Convicted killer Clive Derby-Lewis, who is serving a life sentence in connection with the assassination of SACP general secretary Chris Hani, has been nominated to lead the Volksraad Verkiesing Kommissie.
Also among the 19 candidates is controversial farmer Abel Malan, who has been accused of assaulting a Stellenbosch University academic.
The Afrikaner organisation will elect its seven-member volksraad (people's council) on the weekend of September 23-24, according to its chairman, Paul Kruger.
Derby-Lewis is named as a candidate on the organisation'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 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, was a candidate.
Malan allegedly overturned an office desk onto Van Niekerk, 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 labelling his organisation as a far rightwing party was incorrect.
He said Afrikaners had the right to self-determination.
It hoped that, by holding elections, the organisation 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 what he called "Potpourri South Africa".
Kruger said 30000 people had registered.
He said his ideal would be for 700000 Afrikaners to take part in the election.
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