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Volkstaat (Source-Victory or Violence:Story of the AWB of South Africa by Arthur Kemp)
However in light of the genocide of White farmers in South Africa (with 2950 murdered since 1991)[http://www.stopboergenocide.com] the AWB, responding to pleas from a desperate White South African public, has been re-activated and is now holding meetings the length and bredth of South Africa (with two meetings attracting 500 visitors).[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/2059457/South-Africa-AWB-leader-Terre'Blanche-rallys-Boers-again.html]
However in light of the genocide of White farmers in South Africa (with 2950 murdered since 1991)[http://www.stopboergenocide.com] the AWB, responding to pleas from a desperate White South African public, has been re-activated and is now holding meetings the length and bredth of South Africa (with two meetings attracting 500 visitors).[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/2059457/South-Africa-AWB-leader-Terre'Blanche-rallys-Boers-again.html]
==Volkstaat Concept==
Initially the AWB regarded the entirety of South Africa (except for the Bantustans which were designated Black countries) as belonging to the "the White man". However as it became apparent that some concessions would need to be made to appease the international community and non-Whites in South Africa, the AWB favoured a 'Volkstaat' (People's State) solution.
The AWB proposed that the traditional lands occupied by the Boer people, which were the Transvaal, Orange Free State and Northern Natal be made into a Volkstaat, with an AWB government.
The AWB agreed to concede the Cape province to the 4 million or so Cape Coloureds (a mixed race population who's origins lie in 17th century relationships between European settlers and non-European slaves).
And, later on, the AWB agreed that the 800,000-strong Indian community, heavily centred in the Natal province, could have the Natal. With the Whites taking just the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
However the plan was flawed on several levels. Firstly the National Party government refused to hold a referendum on the issue of a Volkstaat and there was some 18 million Blacks in the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
The AWB did not intend to consult the Black people living in the Orange Free State or Transvaal, but this would have no doubt caused internal problems if an AWB Volkstaat had ever come about.
==Boer claims to Transvaal and Orange Free State==
However the Boer nation, who the AWB argues that it represents, has historical rights to the Transvaal and Orange Free State. In the Sand River Convention (1852) Queen Victoria of Britain acquiesed to Boer demdands and agreed that they should be allowed to rule the Transvaal as a republic.
Queen Victoria also agreed to allow the Boers run the Orange Free State under the terms of the Orange River Convention (also known as the Bloemfontein Convention), signed in 1854.
==Flag controversy==
==Flag controversy==