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===Apartheid government fronts=== [[South Africa]]'s [[apartheid]]-era government used numerous front organizations to influence world opinion and to undertake [[extra-judicial]] activities and the killing of anti-apartheid activists; these included<ref>{{Cite web|title=Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, Volume 2 |pages=525β527 |year=2003 |url=https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/finalreport/Volume%202.pdf |access-date=January 29, 2020}}</ref> the following: *''[[The Citizen (South Africa)|The Citizen]]'' β funded secretly by the government and was intended to challenge the liberal ''[[Rand Daily Mail]]'', contributing to the political ruin of [[John Vorster]] and [[Connie Mulder]] *[[Civil Cooperation Bureau]] (CCB) β a covert, special forces organization that harassed, seriously injured, and eliminated anti-apartheid activists *[[Federal Independent Democratic Alliance]] (FIDA) β a conservative black group.<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0723/23051.html Pretoria Leaders Face Published Allegations], ''[[Christian Science Monitor]]'', July 23, 1991</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=48iHOXlrHBkC&q=gogotya&pg=PA133 ''They're Burning the Churches: The Final Dramatic Events that Scuttled Apartheid''], Patrick Noonan, Jacana Media, 2003, page 133</ref> *[[International Freedom Foundation]] β Washington-based mechanism to combat sanctions and support [[Jonas Savimbi]] and [[UNITA]] *[[Jeugkrag]] β or Youth for South Africa, led by [[Marthinus van Schalkwyk]] as a short-lived Afrikaner youth group, surreptitiously funded by the Military Intelligence's Project Essay *National Student Federation (NSF) β led by [[Russell Crystal]], intended to challenge [[NUSAS]] *[[Roodeplaat Research Laboratories]] β Led by [[Dr. Daan Goosen|Daan Goosen]], the main research facility of [[Project Coast]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/south-africa/biological/|title=South Africa - Country Profiles - NTI|work=NTI: Nuclear Threat Initiative|access-date=2013-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120112825/http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/south-africa/biological/|archive-date=2016-01-20|url-status=dead}}</ref> *[[Taussig Familienstiftung]], or Taussig Family Trust - a [[Liechtenstein]] conduit for secret government transactions<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/reports/volume2/chapter6/part4/subsection2.htm|title=TRC Final Report - Department of Foreign Affairs|website=SABC|access-date=23 August 2021}}</ref> *Veterans for Victory β consisting of [[national service]]men, a countermeasure to the [[End Conscription Campaign]], which was allied to the [[United Democratic Front (South Africa)|United Democratic Front]] (UDF)
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