AWB man seeks amnesties

Johannesburg - The Neo-Nazi leader, Eugene Terre'Blanche, is to apply to South Africa's Truth Commission for amnesty for two …

Johannesburg - The Neo-Nazi leader, Eugene Terre'Blanche, is to apply to South Africa's Truth Commission for amnesty for two acts of political thuggery by his supporters, a South African Sunday newspaper, Rapport, has said. Terre'Blanche, who heads the far-right Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), told the paper he was taking the step to "clear my name" and to establish "a clean record". One incident involved the tarring and feathering of a University of Pretoria professor during a public meeting in 1979. Terre'Blanche (52) was never personally charged over the two incidents but 14 of his supporters were fined for public violence in relation to the Ventersdorp incident. The right-wing leader, however, is facing a six-year jail term for severe assault with an iron bar of a former black employee in 1995.