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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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 DE BEER: Or could it have been that it was against any attacks from any MK units crossing the border?
MR SITHOLE: The situation was very serious in the area, people were killed and there was ongoing conflict between ANC and IFP supporters. They would launch counter-attacks against one another. As such quite often people could not even sleep at night.
... be really in furtherance of that ongoing conflict with the opposing forces, because it seems as if all of this was aimed at somehow eliminating the attacks, that were coming from the opposing ...
... received a request from the SDU at Inanda in KwaZulu Natal to send members from Phola Park to Inanda to protect the ANC and the community from attacks by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) ...
MR VISSER: One of the attacks which specifically was directed by the ANC/SACP alliance was to place the government in a bad light, specifically internationally?
... in political violence after the unbanning of the organisations as the parties now started arguing with each other about who will now take over, attacks on the police had drastically increased. We know that the Panel of this Committee has already investigated the murder of the house that had ...
MR MASEKO: The reason was that we had political differences. For instance when we held meetings, they would come attack us, shoot at us and our meeting would be disrupted. In that way attacks then started taking place between the two organisations.
You testified further that with specific relation to the bomb attacks you received instructions from Ackerman, is that correct?
MR BERGER: Before the meeting a week before the attack were there meetings before that at which attacks were discussed?
We briefly examine the question of the heart attack.  Dr Naidoo emphasised that the occurrence of hear attacks in African females, even overweight an under the sort of stress likely to be caused by the situation Khubeka found herself in, would be extremely rare.  This makes the likelihood ...
... telephone calls from newspapers from here to London and New York about how I was handling these cases and I was also having to reply by these attacks on me by Howard Varney. Now that made for a very difficult relationship, and I must say I find the relationship that normally exist between ...
... Khumalo, Gumede and Mthinyane planned the attack on the deceased. They regarded him as a troublesome member of the ANC playing a role in past attacks on IFP members and testified that he uttered threats to the applicant's mother about killing the ...
... the political leadership of the PAC and the military leadership of APLA. He said that one of the phases of Operation Great Storm was to step up attacks on farmers because the PAC believed that the farming community had participated in the dispossession of the African people and they were ...
... he wanted to kill the deceased inter alia so as to intimidate ANC people into joining the IFP, because the deceased was brave and led assaults and attacks on IFP supporters, and also because the deceased had told him he had made a vow to kill him, him being the applicant, and he was scared of ...
MR STEENKAMP: Would you agree with me if I suggest to you that the information that we received from a few sworn statements that is before the Committee, is that the actions of the applicants were basically revenge attacks on both the deceased, do you agree with that?
... Police behaved in those days, that they did not come to the assistance of people like yourself, and very often they assisted and took part in the attacks on people who held the views that you and your husband did. And by doing that they made a mockery of their uniform and of their ...
... is described as the period of ungovernability, where the homeland system had to be attacked in such a way that it couldn't work and that there were attacks on people who supported the homeland ...
would have been a specific reason, because the allegation would have been that these buildings would have been used by the terrorists groups to plan attacks in South Africa and then there would have been a proper analysis by the Trevats or Stratcom units and then the instruction would have been ...
MR MTHWANA: We countered attacks from the A Team as well as from the Boers who would be in the company of the A Team.
properly or successfully. That is one of the things which made them to take this decision of mounting these operations. These operations being the attacks soft civilian targets, white ...
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