South Africa · Politics / Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
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
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