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Eugène Terre'Blanche

1941 - 2010

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène Terre'Blanche has received more than 1,191,383 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Eugène Terre'Blanche is the 168th most popular extremist (down from 140th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from South Africa (down from 42nd in 2019) and the most popular South African Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Eugène Terre'Blanche ranks 168 out of 283. Before him are Jan-Carl Raspe, Saif al-Adel, Golden State Killer, Machine Gun Kelly, Mary Bell, and Ibn al-Khattab. After him are Baby Face Nelson, Radislav Krstić, Nancy Spungen, Dean Corll, Émile Henry, and Tex Watson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Eugène Terre'Blanche ranks 235. Before him are Robert Foxworth, Pola Raksa, Dennis Sullivan, Stephen Krashen, Júlia Várady, and Eric Braeden. After him are Ricardo Piglia, David Lewis, Margitta Gummel, Mike Love, Dirk Frimout, and Yevhen Marchuk. Among people deceased in 2010, Eugène Terre'Blanche ranks 154. Before him are Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Fud Leclerc, Rudolf Barshai, Steingrímur Hermannsson, José Torres, and Alan Sillitoe. After him are Peter Steele, Vasco de Almeida e Costa, Werner Schroeter, Zoltán Varga, Oswaldo López Arellano, and Jean Rollin.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Eugène Terre'Blanche ranks 53 out of 454. Before him are Piet Cronjé (1836), Angelique Rockas (1951), Ronald Harwood (1934), Christiaan de Wet (1854), Frances Ames (1920), and Piet Joubert (1834). After him are Bruce Grobbelaar (1957), David Cooper (1931), Trevor Jones (1949), Reggie Walker (1889), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), and Cyril Cusack (1910).

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Among EXTREMISTS In South Africa

Among extremists born in South Africa, Eugène Terre'Blanche ranks 1. After him are Moses Sithole (1964).

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