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Goedgevonden farm incident
The Namibian government, with the assistance of [[Interpol]], are still trying to have the two men, who are in Britain, extradited to stand trial.
The Namibian government, with the assistance of [[Interpol]], are still trying to have the two men, who are in Britain, extradited to stand trial.
==Goedgevonden Farm Clash==
On May 11th 1991 some 2000 White farmers clashed with a contingent of the South African Police at a state-owned farm, named Goedgevonden, situated some 11 miles from Ventersdorp.
The farm was nestled between a number of privately owned White farms, in 1991 (as part of the government's reform program for Apartheid) the Land Acts were repealed. The Land Acts had previously given Whites exclusive rights to buy land in farming areas.
Due to the repeal a number of Blacks moved onto Goedgevonden farm and erected a squatter camp. In the months following this White farmers nearby began to experience stock thefts, they asked the government to help, but the government didn't respond.
The AWB took up the fight on behalf of the White farmers and Terre'Blanche threatened, in late April 1991, that unless the government evicted the Black squatters the AWB would do it. The government said the squatters would be "protected" against the AWB.
Interestingly in 1988 the South African Police, who were in 1991 defending the squatters, had evicted squatters from Goedgevonden farm.
On the evening of May 10th some 2000 White farmers went to Goedgevonden to help remove the squatters. The police had established cordons around the perimeter of the squatter camp.
Even so, at 1.45 am on May 11th 1991 some 25 AWB men, on horseback, charged into the camp and began tearing down the makeshift houses.
Commercial vehicles were then used by the White farmers to punch a hole through the police cordon. At 3.30 am the farmers poured into the camp and destroyed what was left of it after the attack at 1.45 am
They were then routed by the police. At this point the police unexpectedly opened fire, with live ammunition, on the White farmers, injuring 4 (two of them sustained serious injuries).
Eventually the Law and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok, and Conservative Party Deputy Chairman Dr.Ferdinand Hartzenberg arrived to calm the farmers down. They agreed to leave but swore that the "next time" the police shot at them they would return fire.
And some 3 months later, during the Battle of Ventersdorp, the AWB did indeed shoot at the police (hitting 7 of them).
==Battle of Ventersdorp==
==Battle of Ventersdorp==