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Special Report Transcript Episode 19, Section 4, Time 25:24The judges of the Amnesty Committee in Potchefstroom this week heard four brothers argue that pure racial hatred should qualify as a political motive for murder. The Committee was distinctly sceptical. The Van Straaten brothers brutally killed two security guards at a transport company and said it was part of an attempt to show that black people were not capable of doing their jobs. Nantie Steyn was in Potchefstroom. Notes: Max du Preez 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 ... |