Far-right activist Arthur Kemp who runs the British National Party's (BNP) merchandising arm, Excalibur, had a link to the killer of ANC leader Chris Hani.
Hani was gunned down by a Polish anti-Communist named Janusz Walus in the racially mixed suburb of Boksburg, SA, on April 10, 1993. The assassination was part of a right-wing plot to derail the negotiations to end apartheid.
Kemp, along with a number of other people were arrested in connection with the murder.
Kemp was in possession of a list of names that had the appearance of a "hitlist". Nelson Mandela was the first entry, Chris Hani was number three. Information drawn from the list of names was found at the home of Janusz Walus.
During the trial Kemp admitted to producing the list of names, but denied knowingly supplying a hitlist. He was eventually released without charge. He moved to the UK in 1996.
Kemp joined the BNP and is currently regarded as a key policy adviser to party leader Nick Griffin. He also helps to edit the party's website.
You don't have to look far for evidence of Kemp's racist beliefs. He is the author of March of the Titans: A History of the White Race - a ridiculous book that includes Cro-Magnon Man and Nefertiti as representatives of the white race. Pseudo-scholar Kemp clearly associates whiteness with civilization, and believes that the breakdown in "racial homogeneity" spells the end of his racist version of civilization.
Kemp worked for Die Patriot, a newspaper associated with the extremist South African Conservative party. Articles by Kemp have also appeared on the Stormfront website, run by Don Black, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
According to the anti-fascist website Searchlight, the heaviest traffic to the BNP website comes from South Africa. It says that the BNP is targeting wealthy white South Africans for donations.
Searchlight: "Many of them may be friends and relations of the growing number of South African BNP members, of whom Arthur Kemp, editor of the BNP website and in charge of the ideological training of the party's 250 or so elite activists, is the most prominent."
The BNP has been attempting to present itself as a mainstream party in the run-up to the Euro elections in which the party is hoping to secure its first MEP.
Kemp's connections give the lie to their 'mainstream' aspirations, as do recent racist comments by leader Griffin who said that black and Asian Britons "do not exist" and should be described as "racial foreigners."
Related Guardian article here.
Also The Independent here.
Hani was gunned down by a Polish anti-Communist named Janusz Walus in the racially mixed suburb of Boksburg, SA, on April 10, 1993. The assassination was part of a right-wing plot to derail the negotiations to end apartheid.
Kemp, along with a number of other people were arrested in connection with the murder.
Kemp was in possession of a list of names that had the appearance of a "hitlist". Nelson Mandela was the first entry, Chris Hani was number three. Information drawn from the list of names was found at the home of Janusz Walus.
Chris Hani
During the trial Kemp admitted to producing the list of names, but denied knowingly supplying a hitlist. He was eventually released without charge. He moved to the UK in 1996.
Kemp joined the BNP and is currently regarded as a key policy adviser to party leader Nick Griffin. He also helps to edit the party's website.
You don't have to look far for evidence of Kemp's racist beliefs. He is the author of March of the Titans: A History of the White Race - a ridiculous book that includes Cro-Magnon Man and Nefertiti as representatives of the white race. Pseudo-scholar Kemp clearly associates whiteness with civilization, and believes that the breakdown in "racial homogeneity" spells the end of his racist version of civilization.
Kemp worked for Die Patriot, a newspaper associated with the extremist South African Conservative party. Articles by Kemp have also appeared on the Stormfront website, run by Don Black, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
According to the anti-fascist website Searchlight, the heaviest traffic to the BNP website comes from South Africa. It says that the BNP is targeting wealthy white South Africans for donations.
Searchlight: "Many of them may be friends and relations of the growing number of South African BNP members, of whom Arthur Kemp, editor of the BNP website and in charge of the ideological training of the party's 250 or so elite activists, is the most prominent."
The BNP has been attempting to present itself as a mainstream party in the run-up to the Euro elections in which the party is hoping to secure its first MEP.
Kemp's connections give the lie to their 'mainstream' aspirations, as do recent racist comments by leader Griffin who said that black and Asian Britons "do not exist" and should be described as "racial foreigners."
Related Guardian article here.
Also The Independent here.
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