Eugene Ney TerreBlanche Biography

Birth of Eugene Ney TerreBlanche

TerreBlanche founds the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, AWB

TerreBlanche viewed the end of apartheid as a surrender to communism, and threatened full scale civil war if President FW de Klerk handed power to Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress, when De Klerk addressed a meeting in TerreBlanches hometown of Ventersdorp, TerreBlanche led a protest, and the Battle of Ventersdorp ensued between the AWB and the police, with a number of people killed

In an attempt to disrupt the negotiation process, TerreBlanche accompanied by General Constand Viljoen and Conservative Party Parliamentarian Thomas Langley led an armed invasion of the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park while negotiations were in progress

Sentenced to 1 yr in prison

TerreBlanche iis sentenced to six years in prison, of which he served three years, for assaulting John Ndzima, a petrol station worker, and the attempted murder of Paul Motshabi, a security guard, in 1996

Calls for a "free Afrikaner republic", and vows to take his campaign to the United Nations International Court of Justice in The Hague in a bid to secure this.

This record states: Terre Blanche becomes the speaker at several AWB rallies, encompassing Vryburg, Middelburg, Mpumalanga and Pretoria.

This record states: The AWB announces the re-activation of the political party, for populist reasons, citing the encouragement of the public principally to attacks on commercial farmers and ethnic Boers, the electricity crisis, corruption across Government departments and rampant crime.

Calls for a "free Afrikaner republic", and vows to take his campaign to the United Nations International Court of Justice in The Hague in a bid to secure this

Addresses a 3-day convention attended by 300 Afrikaners intended to develop a strategy for "Boer liberation", he reinforces earlier claims for land in Northern Natal and the Eastern Transvaal

TerreBlanche, who had lived in relative obscurity since the collapse of his organisation, is murdered on his farm Villana, just outside Ventersdorp, beaten to death with pipes and pangas (machetes), while napping

Death of Eugene Ney TerreBlanche