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BVP (Source is Victory or Violence:Story of the AWB of South Africa by Arthur Kemp)
On March 28th 1979 a group of 40 AWB members, including AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, bluffed their way into a lecture at the University of South Africa. The lecture was being given by Professor Floors Van Jaarsveld, a noted liberal who had insulted an Afrikaner Christian celebration (the Day of the Vow). Van Jaarsveld was made an example by the AWB, who publically tarred and feathered him. Van Jaarsveld had insulted the Day of the Vow, a sacred Afrikaner celebration which is commemorated annual by most Calvinist Afrikaners.
On March 28th 1979 a group of 40 AWB members, including AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, bluffed their way into a lecture at the University of South Africa. The lecture was being given by Professor Floors Van Jaarsveld, a noted liberal who had insulted an Afrikaner Christian celebration (the Day of the Vow). Van Jaarsveld was made an example by the AWB, who publically tarred and feathered him. Van Jaarsveld had insulted the Day of the Vow, a sacred Afrikaner celebration which is commemorated annual by most Calvinist Afrikaners.
By 1988 the AWB enjoyed a vast support base and membership, with estimates ranging from 5000 members to 70000. However despite the best efforts of the AWB, and other South African conservatives, in 1989 the newly inaugurated President DeKlerk announced that Apartheid (a system of separating the White, Coloured, Indian and Bantu races) was to end. DeKlerk cowering to international pressure infuriated many White South Africans who felt betrayed by DeKlerk (when he assumed office DeKlerk had assured the White population that no major reforms to Apartheid would be made).
By 1988 the AWB enjoyed a vast support base and membership, with estimates ranging from 5000 members to 70000. However despite the best efforts of the AWB, and other South African conservatives, in 1989 the newly inaugurated President DeKlerk announced that Apartheid (a system of separating the White, Coloured, Indian and Bantu races) was to end. DeKlerk cowering to international pressure infuriated many White South Africans who felt betrayed by DeKlerk (when he assumed office DeKlerk had assured the White population that no major reforms to Apartheid would be made).
==The BVP==
In October 1979 the AWB registered a political party (intended, initially, to contest seats in parliament during elections) with the Department of the Interior. The party was called the '''Blanke Volkstaat Party''' (BVP) which, translates in English as, the White People's State party.
The BVP had four express purposes.
1.To guarantee the freedom (as the AWB saw it)
2.To establish a ''Volkstaat'' (People's State, exclusively for Whites)
3.Never to be "activated" against any other right-wing party
4.To provide a legal front from which the AWB could raise funds
In the 1989 general election (the last Whites-only election) the BVP was intending to contest elections, and Eugene Terre'Blanche addressed meetings across the Transvaal and Orange Free State in his capacity as BVP party leader. However the BVP never did participate in any elections.
It became known as the ''Tar and Feather Party'' because it was founded in the same year as 40 AWB members tarred and feathered a University of Pretoria History Professor for upsetting them with his lectures on Afrikaner history.
==Namibia and UNTAG==
==Namibia and UNTAG==