Convicted killer Clive Derby-Lewis, who is doing time for the assassination of SACP general secretary Chris Hani, has been nominated to lead the Volksraad Verkiesing Kommissie (VVK).
Also among the 19 candidates nominated was farmer Abel Malan, who is accused of assaulting a Stellenbosch University academic.
The VKK (People's Council Election Commission) would elect a seven member volksraad (people's council) on September 23 and September 24, its chairman Paul Kruger said on Thursday.
Derby-Lewis is named as a candidate on the VVK's website.
The former Conservative Party MP was sentenced to death for his role in the 1993 assassination of Hani, who was the leader of the ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.
The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when South Africa abolished the death penalty after the 1994 elections.
Kruger confirmed that another of the candidates was Malan, 48, who allegedly assaulted Stellenbosch professor Anton van Niekerk, apparently in anger at an article he wrote about whites being in a lot of debt.
Malan allegedly overturned an office desk onto Van Niekerk, who is a director of the Centre for Applied Ethics at the university, and physically assaulted him. He is out on bail.
Announcing the elections, Kruger said that labeling the VKK a far right-wing organisation was incorrect.
He said Afrikaners had the right to self-determination.
It hoped that, in holding elections, it would obtain a mandate to negotiate with the government on the future of Afrikaners and secure land for Afrikaners who did not want to live in the “Potpourri South Africa”.
So far, 30,000 people had registered for the election, said Kruger.
He said his ideal would be for 700,000 Afrikaaners to take part in the election. -
Sapa