Eugène Terre'Blanche

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Eugène Terre'Blanche (2004)

Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche (born January 31, 1941 or 1944 in Ventersdorp , South Africa ; † April 3, 2010 ibid) was the leader of the far-right South African Boer group, Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB).

biography

Terre'Blanche was born to De Villebois-Mareuil Terre'Blanche and Anna Francina Terre'Blanche. The French surname goes back to his Huguenot ancestors who settled in what was then the Dutch Cape Colony around 1700 . He grew up in a conservative Boer environment. He attended elementary school in his birthplace Ventersdorp in what is now the province of Northwest and the high school in Potchefstroom , where he graduated in 1962. During his school days he founded the youth organization Jong Afrikanerharte (German: "Young Afrikaanerherzen"), which had the goal of protecting the interests and traditions of the Boers.

After finishing school, he went to the South African police force and volunteered in the South African Border War in South West Africa (now Namibia ), where he was appointed an officer. After his military service he became the bodyguard of then Prime Minister John Vorster .

He left the police force after four years, joined the right-wing Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP) and was a candidate for it in the provincial and parliamentary elections for the Heidelberg constituency . On July 7, 1973, Eugene Terre'Blanche and six other members founded the AWB, the aim of which was to unite all Boers in an independent, non-party “ people's state ”. The movement was soon referred to as neo-Nazi .

On March 28, 1979 , Terre'Blanche and a few followers tarred and feathered Floors van Jaarsveld, a history professor at the University of Pretoria . Terre'Blanche was convicted for this. In December 1982 Terre'Blanche was arrested for guns found on his brother's farm. In July 1983 he was tried for illegal possession of weapons and terrorist activities . He was sentenced to three years probation. The sentences were lifted in 1999 by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission .

Towards the end of apartheid , his relationship with the ruling National Party (NP) became increasingly hostile because it took an increasingly liberal path. The AWB boycotted the South African parliamentary elections in 1994 after an electoral alliance with other right-wing parties had failed.

Terre'Blanche was sentenced to five years in prison and was imprisoned from April 2000 to June 2004 for the brutal attack on a black employee who sustained permanent damage.

On April 3, 2010, Terre'Blanche was attacked and beaten to death by two black workers on his farm near Ventersdorp, according to police . The alleged perpetrators were two of his employees who allegedly had not received any wages. One of the alleged perpetrators alleged that he was sexually molested by Terre'Blanche. Terre'Blanche was chairman of the AWB until his death. After the murder became known, leading South African politicians and church representatives called for prudence and warned of racial unrest. At the end of May 2012, one of the farm workers was found guilty of murder by a court in Ventersdorp , while the other, a worker underage at the time, was acquitted of suspicion of murder.

Others

Terre'Blanche wrote plays and poetry in Afrikaans . His drama Sybrand the Watermaker (German: "Sybrand, the Watermaker ") was prescribed as subject matter from 1982 to 1983 in schools in what was then the Cape Province .

Documentary about Terre'Blanche

  • The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife . Director: Nick Broomfield , 1992

literature

Web links

 Wikinews: South African right-wing extremist leader killed  - News

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche
  2. ↑ Politics Obituaries: Eugene Terre'Blanche. The Daily Telegraph , accessed April 4, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Decision of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission , accessed on April 4, 2010
  4. ↑ a b biography of Eugène Terre'Blanches (English), archive version
  5. ^ Terre'Blanche returns to a new world. The Guardian, June 10, 2004, accessed January 12, 2018
  6. ↑ Terreblanche killed for unpaid wages - police . In: Independent Online . April 3, 2010. Archived from the original on July 15, 2010. Retrieved on December 27, 2010.
  7. ↑ Racist leader Terreblanche slain on his farm . In: Spiegel Online . April 4, 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2010.
  8. ↑ Black accused accuses white racists of sex attacks . In: Spiegel Online . April 11, 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2010.
  9. ^ After the murder of right-wing extremists - South Africa fears race riots ( memento of April 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de, report of April 4, 2010
  10. ↑ Farm workers convicted of the murder of right-wing extremist Terre'Blanche ( Memento of July 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: stern.de of May 22, 2012, accessed on May 24, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Terre'Blanche, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Terre'Blanche, Eugène Ney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African right-wing extremist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1941 or 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ventersdorp , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 2010
Place of death Ventersdorp , South Africa