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Examples
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This is testimony by Elsie Konile, telling how she tried to reclaim the body of her son Zabonke from the apartheid era police, who she calls "boers".
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The unit had targeted police vehicles only, in order to defend people from the "boers", he said.
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The pair was also informed on the day of the killings the men were not "boers" (Afrikaaners), but were from Iran.
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Calling Mandela the "butcher of Shellhouse", Meyer said the cairn was also a signal to the government that the "boers" would not give up.
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Khumalo said the ANC had compromised "too much with everything to satisfy their masters", the National Party and the NP's constituency, the "boers".
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He said because at the time he was so scared of the "boers", he confessed to the crime just to "free" himself.
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Another witness, Julia Nkwenyane, asked the committee to find out why her son, Donald, was killed by "boers" while he was walking with friends in Alexandra on March 29, 1991.
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Rundle said the BVK, which represents Afrikaner groups including the Boerestaat Party and Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, took part in the conference in an attempt to have "boers" classified as an indigenous people.
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PAC deputy president Dr Motsoko Pheko said the granting of a volkstaat to "boers" was taking place against a background of landless blacks.
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In the letter, drawing attention to the many similarities in the struggle for freedom by blacks and "boers" in South Africa, Mr
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