1994 Grootfontein Oktoberfest Shooting and Hostage Crisis (Eastern Manifest Destiny)

On the night of October 1, 1994, seven gunmen opened fire on event attendees at the Grootfontein Oktoberfest and held 40 people hostage in a collapsible bungalow for 2 hours. The gunmen, identified as members of the black supremacist group African Union, smashed into the entrance of the event and  shot and killed 54 people and wounded another 117 people. The shooting occured between 18:05 and 18:11 SAST, with the hostage crisis lasting from 18:15 until 20:37, when Grootfontein Anti-Terrorism Task Force officers shot and killed all but one of the gunmen inside the bungalow. The last one, who was wounded in the prior firefight, killed himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The African Union committed this atrocity to "give white people a taste of their own medicine", according to an AU spokesperson, who took responsibility for the shooting.

The incident claimed the lives of 54 people, excluding the AU members. This incident would be the deadliest racially motivated mass shooting in South Africa until 2011, when another seven African Union members opened fire at a concert in Bloemfontein. The incident prompted members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbewinging (AWB) to commit a mass shooting at a predominantly black Chakalaka Cooking Compeititon in Cape Town three days later.