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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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... who were expected to participate in the elections on the voting day stayed away. The elections were a complete failure. In addition to the attacks their unit had distributed pamphlets in the township and urged people not to ...
... agents that had infiltrated the military structures of the African National Congress ("ANC") in exile. It was necessary to launch such staged attacks in order to maintain the front of these agents who constituted an important source of intelligence to the Security Police. The attack in ...
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?
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 ...
... Although studies of political violence do not highlight men's gender experience of their torture, studies or ordinary prisoners reveal systematic attacks on their masculinity. An interesting hypothesis suggests that sexual torture of men aims to induce sexual perversity and to abolish ...
word camping in this context refers to the practice of calling all the young men in an area together for the purposes of defending the area from attacks by opposing group/s.)  In his testimony, Mbhele said he thought he was going to abduct a prominent ANC member.  When questioned about ...
MR BERGER: According to your knowledge the purpose of the attack and the purpose of the information for which you supplied information, was to destroy the capacity of MK in Gaberone to launch attacks against South Africa.
was a member of the command group which gave the instruction for the attack on the two transit houses and that there was a loss of life during these attacks and therefore he is applying for ...
the area. His home and garage had been attacked and destroyed and that he had lost family members in violence. He saw the above vehicle during the attacks on his premises and thus believed that Sithole, who he knew as a friend of his uncle, was involved in the violence. ...
It emerged from the evidence  that the Applicant not only discussed the planning of attacks on military targets, he provided or arranged for the provision of the explosives and detonators used in the construction of car bombs.  Unfortunately, no evidence was led before us as to what the ...
... behind the theft was to arm farmers on the eastern border of the then Orange Free State in order to enable them to protect themselves from attacks by members of the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army who were operating from Lesotho. The applicants state that it was necessary for them to ...
MS NHLAYISI: Were you actively involved in meetings wherein attacks and defence actions were being planned?
attack in 1981 at Voortrekkerhoogte, the limpet mine attack on the Impala electrical sub-station that the ANC accepted responsibility for both these attacks. You have referred to Seshaba October 1991, that Visser and Nel handled these dossiers, that a certain Philemon Molefe was arrested in ...
CHAIRPERSON: And you also in the same application say it was to prevent - the political objective behind this attack, was to prevent attacks on yourself because seven times the members of the ANC attacked you, they even attacked your wife, is that correct?
And I am sure this commission and the audience would like to share your experience. Would you take us through? --- Yes, should I start with the circumstances of the actual attacks? All right.
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 ...
... it was not said in so many words what is it that has to be done to the deceased. The act of attack those days would incorporate murder because the attacks were vicious. People were killed, people were injured and it all depended much really on the perservance of the victim of that point in ...
... he organised people to take part in these types of things, and enforced it. And then also that Morudi previously had been involved in petrol bomb ...
MR KOOPEDI: Okay. Now on the attacks or the burning of houses, which unit was involved? Was it this unit, the one that was involved in the killing of this person, or were you now acting with different units?
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