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CZM Rewind: The Whites' Last Stand & The Jamboree in Jamba

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Parts 5 & 6 of the South Africa arc.

The Whites' Last Stand

Original Air Date: 4.3.25

In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century. 

Sources:

https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/

https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong

Guelke, Adrian. “Political Violence and the South African Transition.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 59–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30001810. 

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme 

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkI

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html 

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185912/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/newsticker/rechte-in-suedafrika-rekrutieren-internationale-soeldner---politikermord-lautet-ein-auftrag-die-killer-kamen-von-der-reeperbahn,10917074,8820188.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 

https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/

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Death of Apartheid: The Whites’ Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates.

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The Jamboree in Jamba

This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.

Sources:

Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.

Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist. WND Books, 2011.

Easton, Nina. Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade. Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Ivon, David. “Touting for South Africa: International Freedom Foundation.” Covert Action Information Bulletin, 1989.

Blumenthal, Sidney (December 1983). "Let Lehrman Be Reagan". The New Republic.

Cachalia, Firoz and Mervyn Shear. WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era. Wits University Press, 2022.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/ 

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-13-atrocious-crimes-apartheid-hitmans-brutal-confessions-serve-as-a-warning-for-south-africans/ 

https://mg.co.za/article/2008-05-29-the-spy-who-lost-it/ 

https://mg.co.za/article/2001-03-23-the-height-of-hypocrisy/ 

https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/SNSep83.pdf 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNNov83.pdf 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNOct80.pdf 

https://staging.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/pam19870826.026.009.583.pdf

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/48870988/volume-36-number-07-university-of-the-witwatersrand 

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38832258/volume-36-number-13

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https://www.salon.com/2005/08/17/abramoff_2/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/09/movies/south-africa-helps-us-film-makers-in-namibia-with-troops-and-trucks.html 

https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed human.

0:06.0

CoolZo Media.

0:13.5

Hello, everyone.

0:15.2

Molly here.

0:16.6

Welcome back to the third of four installments

0:19.0

of the holiday reruns here on Weird Little Guys.

0:22.5

Since Christmas and New Year's Day are both Thursdays this year, I was going to have to run two reruns in a row.

0:29.4

So instead of picking two random reruns, I'm using this opportunity to run my favorite mini-series of the year.

0:36.1

The eight episodes I wrote back in the spring

0:38.4

about the international networks of right-wing extremists

0:40.9

who were trying to hold on to apartheid South Africa.

0:45.2

Last week, episodes one and two ran on Tuesday,

0:48.5

and episodes three and four ran on Thursday.

0:51.8

That makes this episode's five and six of the series. The episode The White's Last

0:57.9

Stand originally aired on April 3rd, and Jamboree and Jamba came out a week later on April 10th.

1:05.0

Listening back to these episodes now, it's very funny that I kept apologizing for how long the series was and promising that it was almost over.

1:14.1

I know you're listening for the story and not my little personal asides, but they do make for a strange sort of time capsule.

1:22.7

I was in a rush this week because I'd spent a couple of days in court. And I realize now I never did

1:29.5

get back around to telling you about that trial. But it was one of the trials in the Unite the Right

1:34.8

Torch March prosecutions that I was talking about a few weeks ago. There were episodes recently

1:40.4

about Tyler Dykes and Augustus Invictus. Two of the other men charged for that march,

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