{"id":511593,"date":"2010-04-03T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16711557.post-7798624694945992854"},"modified":"2010-04-03T20:23:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T00:23:59","slug":"white-far-right-racist-in-south-africa-eugene-terreblanche-is-killedin-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/511593","title":{"rendered":"White Far-right, Racist in South Africa, Eugene Terreblanche, is Killed\nin South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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White far-right, racist leader in South Africa, Eugene Terreblanche, was killed on his farm involving a dispute over unpaid wages.<\/a>
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Sunday, April 04, 2010
03:01 Mecca time, 00:01 GMT<\/p>\n

S African far-right leader killed<\/p>\n

Terreblanche was released from prison in 2004 after serving a sentence for attempted murder<\/p>\n

Eugene Terreblanche, the South African white far-right leader, who fought to preserve apartheid in the early 1990s, has been beaten and hacked to death at his farm.<\/p>\n

Police said Terreblanche was attacked at his farm outside of Ventersdorp, on Saturday, allegedly in a dispute over unpaid wages, the Johannesburg Star newspaper has reported.<\/p>\n

Two workers, a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, were arrested and charged with murder, the Star reported.<\/p>\n

‘Hacked to death’<\/p>\n

“He was hacked to death while he was taking a nap,” one family friend, a member of Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), told the Reuters news agency, requesting anonymity.
profile<\/p>\n

Local media quoted another party member as saying he was beaten with pipes and machetes.<\/p>\n

“Terreblanche’s body was found on the bed with facial and head injuries,” the AFP news agency quoted a police spokesman as saying.<\/p>\n

Terreblanche, 69, had kept a low public profile since his release in 2004 from prison after serving three years of a five-year term for for attempted murder.<\/p>\n

He had lived in relative obscurity despite the revival of his party two years ago and recent efforts to form a united front among white far-right groups.<\/p>\n

The killing comes at a time of worries over increasing racial polarisation in South Africa, heightened by a row over the singing of a song by the head of the ruling ANC party’s youth league with the lyrics “Kill the Boer”.<\/p>\n

Terreblanche always described himself as a Boer.<\/p>\n

He had founded the white supremacist Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) party in 1970, to oppose what he regarded as the liberal policies of the then-South African leader, John Vorster.<\/p>\n

Terreblanche wanted to create all-white states within South Africa in which blacks would only be allowed as guest workers.<\/p>\n

‘Kill the Boer’<\/p>\n

He threatened to take the country by force if the white government capitulated to the African National Council.<\/p>\n

Ebrahim Fakir, an African analyst, told Al Jazeera that it is unlikely Terreblanche’s political cause will “necessarily die with him”.<\/p>\n

“It may lose some of its momentum; It may of course lose some of the fiery rhetoric that [Terreblanche] was known for in arguing for Afrikaner rights.<\/p>\n

“Whether it loses momentum or not is a moot point, quite simply because it never gathered large amounts of steam in the first place. It didn’t have much social support even amongst Africaners.<\/p>\n

“There is no doubt that Terreblanche’s death will exacerbate racial tensions in the immediate area in which he lived.<\/p>\n

“But you will have this kind of t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate going on with black South Africans feeling a sense of victory, of rising above oppression and sending perhaps a not so subtle message that after the accumulation of years of racism is something which will be met in an equally brutal way,” he said.<\/p>\n

After the white government conceded, the ANC overwhelmingly won 1994 elections and has won every election since with more than 60 per cent of votes.<\/p>\n

But the AWB – whose flag resembles the Nazi Swastika – was revived in 2008.<\/p>\n

The Afrikaners are descendants of the Boers, the first whites who arrived in South Africa 300 years ago and avoided assimilation with English-speaking settlers.<\/p>\n

Their short-lived republics, in the Orange Free State, Transvaal and northern Natal, were broken up after the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War.<\/p>\n

Terreblanche wanted to reconstitute them.<\/p>\n

Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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