Afrikaner Right-Wing Organisations Stormed CODESA Negotiations
On 23 June 1993, leaders of the Afrikaner right-wing organisations held a secret meeting in an undisclosed venue near Pretoria. They included Eugéne Terre’Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), Constand Viljoen, the retired Chief of the apartheid SADF and leader of the Afrikaner Volksfront (AFV), and Ferdi Hartzenberg, leader of the Conservative Party (KP). The meeting was around planning to halt the negotiations that were taking place at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park. These negotiations were strongly opposed by right-wing white groups in South Africa.
The “White Right-Wing” consisted of all white groups and individuals who organised themselves to campaign for self-determination and who mobilised against the democratic changes sweeping South Africa in the early 1990s. Most of these groups and individuals emerged from conservative Afrikaner circles in the country. The movement away from apartheid by the National Party government during the early 1990s was regarded by some white Afrikaners as a treasonous capitulation to black political demands, which would result in the country being handed over to “communists”. In response to this perceived threat, the “White Right-Wing” began organising itself with a view to creating structures that would ensure the safety of its members and the protection of their property. Neighbourhood watches and surveillance groups (referred
