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→Battle of Ventersdorp
==Battle of Ventersdorp==
==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 supporters 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.
Terre'Blanche and 6 other AWB members were arrested and fined for commiting "public violence" in relation to the Battle of Ventersdorp.
The Truth and Reconcilliation Commision granted Eugene Terre'Blanche and then AWB Deputy Leader Piet Rudolph amnesty for the Battle of Ventersdorp.
The Truth and Reconcilliation Commision granted Eugene Terre'Blanche and then AWB Deputy Leader Piet Rudolph amnesty for the Battle of Ventersdorp.
The Battle of Ventersdorp was the first time, under Apartheid, that White police officers had killed a White demonstrator.
Two of the AWB supporters killed died as a result of being hit by a vehicle driven wrecklessly through Ventersdorp at the time of the altercation between the police and AWB.
The other dead AWB supporter was shot, at close range, by a policeman.
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