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The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaans pronunciation: [afriˈkɑːnər ˌviərstants.bəˈviəχəŋ], meaning 'Afrikaner Resistance Movement'), commonly known by its abbreviation AWB (locally [/ɑː.ʋeː.beː/]), is a Afrikaner nationalist, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi political party in South Africa.
The storming of the Kempton Park World Trade Centre took place in South Africa on 25 June 1993 when approximately three thousand members of the Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF), Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and other right-wing Afrikaner paramilitary groups stormed the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, near Johannesburg.
Video footage shows AWB members locking arms and carrying rags and vinegar to lessen the effects of tear gas. Once the AWB cut the electricity and fired on the police, the police were ordered to shoot to kill. Three policemen were wounded, none of them fatally, while the police killed one AWB member. The AWB also fired into a police minibus.
Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche ([ɪə̯ˈʒɛn ˈnɛj tərˈblɑ̃ːʃ], 31 January 1941 [n 1] – 3 April 2010) was an Afrikaner nationalist who founded and led the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB; 'Afrikaner Resistance Movement').
The AWB countered these claims, although Travers described the book as "dynamite." [12] The South African business newspaper Financial Mail published a lead story on 6 August detailing the "theory" that F.W. de Klerk had orchestrated the libel case to discredit Terre'Blanche and the far right movement in South Africa. [20]
AWB may refer to: .awb, a filename extension for Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband computer files; Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, a South African neo-Nazi organisation; Air waybill, an airline's receipt for goods; Astronomers Without Borders, a US-based organization; attoweber, a unit of magnetic flux; Average White Band, a Scottish band
An American woman was found dead in South Africa after she went missing while hiking Table Mountain in Cape Town, authorities confirmed on Monday.. Brook Cheuvront, 20, from Newland, North ...
The 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis was a major political crisis which began after Lucas Mangope, the president of Bophuthatswana, a nominally independent South African bantustan created under apartheid, attempted to crush widespread labour unrest and popular demonstrations demanding the incorporation of the territory into South Africa pending non-racial elections later that year. [9]