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Police pounce on AWB members

Police pounce on AWB members

Date
13 Dec 1982
Updated
30 Sep 2019
Police pounce on AWB members

Security Police arrested the leader, Eugene Terreblanche (Terre'Blanche), and eight other members of the right-wing group the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), after uncovering illegal arms caches in different parts of the country. The caches were linked to the AWB after its leader had been accused of orchestrating a series of attacks against the government, aiming to create an Afrikaner Republic within South Africa.

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  1. 01Sahistory,' Security Police arrested the leader ',[online],Available at www.sahistory.org.za[Accessed: 21 November 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Police pounce on AWB members. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012504

South African History Online (2011) 'Police pounce on AWB members', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012504 (Accessed: 30 July 2026).

South African History Online, Police pounce on AWB members [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012504, (accessed 30 July 2026).

"Police pounce on AWB members." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012504. Accessed 30 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Police pounce on AWB members." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012504.

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