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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 State property was also targeted, especially following the announcement that the Group Areas Act was to be repealed and schools opened to all.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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The general policy was to drive white people from land because it did not belong to them.  The occupants of land were legitimate targets.  These attacks would also be used as springboards for the struggle.  In doing this, APLA was divided into a repossession unit and a combat unit.  The ...
he wanted to kill the deceased inter alia, so as to intimidate ANC people into joining the IFP, because the deceased was brave and lead assaults and attacks on IFP supporters, because the deceased had told him he had made a vow to kill him (the applicant) and he was scared of ...
as the enemy by the township residents. In 1991 the Self Defence Unit was formed in Kathlehong Township. It was to patrol the township and prevent attacks by the enemy. Membership of the SDU was not limited to the supporters of the ANC nut was open to all parties but the IFP. Hence the members ...
MR SIBEKO: You only patrolled the area, no attacks were made or else whilst you were patrolling no shots were fired, nobody was caught and killed whilst you were patrolling, nothing happened, you just patrolled. Is that what you are saying?
MR MSANI: I will use Zulu. Revenge attacks were against the policy of the ANC and the UDF.
MR KUNY: There was two attempts on Leratodi Ikaneng, an alleged, one instance he was shot and another instance his throat was cut. Do you have knowledge, hear-say or otherwise of these attacks on him?
... the door closed. She saw that an object approximately 6 inches long was in Mr de Bruin’s hands. She also stated that she was aware of petrol bomb attacks on houses and shops in the area. ...
... you could not have had any other expectation other than that he would have killed him after that. Because what you just told us before about the attacks on the Transkei if it was found out that he had been interrogated, they would not let him go. They would have to kill him and you would know ...
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.
MS VAN DER WALT: You are now talking about information - it occurs to me that you must get the information to stop the attacks. Was that the primary goal of the Security Branch?
the ANC, who may have lost their lives, who may have been maimed as a result of ANC activities whether as result of bombings or landmines or gorilla attacks. I say that not to provide any justification for what the ANC may or may not have done because that is not the responsibility of the ...
MS BURTON: And then immediately afterwards, there were several other attacks and other people died. It was really a terrible time in KTC.
... attack, people will come into the ANC offices, our offices as MK were in the office. When there are incidents where people are reporting about attacks, most of that information was referred to us as MK in the MK office, within the ANC ...
MR LAX: And you were asked by Ms Thabete about what other operations you were involved in and and from what I can see you were only involved in two other operations and both of them failed. Were you ever personally involved in any of the indiscriminate shootings and attacks?
ADV SANDI: Did they take part in the attacks on ANC people?
... to do with NUM. The activities of the victims and their group included harassing political activists within the applicant's group; for example the attacks on the house of Ms Mary-Agness Khunoane who was an active member of the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL). Many activists ...
MR MBHELE: When these soldiers were killed the attacks on IFP people stopped.
We talk about the identification of what the ANC termed legitimate targets in paragraph 25, the creation of no-go areas, in paragraph 26, and their attacks on government infrastructural targets during the sabotage phase in paragraph 27, which later became directed at persons, Chairperson, ...
MR PRINSLOO: Were any of them political, the attacks on your house?
... I am saying this was politically motivated because there was this animosity between the IFP and the ANC at the time. The ANC people were launching attacks on trains, many of my fellow brothers died in trains. We were making donations and contributions on a daily basis, sending corpses of our ...
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