Birth of Eugene Ney TerreBlanche
Birth of Eugene Ney TerreBlanche
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Eugene Ney TerreBlanche Biography and Timeline
Follow Eugene Ney TerreBlanche through 13 dated historical records for South Africa.
Eugene Ney TerreBlanche, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1941
1973
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
TerreBlanche founds the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, AWB
1991
Battle of Ventersdorp
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
1993
World Trade Centre
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
2000
Arrest of Eugene Ney TerreBlanche
Sentenced to 1 yr in prison
2001
Arrest of Eugene Ney TerreBlanche
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
2008
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
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.
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
Terre Blanche becomes the speaker at several AWB rallies, encompassing Vryburg, Middelburg, Mpumalanga and Pretoria.
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
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.
International Court of Justice
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
2009
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
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
2010
Assassination of Eugene Ney TerreBlanche
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
Death of Eugene Ney TerreBlanche
Records, sources and methodology
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