Eugène Ney TerreBlanche   (born Jan. 31, 1941, Ventersdorp,
Transvaal province, S.Af. [now in North West province]—died
April 3, 2010, near Ventersdorp), . [Credit: Johann
Hattingh—EPA/Landov]South African farmer and Afrikaner
nationalist who cofounded (1970) the pro-apartheid Afrikaner
Weerstandsbeweging (AWB, Afrikaner Resistance Movement), through
which he fought against majority rule in South Africa and
campaigned for a separate whites-only homeland. Terre’Blanche
was of French Huguenot ancestry and originally trained as a
police officer, serving for a time as a presidential bodyguard.
He became well known as a fiery public speaker with a penchant
for wearing paramilitary uniforms and sporting neo-Nazi symbols,
though his influence waned in later years. ... (100 of 184
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