Eugene Terre'Blanche

Nickname: 'ET'

Former Leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement AWB

Born in North-west South Africa

Deceased 03-04-2010 in Ventersdorp, North West Province

Eugene Terre'blanche (known as ET) was an Afrikaans farmer, former policeman and far-right South African politician who founded the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) during the apartheid era in South Africa. Throughout his political life, he fought for an Afrikaner secessionist state within South Africa. He was released from jail in 2004 after serving six years for assaulting a black petrol-pump attendant and for the attempted murder of a security guard. In 2009, he made news for attempting to revitalise the Nazi-style Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) to 'save them from the oppression of the black African National Congress (ANC) Government.' He has previously released a poetry collection and DVD. He had stated (in a newspaper interview) that he would publish his biography, 'Blouberge van Nimmer' (The Blue Mountains of Long Ago), in December 2009. He was murdered at his farm in Ventersdorp, North-West province on 3rd April 2010.