{
  "id": 11861272,
  "title": "TIES THAT BIND: The pipeline between US white supremacists and the SA right",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/ties-that-bind-the-pipeline-between-us-white-supremacists-and-the-sa",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-04T06:26:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Maverick",
    "slug": "daily-maverick",
    "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-10-04-the-pipeline-between-us-white-supremacists-and-the-sa-right/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Monica Huggett, born in Kempton Park, emerged as a key figure in connecting white supremacists in the United States with the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) in South Africa. Huggett's story began in 1980 when she was part of the Wit Kommando, a small pro-apartheid terrorist group. She was arrested and found to have bomb-making materials, implicating her in transnational connections.\n\nIn the following decade, Huggett reappeared as a committed supporter of Eugene Terre'blanche's AWB. She actively recruited mercenaries for the group, advertised for them in European fascist magazines, and even housed and organized them upon their arrival in South Africa. In 1994, tensions escalated with a shootout involving a German mercenary, leading to Huggett's arrest with a stockpile of weapons.\n\nAfter serving an undisclosed prison term, Huggett fled to the United States in the early 1990s. She eventually settled in Louisiana, where she married Jim Stone, a former member of David Duke's Ku Klux Klan. Huggett became an integral part of the Louisiana white supremacist community, maintaining her AWB uniform and addressing far-right gatherings. In 2011, she launched the South Africa Project, aiming to bring attention to the supposed \"white genocide\" in South Africa.\n\nDespite the distance between Kempton Park, South Africa, and Louisiana, Huggett's ideological connection remained strong. In 2012, she returned to her hometown, where she operated a charity, the Living Waters Foundation, that provided aid exclusively to whites. In 2018, the leader of another far-right group recommended Huggett to a neo-Nazi podcast, maintaining her prominent position within the extreme right movement.",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [
    "Monica Huggett linked US white supremacists with SA's Afrikaner Weerstandsbewegung (AWB).",
    "She recruited mercenaries, advertised in fascist magazines, and housed AWB members in SA.",
    "After prison, Huggett moved to Louisiana, became part of local white supremacist community."
  ],
  "editors_take": "Monica Huggett's case reveals a lasting link between US and South African white supremacist groups, showing how individuals can maintain and evolve their extremist ties across national borders and over time.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}