AWB members are sentenced for disrupting elections

Date: 3 Apr 1996
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

AWB members are sentenced for disrupting elections

Five members of the ultra right Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) were sentenced to twenty-six years imprisonment each for their part in a bombing campaign in which twenty people were killed and hundreds injured, aimed at disrupting the 1994 elections.

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01O'Malley, P., '1996', from Nelson Mandela Centre for Memory, [online], Available at www.nelsonmandela.org [Accessed: 01 April 2014]
02De Wet, P., Bombers must come clean - De Kock, from The New Age, [online], Available at www.thenewage.co.za [Accessed: 01 April 2014]

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). AWB members are sentenced for disrupting elections. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013253

South African History Online (2011) 'AWB members are sentenced for disrupting elections', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013253 (Accessed: 19 August 2026).

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South African History Online. "AWB members are sentenced for disrupting elections." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013253.