Right-Wing Groups - South African Government Information
Right-Wing Groups - South African Government Information
Right-Wing Groups - South African Government Information
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50. The first category deals with right-wing attacks on individuals, on those<br />
p e rceived to have betrayed the nationalist ideal and on black persons insofar as<br />
race determined the notion of the ‘enemy’. Few human rights violations were<br />
committed by right-wing groups during the 1960s and 1970s.<br />
51. The second category deals with applications for amnesty for the possession<br />
(including the theft or manufacture) of arms, explosives and ammunition.<br />
52. The third category deals with violations committed between February 1990 and<br />
December 1993, which were intended in one way or another to derail the pro c e s s<br />
of negotiations by instilling a climate of terror and fear in the country. Included<br />
in this category are indiscriminate attacks on individuals, targeted assassinations,<br />
i n t e r f e rence with political activities and sabotage attacks on symbolic targ e t s ,<br />
including schools, businesses, newspapers, court buildings and so on.<br />
53. The fourth category deals with violations committed between 1 January and<br />
27 April 1994 with the specific intention of throwing the preparations for the first<br />
democratic elections in April into disarray. These violations include those arising<br />
f rom a comprehensive pre-election bombing campaign of strategic attacks as<br />
well as ongoing attacks on individuals.<br />
54. It should be noted that the violations reported to the Commission re p resented<br />
less than half of the actual number of violations for which members of right<br />
wing organisations were responsible in the months leading to the April 1994<br />
e l e c t i o n s .<br />
LINKS WITH OTHER ORGANISAT I O N S<br />
Links with the security forc e s<br />
55. The evidence shows that the right wing enjoyed a doubled-edged relationship<br />
with the security forces.<br />
56. On the one hand, both the security forces and right-wing groupings shared a<br />
‘common enemy’ in the ANC/SACP alliance. Although members of the former<br />
SADF and SAP were, from 1984, prohibited by law from being members of the<br />
AWB and other right-wing organisations, many members of the police forc e<br />
w e re sympathetic to the right wing. Police and right-wingers often moved in the<br />
same circles, especially in small towns where white communities were small.<br />
V O L U M E 6 S E C T I O N 3 C H A P T E R 6 P A G E 4 5 4
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