Victory or Violence: The Story of the AWB of South Africa

Third edition. The dramatic story
of South Africa’s Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB – Afrikaner
Resistance Movement) and its charismatic leader Eugene Terre’Blanche.

At
10:10 AM on April 24, 1994, the largest terrorist bomb that ever
exploded in South African history, detonated in a car in central
Johannesburg. The explosion threw the vehicle across the street and
ripped a gaping hole in the road. Several buildings were flattened in
the attack, aimed at the nearby African National Congress (ANC)
headquarters.  Ten people were killed in the blast, including foreign
journalists and one ANC candidate in the upcoming elections.

The
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB, or, in English, the Afrikaner
Resistance Movement) was responsible for the bombing, and the many that
followed. So serious was the AWB’s campaign of violent resistance
against impending ANC rule, that the then government was forced to call
out a state of emergency in the many parts of the country, as ANC
sabotage squads targeted power networks railway lines, ANC and National
Party offices—and more—in a wave of attacks which made all the ANC’s
previous efforts at “armed resistance” pale into insignificance.

Read
here of the early founding of the AWB, the backgrounds of its leading
characters, the increasing militancy which accompanied the then
government’s political reform program, the development of the movement’s
ideological basis, and finally, the turn to violent resistance as the
program to hand over control of the country to the ANC speeded up.

No
understanding of South Africa’s history is complete without this
largely eyewitness account of hardline Afrikaner resistance to the end
of white rule.

This third edition is updated to include the 2011 murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche.

Illustrated throughout with many rare photographs, and fully indexed.