The four former members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging are applying for amnesty for the attack in which one policeman was killed and two wounded.
The applicants, who were convicted of murder, attempted murder and robbery, claimed they were set up by their local AWB commandant, who turned out to be a security police informer.
The four men told the TRC's amnesty committee they found out during their trial that one of the prime movers in the plot to attack the Flagstaff police station, AWB south coast commandant Patrick Pedler, encouraged them to go ahead with the raid in spite of their own misgivings.
They found out later that Pedler, who pulled out of the operation at the last minute, had informed the security police of their plans to attack the police station.
The four AWB members are applying for amnesty for the attack at the Flagstaff police station where a wild shootout occurred on the night of March 3, 1994.
Harry Simon Jardine, 44, of Hibberdene on the south coast, told the amnesty committee he only found out during his trial that Pedler, who participated in the planning of the attack, was a police informer. Jardine said Pedler passed on the information about the planned attack to the security police, who warned the Flagstaff police station. However, the security police told the Transkei police to expect an attack from the Azanian People's Liberation Army (Apla).
The amnesty committee was given no explanation as to why the security police did not try to stop the planned attack when they found about it or why they told the Transkei police to expect an Apla attack.
Jardine said the original idea for the plan came from an Inkatha Freedom Party member in the area, Robin Shoesmith, who suggested they attack the poorly guarded Flagstaff police station.
He proposed they rob the police of weapons which could be used to arm the IFP.
Shoesmith also recommended south coast IFP leader James Zulu be involved and it was agreed that he accompany the raiding party.
Shoesmith told the AWB members there was a large consignment of rifles at the police station, which on Saturday nights was guarded by only one policeman "who was usually drunk".
Jardine said Pedler and Shoesmith were insistent that the operation go ahead because the AWB on the south coast needed to show that it was doing something to counter the African National Congress in the proivince.
When the attack party eventually arrived at the police station, they found that reinforcments had been sent in to thwart the attack.
During a shootout at the police station, Transkei policeman Constable Barnabas Jaggers was killed and two others were injured.
Asked by committee chairman Judge Hassen Mall why, if the policemen were alerted and ready for an attack, they suffered the casualties and not the attackers, Jardine said he could not explain that, but insisted he was telling the truth.
He later said it was possible the policemen were expecting an Apla attack and were therefore on guard for an attack by blacks. They could have been taken by surprise when white men appeared.
Jardine told the committee he was swept away by the "unsteady political situation" and believed that if the ANC came to power he and other Afrikaners would lose everything they had.
Jardine, Zulu and three other AWB members, Morton Christie, 35, Andrew Howell, 42, and Christo Brand, 31, were later arrested and convicted in July last year of murder, attempted murder and robbery. Sentence was postponed pending the outcome of their amnesty application.
Zulu, whose application for amnesty was due to be heard on Wednesday, was killed in an attack on a taxi rank in Port Shepstone three weeks ago.
Christie told the hearing that he had probably fired the first shot on the night of the raid. He said he remembered seeing a Transkei policeman aiming a rifle at him and ordering him to enter the police station. He said he drew his own firearm and began firing.
He said shooting then commenced from both sides and he was unable to say who had caused the death of Jaggers.
All the applicants told the committee they now felt betrayed by the leadership of the AWB, which had not supported them even though they had acted in the interests of the organisation.
The committee said it would make its decision known as to whether amnesty would be granted "in due course".