Special Report Transcript Episode 10, Section 3, Time 26:36

But it was devastating to the AWB and changed right wing politics very fundamentally. // It’s easy to talk about war and especially for people in the AWB at that time. Every second sentence they said had to do with war and nobody has actually ever seen it. And, when they saw that on television and they saw those people pleading for their lives I think that had a most profound impact on their thoughts on war. Perhaps the most important incident that led to the ensuing disarray in the right wing. Before that time the ”Afrikaner Volksfront” perhaps represented the most powerful right wing grouping that we’d seen for years in South Africa. And, for the first time in the two years preceding that particular incident you had quite a powerful grouping that were quite capable of waging war if it would ever come to that. I think Eugene Terreblanche could count on the support of a hardcore of about five thousand members, and up to 20 000 sympathisers before that. Before that incident he drew packed halls to the Pretoria City Hall for instance. And it was quite significant. The first meeting that the AWB held in the Pretoria City Hall afterward, I think only about 300 to 400 people attended. And one could see then that they were only the very hardcore, the very last members who actually still wanted to believe in him. The rest of his people were all gone.

Notes: Jan Taljaard (Right wing specialist)

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