Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) is a South African political party for the Afrikaner people, the Boers. It was formed in 1973 by Eugène Terre'Blanche. He led the party until his death in 2010. It is now led by Steyn van Ronge.[1]
They are a party for the Afrikaans-speaking white South Africans who want their own nation. They want to name it Boerestaat. The party is not as extreme as other parties who want to kick out all the black South Africans. The AWB simply wants a state within SA borders.[2]
The AWB also wants to go back to apartheid, or at least some of them want it. They claim to seek to end the killing of White people by Black people. The organisation is not violent, but it used to be back in the 1990s.
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Media
AWB Rally, Church Square, Pretoria, in 1990
"Three-sevens" logo of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, which makes visual reference to the old Nazi flag.
Vierkleur, flag of the once independent South African Republic
Flag of South Africa (1928–1994), replacing the Union Jack with the Vryheidsvlag (the official ethnic flag of Afrikaners)
Flag of South Africa (1928-1994), replacing the Union Jack with the flag of the AWB
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References
- ↑ "Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
- ↑ "Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) - The O'Malley Archives". omalley.nelsonmandela.org. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
