Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
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Afrikaner Resistance Movement
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging |
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| Leader | Steyn van Ronge |
| Founder | Eugène Terre'Blanche |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Headquarters | Ventersdorp, North West Province, South Africa |
| Ideology | Volkstaat White supremacy Neo-nazism Afrikaner nationalism |
| Political position | Far-right |
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| Slogan | "God, Volk, Vaderland" (Afrikaans) "God, People, Fatherland" (English) |
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The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) (AWB) is a South African neo-nazi separatist political and paramilitary organisation, often described as a white supremacist group. Since its founding in 1973, it has been dedicated to secessionist Afrikaner nationalism and the creation of an independent Boer-Afrikaner republic or "Volkstaat/Boerestaat" in part of South Africa. In its heyday in the 1980s and 1990s, when the nation was moving toward sharing political power with Black people, the organisation received much publicity.
When the Afrikaners' National Party gained control of the government in the elections of 1948, it began to introduce official apartheid. The AWB was formed in 1973 by Eugène Terre'Blanche and six other far-right Afrikaners. Terre'blanche remained the leader until he was murdered on his farm in 2010. Terre'Blanche was succeeded as leader by Steyn van Ronge. By the late 20th century, media reported that the AWB represented Afrikaners who were not able "to make the leap from the isolated dirt farms even with the huge boost of apartheid."
On 7 July 1973 Eugène Terre'Blanche, a former police officer, called a meeting of several men in Heidelberg, Gauteng, in the then-Transvaal Province of South Africa. He was disillusioned by what he thought were Prime Minister B.J. Vorster's "liberal views" of racial issues in the white-minority country, after a period in which black majorities had ascended to power in many former colonies. Terre'Blanche also worried about what he characterized as communist influences in South African society. He decided to form a group with six other like-minded persons, which they named the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) (AWB), to promote Afrikaner nationalism. His associates elected him as head of the group, a position he held until he was killed on his farm in April 2010.
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