Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader Eugene Terre'Blanche says right-wing groups will plot their future plans at a Ventersdorp meeting next Saturday.

In an interview with the Mail & Guardian newspaper on Friday, he said he wanted to unite 23 right-wing organisations under one umbrella in order to take the fight of "the free Afrikaner" to the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

He said he had been inundated with calls to reactivate his movement.

"The circumstances in the country demanded it. The white man in South Africa is realising that his salvation lies in self-government in territories paid for by his ancestors."

But taking up arms to secure its own republic was not an option.

"For now there are other options we have to exercise first. We have a strong case to take to the United Nations," said Terre'Blanche, citing a list of land deals between the Voortrekkers and "black kings" in the 18th century.

"We haven't decided on the lawyers that will take up our cause. We might even get Johann Kriegler," he added.

Terre' Blanche's AWB was a force to be reckoned with in the 1980s and 1990s, but support has dwindled, and even more so after his jail time for assaulting a black petrol attendant and the attempted murder of a security guard.

He refused to disclosed the AWB's current membership.

"It is strategic. You do not disclose your spies in a cold war," said Terre'Blanche.

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