Decades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis – a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause. Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis explains.
Reporting by: Rebecca Davis
Filmed by: Joel Seboa
Edited by: Anda Tolibadi
Produced by: Emilie Gambade
Creative input by: Malibongwe Tyilo
Sub-edited by: Kevin Flynn
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Youtube chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
00:42 – Washington, February 2012
01:50 – Who Was Monica Huggett
02:48 – 1980: The Wit Kommando Trial
03:54 – The 1990s: Huggett and the AWB
05:16 – Louisiana and the South Africa Project
06:09 – Return to Kempton Park
07:12 – Farm Murders in Far-Right Messaging
08:48 – Identity Evropa’s 2018 Protest
09:44 – Rebranding White Nationalism
11:02 – What Lex Libertas Stands For
12:10 – An International Network
