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Apartheid leader Eugene Terre'Blanche returns to politics

Speaking to a group of about 300 supporters in a small town outside Johannesburg, he used rousing sentiments from the past to call white farmers and their families to action.

"Now is not the time to be afraid," he shouted, to murmurs of approval from the audience.

"Now all true Afrikaners must reach out to each other and fight to the bitter end.

"Our country is being run by criminals who murder and rob. This land was the best, and they ruined it all.

"We are being oppressed again. We will rise again."

Terre'Blanche, 68, said he aims to bring together 23 far-right groups under the banner of the AWB and told the Times he would take the fight for a "free Afrikaner" to the Hague, demanding the right to a separate republic.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)