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Strydom was raised in a right-wing family, his father, Nic Strydom, was [[AWB]] regional leader for Heidelberg, Transvaal, and was an elder in the NGK Dutch Reformed Church. At Barend's trial his father proudly announced that he had "planted the seeds of his son's views".

Strydom was raised in a right-wing family, his father, Nic Strydom, was [[AWB]] regional leader for Heidelberg, Transvaal, and was an elder in the NGK Dutch Reformed Church. At Barend's trial his father proudly announced that he had "planted the seeds of his son's views".

Strydom, by the age of 16, was very active in right-wing politics, he was utterly dedicated to the Conservative Party, HNP and AWB, and his schoolwork was neglected as such. After taking his final exams in 1984 he left school and joined the police, whilst stationed in South West Africa (now Namibia) he saw the corpose of a White nurse killed by Black rioters, this convinced him even more that Blacks were the enemy of Whites.

Strydom, by the age of 16, was very active in right-wing politics, he had, by right-wingers, been warned of the dangers of communism and drug and alcohol abuse. His opinions were nurtured by his father, Nic Strydom, an ex-policeman, regional AWB leader and elder in the NGK (Dutch Reformed Church). Nic Strydom later said, "I explained to him (Barend) that, according to the Bible, each nation should have its own Church and religion, which he accepted wholeheartedly".

 

Nic Strydom's more extreme beliefs were cited as a primary reason why Barend was so fanatical, Nic Strydom said that he believed Black people to be animals, and that this was a Biblically-based belief.

 

He said, "Blacks are not human beings according to the Bible, and many books I have read, in my eyes they are animals. Many books Hendrik (Barend's middle name by which his father referred to him) and I have read state, among other things, that [[Jews]] of today are not Whites, Blacks are animals and all Whites stem from the Israelites".

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