Parts 5 & 6 of the South Africa arc.

The Whites' Last Stand

Original Air Date: 4.3.25

In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century. 

Sources:

https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/

https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong

Guelke, Adrian. “Political Violence and the South African Transition.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 59–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30001810. 

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme 

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkI

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html 

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185912/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/newsticker/rechte-in-suedafrika-rekrutieren-internationale-soeldner---politikermord-lautet-ein-auftrag-die-killer-kamen-von-der-reeperbahn,10917074,8820188.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 

https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9708/s970821c.htm

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans%5Cpta/2derby1.htm

Death of Apartheid: The Whites’ Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates.

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The Jamboree in Jamba

This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.

Sources:

Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.

Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist. WND Books, 2011.

Easton, Nina. Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade. Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Ivon, David. “Touting for South Africa: International Freedom Foundation.” Covert Action Information Bulletin, 1989.

Blumenthal, Sidney (December 1983). "Let Lehrman Be Reagan". The New Republic.

Cachalia, Firoz and Mervyn Shear. WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era. Wits University Press, 2022.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/ 

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-13-atrocious-crimes-apartheid-hitmans-brutal-confessions-serve-as-a-warning-for-south-africans/ 

https://mg.co.za/article/2008-05-29-the-spy-who-lost-it/ 

https://mg.co.za/article/2001-03-23-the-height-of-hypocrisy/ 

https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/SNSep83.pdf 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNNov83.pdf 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNOct80.pdf 

https://staging.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/pam19870826.026.009.583.pdf

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/48870988/volume-36-number-07-university-of-the-witwatersrand 

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38832258/volume-36-number-13

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/293602.html?c=on 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/pam19811200.026.009.580.pdf 

https://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/the-wrecking-crew/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/06/world/4-rebel-units-sign-anti-soviet-pact.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/10/world/reporter-s-notebook-angola-s-children-of-war.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20060128022735/http://www.alternet.org/story/13134/

https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/1996/3.pdf 

https://www.georgeherald.com/News/Article/Local-News/robert-hall-pioneer-in-medical-equipment-dies-20170711 

https://mg.co.za/article/1996-04-04-noseweek-case-takes-a-new-turn/

https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/73gould.pdf

https://www.salon.com/2005/08/17/abramoff_2/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/09/movies/south-africa-helps-us-film-makers-in-namibia-with-troops-and-trucks.html 

https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress

Parts 5 &amp; 6 of the South Africa arc.
The Whites' Last Stand
Original Air Date: 4.3.25
In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century.&nbsp;
Sources:
<a href="https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/">https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/</a>
<a href="https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/">https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong</a>
Guelke, Adrian. &ldquo;Political Violence and the South African Transition.&rdquo; Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 59&ndash;68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30001810.&nbsp;
<a href="https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme">https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/">https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkI">https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkI</a>
<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm">https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185912/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/newsticker/rechte-in-suedafrika-rekrutieren-internationale-soeldner---politikermord-lautet-ein-auftrag-die-killer-kamen-von-der-reeperbahn,10917074,8820188.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185912/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/newsticker/rechte-in-suedafrika-rekrutieren-internationale-soeldner---politikermord-lautet-ein-auftrag-die-killer-kamen-von-der-reeperbahn,10917074,8820188.html</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=2">https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=2</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/">https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/</a>
<a href="https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9708/s970821c.htm">https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9708/s970821c.htm</a>
<a href="https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans%5Cpta/2derby1.htm">https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans%5Cpta/2derby1.htm</a>
Death of Apartheid: The Whites&rsquo; Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates.
---
The Jamboree in Jamba
This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.
Sources:
Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.
Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America&rsquo;s Most Notorious Lobbyist. WND Books, 2011.
Easton, Nina. Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade. Simon &amp; Schuster, 2000.
Ivon, David. &ldquo;Touting for South Africa: International Freedom Foundation.&rdquo; Covert Action Information Bulletin, 1989.
Blumenthal, Sidney (December 1983). "Let Lehrman Be Reagan". The New Republic.
Cachalia, Firoz and Mervyn Shear. WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era. Wits University Press, 2022.
<a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/">https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-13-atrocious-crimes-apartheid-hitmans-brutal-confessions-serve-as-a-warning-for-south-africans/">https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-13-atrocious-crimes-apartheid-hitmans-brutal-confessions-serve-as-a-warning-for-south-africans/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://mg.co.za/article/2008-05-29-the-spy-who-lost-it/">https://mg.co.za/article/2008-05-29-the-spy-who-lost-it/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://mg.co.za/article/2001-03-23-the-height-of-hypocrisy/">https://mg.co.za/article/2001-03-23-the-height-of-hypocrisy/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/SNSep83.pdf">https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/SNSep83.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNNov83.pdf">https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNNov83.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNOct80.pdf">https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNOct80.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://staging.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/pam19870826.026.009.583.pdf">https://staging.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/pam19870826.026.009.583.pdf</a>
<a href="https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme">https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme</a>
<a href="https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/48870988/volume-36-number-07-university-of-the-witwatersrand">https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/48870988/volume-36-number-07-university-of-the-witwatersrand</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38832258/volume-36-number-13">https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38832258/volume-36-number-13</a>
<a href="https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/293602.html?c=on">https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/293602.html?c=on</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/pam19811200.026.009.580.pdf">https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/pam19811200.026.009.580.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/the-wrecking-crew/">https://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/the-wrecking-crew/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/06/world/4-rebel-units-sign-anti-soviet-pact.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/06/world/4-rebel-units-sign-anti-soviet-pact.html</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/10/world/reporter-s-notebook-angola-s-children-of-war.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/10/world/reporter-s-notebook-angola-s-children-of-war.html</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060128022735/http://www.alternet.org/story/13134/">https://web.archive.org/web/20060128022735/http://www.alternet.org/story/13134/</a>
<a href="https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/1996/3.pdf">https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/1996/3.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.georgeherald.com/News/Article/Local-News/robert-hall-pioneer-in-medical-equipment-dies-20170711">https://www.georgeherald.com/News/Article/Local-News/robert-hall-pioneer-in-medical-equipment-dies-20170711</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://mg.co.za/article/1996-04-04-noseweek-case-takes-a-new-turn/">https://mg.co.za/article/1996-04-04-noseweek-case-takes-a-new-turn/</a>
<a href="https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/73gould.pdf">https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/73gould.pdf</a>
<a href="https://www.salon.com/2005/08/17/abramoff_2/">https://www.salon.com/2005/08/17/abramoff_2/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/09/movies/south-africa-helps-us-film-makers-in-namibia-with-troops-and-trucks.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/09/movies/south-africa-helps-us-film-makers-in-namibia-with-troops-and-trucks.html</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress">https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress</a>

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CZM Rewind: The Whites' Last Stand & The Jamboree in Jamba

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