Right-Wing Groups - South African Government Information

weapons and equipment from the Group 34 Commando Base at Welkom during
the night of 2nd/3rd January 1993.
118. Under the leadership of Mr Jordaan (who holds the rank of General in the AWB),
the applicants broke into the military base and made off with a large amount of
w e a p o n r y, including rifles, handguns, ammunition, flares and smoke gre n a d e s
as well as other equipment. No one was injured during the incident. The police
re c o v e red the stolen weapons and equipment a few days later on a farm in the
Hobhouse district.
119. The applicants testified that they had committed the offence as an organised
g roup of AWB members pursuant to a decision that was made by the AWB at
regional level. The motivation behind the theft was to arm farmers on the eastern
b o rder of the then Orange Free State in order to enable them to protect themselves
from attacks by members of the Azanian People’s Liberation Army
(APLA) who were operating from Lesotho. They testified that this was necessary
as the government of the day was unable to maintain law and order in that
region. None of the applicants derived any personal gain from the theft of the
weapons and equipment.
120. The Committee was satisfied that the applications related to an act associated
with a political objective committed in the course of the conflicts of the past
and that the applicants had made a full disclosure. All were granted amnesty
[ A C / 1998 / 0075 ].
P O S T-1990 VIOLAT I O N S
Sabotage of the transitional pro c e s s
121. The Committee received thirty-five applications from members of right-wing
o rganisations in respect of a range of violations committed with the aim of sabotaging
the process of negotiations in the country. The violations, for the most
part, consisted of attacks on individuals and included targeted assassinations.
Most (71 %) were refused amnesty.
122. The Committee received forty-one applications in respect of attacks on
symbolically important targets such as schools, business premises and court
buildings. Most of these (95 %) were granted.
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