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Obituary: Eugene Terreblanche
The Afrikaner Resistance Movement came to prominence in the 1980s |
The very name of South African paramilitary leader Eugene Terreblanche highlighted the white supremacist's roots.
Terreblanche means "white earth" in French, the language of the politician's Huguenot ancestors.
His murder - reportedly being hacked to death with a panga on his farm - brings a gory end to a singularly ineffectual political career.
Terreblanche, who was 69, and his Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement - AWB) came to prominence in the early 1980s.
At the time, the government of PW Botha was considering a constitutional plan allowing South Africa's Asian and coloured (mixed-race) minorities to vote for racially-segregated parliamentary chambers.
For the likes of Terreblanche, this was the start of the slippery slope towards democracy, communism, black rule and the destruction of the Afrikaner nation.
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