 They subsequently issued additional threats, asserting that there would be "further surprises" in store.One of the group's stated aims was to assassinate Nelson Mandela and possibly restore apartheid to South Africa, although others have suggested that their aim was to start a race war and ""kick the blacks out of the country"", while still others have asserted that they aimed to set up an independent white Afrikaner nation.A letter to the police sent by the organisation suggested a religious motive to the attacks, accusing those who opposed them of being the enemies of the "God of Blood River," describing themselves as "Soldiers of God" and suggesting that the bombings were "the beginning of the end" of the ANC.