Insurgency Overview Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) is an Afrikaans-South African far-right group fighting for an independent Afrikaner Republic. Consisting of approximately 6,000 members (as of 2016), AWB can be described as a white-supremacist, Christian nationalist group. Founded in 1973 due to the gradual dissolution of apartheid-era politics, its founder – Eugène Terre’Blanche – opposed what he perceived as the oppression of the white minority in South Africa.