Pro-apartheid expats club that calls Mandela 'evil terrorist' makes headlines in UK

A UK-based club for South African and Zimbabwean expats seemingly believes former president Nelson Mandela was "evil", a "terrorist", and should have been hanged.

Pro-apartheid expats club that calls Mandela 'evil terrorist' makes headlines in UK 4c3d0a9d6a434f19968e48bd20a5fb13

Pro-apartheid expats club that calls Mandela 'evil terrorist' makes headlines in UK 4c3d0a9d6a434f19968e48bd20a5fb13

On its webpage, the Springbok Club displays the flag of apartheid South Africa and still refers to Zimbabwe as Rhodesia.

It also has a penchant for conspiracy theories, particularly relating to the alt-right concept of "white genocide".

The club is making headlines in the UK after a leading UK Independence Party (UKIP) MEP, Stuart Agnew, made a speech at the club.

UKIP is a hard Eurosceptic, right-wing political party in the UK.

Agnew told The Guardian he did not support apartheid, but there was a possible argument to establish a "homeland" for white South Africans.

According to The Guardian, Agnew's speech on April 6 was made at an event marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ian Smith, the last prime minister of white-governed Rhodesia.

David Lawrence, a researcher at Hope Not Hate, which monitors far-right groups, told The Guardian: "UKIP's continued drift further and further far right is no longer a surprise but it is still shocking. The fact that an elected MEP is addressing this sort of vile organisation shows the scale of the challenge we face."

The club's aims, according to its membership application form, are to:

Bring together those southern Africans living in exile and others who support the aims and objectives of the organisation on a regular social and informative basis;
inform all those of a similar background still living in the African continent of our support for their rights and liberties, and our concern for the current dangers which they may be facing; and
lobby the powers that be in the outside world about the anarchic state of current day southern Africa, and to advocate that steps be taken to restore civilised rule.

In a section called "TERRORIST WATCH!", it displays a poster with an image of a young Mandela and the words: "Hang Nelson Mandela and all ANC terrorists they are butchers".

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Pro-apartheid expats club that calls Mandela 'evil terrorist' makes headlines in UK

Pro-apartheid expats club that calls Mandela 'evil terrorist' makes headlines in UK

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