For many people Eugène Terre'Blanche was the rather sinisterly comical but also hateful central figure in Nick Broomfield's twenty-year documentary The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife.
While I fervently hope that the trial of the two people arrested for his alleged murder brings out the truth of what happened, and that justice prevails, I can't help but recall with a shudder what a horrible organisation the AWB were.
All full of bile, venom, and vanity.
What the bigots of apartheid and separatists of the AWB showed was how wrong they actually were. And how the dignity and the strength of the black, coloured, and Indian majority shone through in the new Rainbow Nation.
There is still a long road to travel for South Africa, but with plenty of hard work and love... truth, justice, and reconciliation will triumph.
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