The AWB - AFRIKANER MOVEMENT OF RESISTANCE

As far back as the seventies it already became apparent that the then National Party (NP) government was steering towards a majority rule government for South Africa.The former constitutional dispensation unjustly denied the Boer People’s right to self government in their own Republic. The former dispensation would then lead to the oppressing of the Boer ‘volk’ (people), as is the case today.

On a cold winter’s night on 3 July 1973, seven young men founded the AWB in a garage in Heidelberg, Transvaal.The principles, policy and views of the AWB were based on the Whole Trinity of God.

The most important endeavour of the AWB is the establishment of a homeland for the Boer ‘volk’ (people).This homeland was to be based on the historical claims to territory already granted to the former Boer Republics: the Zuid Afrikaansche Republic, the Republic of the Orange Free State and the Nieuwe Republic - namely Vryheid and Utrecht, Natal.

These Republics were already acknowledged by Britain, Holland, France, Germany, Belgium and the United States of America (USA) as the sovereign property of the Boer ‘volk’ (people).The Boer ‘volk’(people) therefore have a claim to a Boer State according to international law. After the loss of independence in 1902 (Peace of Vereeninging) and the establishment of the Union in 1910 the Boer ‘volk’ (people) employed several attempts to regain their independence. The rebellion of 1914, the Freedom delegation to Britain in 1919, several attempts since 1986 to discuss their plight with the State President, petitions in lieu of their claim to independence and the attempted secession in 1994 failed to regain independence for the Boer ‘volk’ (people).

The AWB recognises the rights of other nations and peoples to self- governance and claims nothing more for it’s own ‘volk’.The AWB however, rejects any form of dispensation that denies a nation the right to self-determination or self-government, as is the situation in South Africa today.