The Most Famous
EXTREMISTS from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South African Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 209 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 1
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 53.38, Eugène Terre'Blanche is the most famous South African Extremist. His biography has been translated into 30 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 Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB; Afrikaner Resistance Movement in English). 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.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as extremists born between 1941 and 1941. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased extremists include Eugène Terre'Blanche.
