# Watch, The pipeline between US white supremacists and the SA right > Monica Huggett linked US white supremacists to South Africa’s farm murder movement 14 years before Ernst Roets’ group. - Title: Watch, The pipeline between US white supremacists and the SA… - Summary: Monica Huggett linked US white supremacists to South Africa’s farm murder movement 14 years before Ernst Roets’ group. Monica Huggett, a South African white… - Keywords: monica huggett, awb, kku klux klan, lex libertas, afriforum, south africa, us white supremacists, farm murders, white genocide, identity evropa, eugene terreblanche, suidlanders - Source: Daily Maverick — https://dailymaverick.co.za/video/2026-10-29-watch-the-pipeline-between-us-white-supremacists-and-the-sa-right - Author: Rebecca Davis - Published: 2026-10-29T19:30:00+00:00 - Read time: 2 min - Topics: monica huggett, awb, kku klux klan, lex libertas, afriforum, south africa, us white supremacists, farm murders, white genocide, identity evropa, eugene terreblanche, suidlanders ## Monica Huggett’s story A Kempton Park woman linked US white supremacists to South Africa’s farm murder movement 14 years before Ernst Roets’ group. > Decades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis, a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause. ## Huggett’s 2012 US campaign In February 2012, Huggett helped mobilise small-scale demonstrations in 13 US sites under the South Africa Project. > In 2012, 14 years before Ernst Roets’ group Lex Libertas would set up a farm murder protest in almost exactly the same spot in Washington, Huggett had helped mobilise small-scale demonstrations in this and 12 other sites across the USA under the umbrella of a campaign called the South Africa Project. ## Huggett’s early activism Huggett joined the Wit Kommando in 1980, a white terrorist group targeting racial integration advocates. > In 1980, Huggett emerges in media reports from the time as a member of the Wit Kommando: a tiny white terrorist group whose targets included thinktanks and university academics associated with promoting racial integration. ## Huggett’s 1980 arrest Huggett was arrested in 1980 with weapons including hand grenades and machine guns. > When Huggett and other members of the group were arrested, police found an arsenal of weapons including hand grenades, landmines, rifles, a machine gun and thousands of rounds of ammunition. ## Huggett’s KKK ties Huggett was a member of the American Ku Klux Klan and obtained bomb-making manuals from KKK contacts. > She told the court that she was a member of both the Wit Kommando and the American Ku Klux Klan, and had obtained bomb-making manuals from her American KKK contacts. ## Huggett’s AWB role Huggett became the AWB’s only woman to serve prison time for white nationalist activities. > She was later described as the only woman to have served prison time for her involvement in the AWB. ## Huggett’s 1990s activities Huggett recruited mercenaries for the AWB during South Africa’s transition to democracy. > Huggett placed ads in European fascist magazines to recruit mercenaries to assist the AWB in violent resistance to the transition to democracy. ## Huggett’s 1994 arrest Huggett was arrested in 1994 after a shootout with police in which a German mercenary was killed. > But in March 1994 the operation began coming apart after a shootout with police in which German mercenary Thomas Kunz was killed. ## Huggett’s US move Huggett moved to Louisiana in 2012 after her American husband’s death. > Despite the perils Huggett apparently believed white South Africans faced, she moved back home to live in Kempton Park after the death of her American husband in 2012. ## Huggett’s 2011 US role Huggett addressed the Aryan Nations World Congress on white genocide in South Africa in 2011. > By 2011 Huggett was addressing the Aryan Nations World Congress on the alleged “white genocide” in South Africa in her AWB uniform. ## Huggett’s 2012 charity Huggett ran the Living Waters Foundation, which only provided food and aid to white South Africans. > There she ran a charity called the Living Waters Foundation, notorious for only providing assistance and food parcels to whites. ## Huggett’s 2025 status Huggett is still alive as of 2025, with online comments posted by her. > Conger found online comments seemingly posted by Huggett as late as 2025. ## Suidlanders leader’s view Suidlanders leader Simon Roche recommended Huggett as a white nationalist figure in 2018. > Simon Roche, the leader of far-right local group the Suidlanders, was asked on an American neo-Nazi podcast in 2018 which South African organisation people should support if they did not trust his own. He recommended Huggett, describing her as a “very distinguished, decent lady who has fought for white nationalism”. ## US white supremacist propaganda US white supremacists claim white South Africans face disproportionate black-on-white violence. > Research shows that one of the most important themes in American white supremacist propaganda for centuries has been the idea that whites are disproportionately the victims of murder by black people, that these attacks are always motivated only by racial hatred, and that the media conspires to conceal the real scale of the crisis. ## US crime data refutes claims US data shows over 80% of white murder victims are killed by whites, not black people. > FBI and Department of Justice figures show that more than 80% of white murder victims are killed by whites. ## South Africa’s farm murder issue White farmers in South Africa face higher crime rates from black perpetrators than in the US. > This is where South Africa comes in, because here there is one particular demographic sub-set - white farmers - who are indeed crime victims, often at the hands of black perpetrators, to an extent which is useful for the argument of US white supremacists. ## Breivik’s South Africa references Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Breivik referenced South Africa 44 times in his 2011 manifesto. > Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in his 2011 Oslo attack, wrote a manifesto in which I found at least 44 references to South Africa specifically focused on the issue of farm murders, lamenting “the diabolical way blacks are persecuting whites and massacring the Boers”. ## Identity Evropa’s 2018 protest Identity Evropa staged a farm murder protest outside South Africa’s embassy in Washington in 2018. > In 2018, US white supremacist group Identity Evropa staged a farm murder demonstration outside South Africa’s embassy in Washington which had obvious similarities to the 3000 White Crosses on Washington event which Ernst Roets’ group Lex Libertas would stage in September 2026. ## Identity Evropa’s 2019 rebrand Identity Evropa rebranded as the American Identity Movement in 2019 to appear less extreme. > In 2019, the group’s leader Patrick Casey attempted to rebrand Identity Evropa as the more neutral-sounding American Identity Movement, giving explicit instructions to members that they needed to clean up their image in order to gain access to politicians and media. ## Key takeaway Monica Huggett, a South African white supremacist, helped connect US neo-Nazis with South Africa’s farm murder activists starting in 1980.