Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Ventersdorp in South Africa. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
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
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
Provenance
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