Eugène Terre'Blanche
| Eugène Terre'Blanche | |
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| Leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging | |
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In office 7 July 1973 – 3 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Party created |
| Succeeded by | Steyn von Ronge |
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| Born |
Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche January 31, 1941 Ventersdorp, Transvaal Province, South Africa |
| Died | April 3, 2010 (aged 69) Ventersdorp, North West Province, South Africa |
| Resting place | Villana, Ventersdorp |
| Political party | Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (after 1973) |
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Herstigte Nasionale Party (before 1973) |
| Spouse(s) | Martie Terre'blanche |
| Children | Bea Terre'blanche |
| Alma mater | Potchefstroom Hoërvolkskool |
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Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche (31 January 1941 – 3 April 2010) was a white supremacist and Afrikaner nationalist in South Africa who was the founder and leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB). Prior to founding the AWB, Terre'Blanche served as a South African Police officer, was a farmer, and was an unsuccessful Herstigte Nasionale Party (Reconstituted National Party) candidate for local office in the Transvaal. He was a major figure in the right-wing backlash against the collapse of apartheid. His beliefs and philosophy have continued to be influential among white supremacists in South Africa and around the world.
Under Terre'Blanche, the AWB swore to use violence to preserve minority rule, opposing any concessions offered to the African National Congress – an organisation AWB supporters repeatedly branded as Marxist terrorists – and gaining notoriety for storming the Kempton Park Trade Centre during bilateral negotiations in 1993. AWB loyalists also clashed with South African security forces at the Battle of Ventersdorp, a bloody 1991 skirmish in which police opened fire on a white crowd for the first time since the Rand Rebellion, leaving three Afrikaners dead. Immediately prior to South Africa's first multiracial elections, Terre'Blanche's followers were linked to a number of bombings and assassinations targeting the South African Communist Party; armed AWB commandos even participated in Bophuthatswana's abortive 1994 coup d'état.
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