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→Battle of Ventersdorp
Terre'Blanche and 2000 AWB supporters led a march on a National Party meeting being addresed by President DeKlerk on August 9 1991 in Ventersdorp. In an ensuing gunfight 7 policemen were shot, 43 AWB members wounded (3 killed) and 15 innocent bystanders injured).
Terre'Blanche and 2000 AWB supporters led a march on a National Party meeting being addresed by President DeKlerk on August 9 1991 in Ventersdorp. In an ensuing gunfight 7 policemen were shot, 43 AWB members wounded (3 killed) and 15 innocent bystanders injured).
Terre'Blanche and 6 other AWB members were arrested and fined for commiting "public violence" in relation to the Battle of Ventersdorp.
One AWB supporter was forensically linked to a bullet fired at the police and was jailed for 5 years.
The Truth and Reconcilliation Commision granted Eugene Terre'Blanche and then AWB Deputy Leader Piet Rudolph amnesty for the Battle of Ventersdorp.
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