SOUTH AFRICA: WHITE SUPREMACIST LEADER TERRE BLANCHE MEETS LAW AND ORDER MINISTER VLOK AS VIGILANTES PREPARE TO DEFEND WHITE RULE

Record ID: 676070

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: WHITE SUPREMACIST LEADER TERRE BLANCHE MEETS LAW AND ORDER MINISTER VLOK AS VIGILANTES PREPARE TO DEFEND WHITE RULE
  • Date: 16th May 1990
  • Summary: WELKOM, ORANGE FREE STATE, SOUTH AFRICA (RECENT/ MAY 15, 1990) (RECENT) (REUTERS) SV: GUN STORE 1.01 SV PAN: VIGILANTE NIGHT PATROL 1.07 (MAY 15) CU: MBUELO BONGANI SPEAKING AS NOTED (ENGLISH SOT) 1.12 TRANSCRIPT SEQ 7: BONGANI "OUR PEOPLE ARE BEING JUST ATTACKED BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK" MIDDELBURG, CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA (RECENT) (REUTERS) SV/GV: SHEEP FARMER LETTI BLUM WITH BLACK WORKERS, BLUM SPEAKING (ENGLISH SOT) (3 SHOTS) 1.26 TRANSCRIPT SEQ 8: BLUM "WE WILL NOT DIVIDE OUR PROPERTY WITH ANYONE. WE WORK FOR IT, WE WORK VERY HARD FOR IT" Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 31st May 1990 13:00
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  • Location: South Africa, South Africa
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAWF0JVEDF7BLGZ6L4LNHJF8ZV
  • Story Text: CAPE TOWN/VENTERSDORP, TRANSVAAL/WELKOM, ORANGE FREE STATE/MIDDELBURG, CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA
    South Africa's Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok met white supremacist Eugene Terre Blanche in Cape Town on Monday (May 14) for talks on the problem of extreme right-wing militias.
    The neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), led by Terre Blanche, opened a secret training camp in Ventersdorp, Transvaal, to the media at the weekend, showing off paramilitary squads of men and women in small-arms practice and army drills.
    But after Monday's talks, the right-wing leader said the AWB's aim was not to build a second army, but to defend itself against attacks by the African National Congress or by communists.
    The AWB chief and other extreme right-wing leaders have publicly denounced President F W de Klerk for his recent talks with the ANC, and oppose talk of giving the country's black majority more power.
    The paramilitary groups are attracting support from white farmers anxious to keep control of their land and white mineworkers in industrial towns such as Welkom, where vigilante patrols have been set up Black community leader Mbuelo Bongani said on Tuesday that the Welkom vigilantes were attacking people just because they were black.
    <strong>Source: REUTERS - JIMI MATTHEWS/NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY INC (NBC)</strong>
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