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![[A.W.B. flag]](../images/z/za}awb.gif)
The three black 7s (arranged in a fashion similar to the Three
Legs of Man but rotated so that the top seven is upright) is the emblem
of the
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) (Afrikaner Resistance Movement in
English) which a right-wing, neo-Nazi organisation) which appears
on its flag (on a white disc at the centre of a red field).
Theo Stylianides, Nov 1996
Notice the white disk is closer to the hoist (like the national
flag of Nazi Germany and unlike most modern
neonazi flags, which have centered discs). I would have expected this
flag to be orange, not red.
António Martins, 18 Apr 1998
[This flag and its symbol are] now also being used by European Nazis
as they have volunteered to fight in a race war in South Africa.
António Martins, 27 May 1998, quoting
Nazism
Exposed | Flags and Symbols (Pål’s site)
Illustrations of the two AWB flags can be found in my article "Flags
of Political Organisations in South Africa"SAVA
Newsletter 2/91, Nov. 1991, p. 7.
Theo Stylianides, Nov 1996
![[AWB’s alternative flag (in Transvaal)]](../images/z/za}awbtv.gif)
by António Martins, 27 Oct 1999
The Transvaal
vierkleur with
3 black sevens on the white stripe seems to be a once-off flag used on
some or other occasion by followers of the AWB.
Theo Stylianides, Nov 1996
The "777" might be like this or in one of the AWB's usual arrangements:
swastika
or
1+2.
António Martins, 29 Apr 1999
Recently Antonio Martins posted the gif za}awbtv. The three "7" are
arranged horizontally. In the image that I have the 7 are arranged in form
of "Trinacria" (i.e. emblem of Isle of Man or Sicily).
I found the following note:
"In 1970, Eugene Terre'Blanche with 6 other kindred souls founded the
Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB). From this committee of seven, the
AWB emblem, "Three Sevens", was created in contrast with the number 666
of the satanic forces".
Jaume Ollé, 14 Mar 1999
This symbol is clearly a variation of the Nazi swastika, just one leg
less -- regardless of any other "symbolism" provided for it.
António Martins, 16 Apr 1999
![[BWB’s first flag]](../images/z/za}bwb1.gif)
by António Martins, 04 Oct 1998
This was the flag of Boere Weersdandsbeweging (BWB) (Boer Resistance
Movement in English) which was black with white cross fimbrated red; in the center of the
cross is a white circle fimbrated red with three black "7"s. The BWB was initially
led by Eddie von Maltitz and subsequently by Andrew Ford. (I don’t know
if this organisation still exists).
Theo Stylianides, Nov 1996
The flag described above (black field with a white cross fimbriated
red (George, not Scandinavian); three black upright sevens, one above and
two below, on a white disc fimbriated red at the centre) was the original
flag of the BWB. A colour photograph of a crowd waving this flag appeared
in the Sunday Times, Johannesburg during 1990 (unfortunately I don’t have
the exact date).
Theo Stylianides, Nov 1996
![[BWB’s second flag]](../images/z/za}bwb2.gif)
by António Martins, 04 Oct 1998
When Andrew Ford took over the leadership the flag was replaced by a
similar one instead of having the three 7s, bears the letters BWB n white arranged in a triangular fashion (pointing downwards) on a similarly directed
black triangle.
Theo Stylianides, Nov 1996
Illustrations of the two BWB flags can be found in my article "Flags
of Political Organisations in South Africa"SAVA
Newsletter 2/91, Nov. 1991, p. 7.
Theo Stylianides, Nov 1996
![[African Student Federation flag]](../images/z/za}asf.gif)
by António Martins, 18 Apr 1998
The odal rune is used the by
the Afrikaner Student Federation.
António Martins, 18 Apr 1998