Eugène Terre'Blanche

Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941–2010) was a South African Afrikaner nationalist who founded and led the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), which opposed the end of apartheid.

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Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging: A South African far-right Afrikaner nationalist organization founded by Terre'Blanche in 1973. Terre'Blanche founded and led the organization that defined his political career.
Afrikaner nationalism: A political movement promoting Afrikaner identity, interests, and national self-determination in South Africa. It supplied the ethnic-nationalist ideas behind Terre'Blanche's politics.
Bophuthatswana crisis: The 1994 crisis in which South African troops intervened amid a revolt against the Bophuthatswana homeland government. AWB militants entered the crisis and their withdrawal under fire became a defining image of the movement.
African National Congress: South Africa's liberation movement and governing party since the country's 1994 democratic transition. The ANC led the movement toward majority rule that Terre'Blanche resisted.
F. W. de Klerk: South African president who negotiated the end of apartheid and oversaw the transition to majority rule. De Klerk pursued negotiations that Terre'Blanche and the AWB opposed.
Apartheid: South Africa's system of legally enforced racial segregation and white minority rule, formally established in 1948. The AWB formed to defend this system as it faced growing domestic and international opposition.
Battle of Ventersdorp: A 1991 clash between AWB supporters and police in Ventersdorp, South Africa, that left three AWB members dead. The confrontation exposed the movement's willingness to use force against the apartheid-era state.
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania: A South African political organization founded in 1959 that advocated African nationalism and opposed apartheid. Its African nationalism directly challenged the white Afrikaner nationalism Terre'Blanche promoted.
Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid leader and the country's first president elected in a fully representative democratic election. Mandela became a central figure in the transition Terre'Blanche rejected.
National Party (South Africa): The South African political party that governed from 1948 to 1994 and enacted apartheid. The party's reforms toward negotiations prompted the resistance Terre'Blanche organized.