Career of Eugene TerreBlanche

Eugene TerreBlanche, the man who preached violence in South Africa against racial equality, even become victims of unrestrained violence. His career at a glance.
  
The leader of the extreme right "Weerstandsbeweging Africans" (AWB), Eugene TerreBlanche was killed on his farm near his birthplace Ventersdorp cruelly killed with a machete and a baton. To the 69 year old it was extremists in recent years become more quiet, even if the AWB wrestled under his leadership since 2008 at a revival of the militant struggle for white supremacy in South Africa.


TerreBlanche was killed on his farm by two black workers with cutting and stabbing weapons.
TerreBlanche, meaning "white earth", was the founder and leader of the AWB for decades. His grandfather and father had fought for "the cause of the Boers."Already as a teenager TerreBlanche founded the Afrikaner youth organization "Young Africans heart." After graduation he went to the South African Police Service and served in the then South West Africa, now Namibia. Eventually he became a member of the security forces bodyguard of the former South African prime minister, John Vorster.

Close to fascist ideology

TerreBlanche supporters lay flowers down on the farm of the murder victim.
TerreBlanche, founded in 1973 with six other Boers, the AWB, which already demonstrated with the use of Nazi-like symbols and martial parades their ideological closeness to the fascists. The AWB stood up for one Afrikaner nation state, in which blacks should just "guest workers" to be. Angry, but also increasingly isolated among the Boers, the organization fought against the abolition of the apartheid system and the reconciliation policy of Frederik Willem de Klerk and Nelson Mandela.

Terre Blanche, who also wrote poetry and plays, was considered enigmatic contemporary: His followers revered the bearded, heavy-weight Buren as a charismatic leader - who, however, ridiculed and times with drunkenness, sex scandals or the fall from his horse during a public appearance.

After prison, "born-again Christian"


The brother of former AWB chief, Andries TerreBlanche, after a press conference on the occasion of the assassination.
TerreBlanche was arrested in the 80s and 90s several times after a militant and terrorist activities and sentenced. The actions ranged from tarring and feathering of a professor in Pretoria and illegal possession of arms to bloody street battles and bombings. Shortly before the first democratic election in South Africa in April 1994, the AWB had perpetrated bombing attacks in the Johannesburg inner city, where several people were killed. However, the courts of the apartheid system spared prison sentences against perpetrators of violence to impose political white, later, the radical right then benefited from the amnesty and reconciliation policy of the first black South African President Mandela.

TerreBlanche, however, still had to be from April 2000 to June 2004 to jail after a court because he was convicted of a brutal attack on a petrol station attendant and the attempted murder of a security officer to six years in prison. In prison he had changed and had become a "born-again Christian" peaceful and conciliatory, reported after his murder family members. However TerreBlanche in 2009 had called for public speeches a "free Boer Republic" and the collection of all right-wing groups in South Africa.