Special Report Transcript Episode 83, Section 5, Time 43:56

The Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging was founded by Eugene Terreblanche and a handful of others in Transvaal in 1973. It was launched in direct opposition to the National Party, because its members found the NP’s race policy too liberal. Terreblanche and his neo-Nazi organisation also believed that the Afrikaner was a chosen people of God. // ‘Lank leef die Afrikanerdom’ // By the mid 1980s the AWB was fast gaining a reputation for political thuggery. They disrupted National Party meetings and heckled speakers around the country. In the 1990s, after the unbanning of the ANC, SACP, PAC and other organisations the AWB started flexing its military muscle and threatened the government with war if the ANC ever came to power. // ‘The intention of the ANC is to destroy my people, to destroy everything in sight. My message to the ANC don’t try to put your hands on this fatherland, we paid to dearly for it.

Notes: Eugene Terreblanche on horseback, AWB rallies; AWB song ‘o hier is apartheid apartheid apartheid vir my [apartheid for me]; Terreblanche; Political brawl; Burning ANC flag at AWB rally; Terreblanche