you talking about here, is it part of the community that you referred to or from ...
MR DU PLESSIS: Well Mr Chairman my exhibit is marked wrongly. So I was enquiring exactly which is the right exhibit. I would request Mr Bizos to leave personal attacks out of this.
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