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Kommandokorps is an Afrikaner survivalist group active in

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. The leader is Colonel Franz Jooste, who served with the

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during the

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era. The group organises paramilitary camps, which are attended by youths between the ages of 13 and 19. The teenagers are taught self-defence and how to combat a perceived black enemy. Following an infantry-style curriculum, they are lectured on racial differences, such as a claim that black people had a smaller

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than whites, and are made to use a modern South African flag as a doormat. The camp is located in the

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outside the town of

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, about 230 km east of

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. ''Kommandokorps'' has been criticised by the Afrikaner lobby group

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. The Democratic Alliance called for the group to be closed, and its activities investigated by the

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. A group of Kommandokorps volunteers attended the funeral of the former

Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (), meaning "Afrikaner Resistance Movement", commonly known by its abbreviation AWB, is an Afrikaner nationalist paramilitary organisation in South Africa. Since its founding in 1973 by Eugène Terre'Blanche and ...

leader

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. In 2011, the group signed a ''saamstaanverdrag'' (unity pact) with the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging and the Suidlanders, a large group which advocates for white rights in post-apartheid South Africa and publicizes its belief that there is an ongoing genocide against whites, in particular farmers, in the country. “Fatherland” is a full-length documentary produced and directed by Tarryn Lee Crossman that explores the experiences of young men in the Kommandokorps camps.

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Official website
(in Afrikaans) {{Political history of South Africa Far-right politics in South Africa Paramilitary organisations based in South Africa White supremacy in South Africa Afrikaner nationalism Boer nationalism Military youth groups

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