Kommandokorps is an Afrikaner survivalist group active in South Africa. [3] The leader is Colonel Franz Jooste, who served with the South African Defence Force during the apartheid era. [4]
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The Kommandokorps organises paramilitary camps, which are attended by youths between the ages of 13 and 19. [3] The teenagers are taught self-defence and how to combat a perceived black enemy. [4] Following an infantry-style curriculum, they are lectured on racial differences, such as a claim that black people had a smaller cerebral cortex than whites, and are made to use a modern South African flag as a doormat. [3] The camp is located in the veld outside the town of Carolina, Mpumalanga, about 230 km east of Johannesburg. [5]
Kommandokorps has been criticised by the Afrikaner lobby group AfriForum. [3] The Democratic Alliance called for the group to be closed, and its activities investigated by the Human Rights Commission. [6] A group of Kommandokorps volunteers attended the funeral of the former Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terreblanche. [7] In 2011, the group signed a saamstaanverdrag (unity pact) with the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging and the Suidlanders, a large group which advocates for white rights in post-apartheid South Africa and publicizes its belief that there is an ongoing genocide against whites, in particular farmers, in the country. [5]
“Fatherland” is a full-length documentary produced and directed by Tarryn Lee Crossman that explores the experiences of young men in the Kommandokorps camps. [8]
