The Afrikaner Volksfront or AVF (Afrikaner People's Front) was a separatist umbrella organisation uniting a number of right-wing Afrikaner organisations in South Africa in the transitional period while multi-party negotiations were held in the run-up to the democratic elections on 27 April1994. Afrikaners are an ethnic group primarily associated with Southern Africa and the Afrikaans language. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
The AVF President was Dr Ferdi Hartzenberg, leader of the Conservative Party, and the chief secretary was Colonel Piet Botha. Ferdinand Hartzenberg (born 1936) is a South African politician and was the last leader of the Conservative Party in South Africa between 1993 and its merger with the Freedom Front in 2004. ... The Conservative Party of South Africa (Konserwatiewe Party van Suid-Afrika in Afrikaans) was a far-right party formed in 1982 as a breakaway from the ruling National Party. ...
After the election, the AVF established a Volksrepubliek werkkomitee (People's Republic working committee) to gather information and put the ideal of Afrikaner self-determination into practice. This committee recommended a Volkstaat solution. Volkstaat (Afrikaans for Peoples state) is a proposal for the establishment of an independent state or autonomous homeland in South Africa for the Afrikaner minority to obtain self determination. ...
The AVF was disbanded in November 1996.
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First Report of the Volk's Republic Works Committee of the Afrikaner Volksfront
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In 1998 Volksfront had grown almost too large for its constitutional structure and conflicts between chapters and frequent street actions and jailing of members was having its effect on the cohesion of the organization.
Volksfront for 3 years was unheard of and silent and all of the lesser quality elements were expelled, some joining other organizations and some disappearing from the racialist movement all together.
Volksfront Germany quickly became one of the most active and best organized chapters attending frequent Nationalist demonstrations, hold activities such as caring for the neglected cemetaries of German WWII soldiers and having cultural events such as traditional solstice celebrations.
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