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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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... neither from the next of kin of Mr Lingene, or from the Special Investigation Unit of the AG in Transvaal. At the time I was informed that the attacks in this specific area were investigated by a specific investigation team. We contacted the specific investigation team and we couldn't get ...
MR VISSER: And I'm asking you would it be true to say that that government was opposed to ANC using Lesotho as a springboard for attacks against South Africa?
The people who were in the bus, the males who were in the bus, were they the specific or actual people who displaced you, who attacked you so that you ran away from your homes? Would you identify them as the people who participated in such attacks?
... were justifiable. Paragraph 5, you refer to the no go areas internally. Paragraph 6 that you saw it as your task to prevent the execution of such attacks and then suddenly in 7 you refer to certain structures that were founded. You're not referring to any cross border operations here, you're ...
"As a result of these explosions we were capable of sending the two Sergeants back to Swaziland. The explosions served to prevent any suspicion surrounding them because they were supposed to have been involved in the attacks. In other words it fortified their credibility ..."
MR VAN RENSBERG: Was it part of APLA's policyat the time, by carrying out these attacks, to persuade or put pressure on thegovernment of the day, to take farms away from the white farmers and give itto the blacks?
MR HATTINGH: Because this is a very serious situation, not so? These were PAC persons who were infiltrating the country in large numbers and establishing stockpiles and they were also responsible for attacks on the public.
MR NIEUWOUDT: In September, 1984, the unrest started in Port Elizabeth, and it had started with attacks and anarchy in the townships. There were no petrol bombs, according to my knowledge, in January 1984.
MR MBELO: The purpose of this infiltration was to actually establish who they were and what were they doing. I had to establish as to whether they were doing all the attacks that were in Crossroads.
... during the time of conflict and political violence at the time. We were not engaged in a conventional war where the sides could be identified and attacks were limited against visible enemies. It was an unconventional war situation as was explained by Gen Steyn in his evidence. During this ...
MR VAN DEN BERG: Thank you Mr Chairperson. The power stations, those attacks, was it before or after or during the time that Ms Simelane was in detention?
MR RICHARD: Thank you. Now, in the documentation alluded to in the various papers and there's the statement, revenge attacks, I presume your answer to the question whether this was a revenge attack or not, is the same as the one as to whether it was retaliatory?
MR PRINSLOO: Very well. But were you aware that there were many differences between ANC and IFP in Piet Retief and that there were attacks? Unfortunately I do not have the documents before me, but I think the incident of Mr Msibi was in 1991, and thereafter several incidents took place, during ...
Here you have information that there is going to be the bleakest Christmas we have known, there are going to be attacks, your Commissioner of Police knows about this, Coetzee said yes, he knew about the threat, he goes on holiday to Port Edward, he is a phone call away and van der Merwe, who is ...
... I also had to flee my home, then go into hiding. Therefore the reason we went to rob the shop was because we needed firearms. Were it not for the attacks we suffered we would have had no reason to do ...
MR PRINSLOO: At that stage, was there a rather high or low intensity of attacks by the ANC/SACP alliance on the Republic?
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.
... 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 ...
While in exile we lived in constant fear of attacks in Maputo, even in East Berlin where we were quite secure, there were a number of threats on our lives. I think I have said enough, I would like my brothers and sisters to make their contribution.
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 ...
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