Searchlight exposes 'racial terrorism link' in the BNP

Searchlight, a researcher into facism and racism says it has exposed the apartheid terrorism link behind Solidarity, the British National Party's trade union.

Solidarity has cancelled its re-launch and first annual meeting in London tomorrow, citing 'public order considerations' but Searchlight said, "This is just a smokescreen. They are running scared."

Searchlight had started asking questions about the South African apartheid connection and the BNP's 'secret think-tank'.

Solidarity's website is hosted by Dr Lambertus Nieuwhof, who runs Herefordshire-based company, 'Vidronic Online'. The company has taken over most of the BNP's internet operations, including the party's website for Barking and Dagenham, where the BNP had 12 councillors elected last May.

Searchlight has revealed that Nieuwhof, known in the BNP as Bep, is part of the 'secret think-tank', a small inner circle of men whose identity is unknown to both the wider membership and the general public. Their task is to form policy for Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, and give the party intellectual underpinning.

Nieuwhof, 35, is an immigrant with a past record as a white racist fighter.

Fifteen years ago South Africa was in the process of dismantling apartheid. The white supremacists of the terrorist Afrikaner Weerstand Beweging (AWB) were trying to prevent the move towards majority rule and to restore the racist system. Three men had planted a home-made bomb at the Calvary Church School in protest against the school's decision to become racially mixed. When the bomb failed to go off, one of them lost his nerve, gave himself up to the police and turned in his two associates, one of which was Nieuwhof. At the end of the resulting court case he received a derisory 12-month suspended prison sentence.

Leaving South Africa Nieuwhof set off for Britain, where he came into contact with Arthur Kemp, another South African extremist exile, who had been arrested for the murder of Chris Hani, a close colleague of Nelson Mandela, in April 1993 but released without charge. Kemp had been named by Clive Derby-Lewis, a far-right South African MP who is now serving life imprisonment for setting up Hani's murder, as the author of a hit list of prominent anti-apartheid leaders.

Kemp too has become influential in the BNP. His articles appear on the BNP website and his 586-page tome March of the Titans comes highly recommended on the BNP's booklist. The book propounds the view that "all civilisations rise and fall according to their racial homogeneity and nothing else."

Kemp still supports apartheid. In an article in November 2004 on South Africa under the ANC he complained that: "… the Tory/Labour old gang parties, were all complicit in ensuring the creation of the new South Africa, working as hard as they could to bring about the downfall of the previous White government."

Gerry Gable, publisher of Searchlight, said, "The handmaidens of South Africa's murderous apartheid regime are unfortunately alive and well and pulling the strings in the British National Party."

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