Third Force

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The "Third Force" was a term used by leaders of the ANC during the late 1980s and early 1990s to refer to a clandestine force believed to be responsible for a surge in violence in KwaZulu-Natal, and townships around and south of the Witwatersrand (or "Rand") in South Africa.^[1]

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) found that:

While little evidence exists of a centrally directed, coherent or formally constituted "Third Force", a network of security and ex-security force operatives, frequently acting in conjunction with right-wing elements and/or sectors of the IFP, was involved in actions that could be construed as fomenting violence and which resulted in gross human rights violations, including random and targeted killings.^[2]

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[1] The Historical Significance of South Africa's Third Force"

[2] "TRC APPENDIX: THE ‘THIRD FORCE’"

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