The Most Famous
EXTREMISTS from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South African Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 283 Extremists, 1 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 36th most number of Extremists behind Georgia, and Czechia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South African Extremists of all time. This list of famous South African Extremists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941 - 2010)
With an HPI of 52.81, Eugène Terre'Blanche is the most famous South African Extremist. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche ([ɪə̯ˈʒɛn ˈnɛj tərˈblɑ̃ːʃ], 31 January 1941 – 3 April 2010) was an Afrikaner nationalist who founded and led the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB; 'Afrikaner Resistance Movement'). Prior to founding the AWB, he served as a South African Police officer, was a farmer, and was an unsuccessful Herstigte Nasionale Party ('Reconstituted National Party') candidate for local office in the Transvaal. He was a major figure in the right-wing backlash against the collapse of apartheid. His beliefs and philosophy have continued to be influential amongst white supremacists in South Africa and across the world.
2. Moses Sithole (b. 1964)
With an HPI of 37.63, Moses Sithole is the 2nd most famous South African Extremist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Moses Sithole (born 17 November 1964) is a South African serial killer and rapist who committed the ABC Murders. It is believed that he is so named because they began in Atteridgeville, continued in Boksburg and finished in Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg. However, many other sources state that the cities were not in that order, rather beginning in Cleveland, continuing in Boksburg and finishing in Atteridgeville. This has not been denied nor confirmed. Sithole murdered at least 37 women and one toddler between 16 July 1994 and 6 November 1995. Sithole was sentenced to 2,410 years imprisonment and is currently incarcerated in Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as South African extremists born between 1941 and 1964. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living South African extremists include Moses Sithole. The most famous deceased South African extremists include Eugène Terre'Blanche. As of April 2024, 1 new South African extremists have been added to Pantheon including Moses Sithole.
