Terreblanche killed
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So this is a recipe for disaster. Hopefully nothing bad will come from this. I first came across this guy after watching a short documentary. I remember thinking to myself how disturbed a man could be to think of the things he was talking about. He also had a small appearance on that show whose name currently slips my mind.. where the guy goes around documenting touchy subjects.. (Edit: Louis Theroux)
http://www.smh.com.au/world/call-for-ca ... utostart=1
JOHANNESBURG: The South African President, Jacob Zuma, has called for calm over the killing of the white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche.
The killing has caused shock waves at a delicate time for South Africa, just 10 weeks before it is to host the soccer World Cup. The government is trying to reassure tourists over security fears and to play down recent racial tensions.
Police say Mr Terreblanche was hacked and bludgeoned to death after an argument with two workers on his farm outside Ventersdorp in North West Province.
Mr Terreblanche, 69, was the leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB, formed in the 1970s, which bitterly opposed black majority rule.
Mr Zuma condemned the killing and urged South Africans to refrain from statements inciting racial hatred.
The AWB said it would avenge his killing but urged members not to react immediately.
The group's secretary-general, Andre Visagie, said yesterday that it would meet on May 1. ''We will decide upon our actions to avenge Mr Terreblanche's death. We will take action and the specific action … will be decided upon at our conference.''
Although the killing comes amid increased racial tension, police said it was motivated not by politics but a dispute over wages. Captain Adele Myburgh said Mr Terreblanche was attacked by a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old youth who worked for him but who told police they had not been paid.
''Mr Terreblanche's body was found on the bed with facial and head injuries. There was a panga [machete] on him and knobkerrie [African club] next to the bed," Captain Myburgh said.
Mr Visagie said Mr Terreblanche, who was apparently alone and asleep at the time of the attack, was beaten so badly ''he didn't look like Eugene any more''. He said his only security were his dogs, which were ''neutralised''.
Mr Terreblanche was one of the most divisive figures in South African politics, believing in white supremacy and racial segregation. He recently declared: ''Our country is being run by criminals who murder and rob. This land was the best, and they ruined it all. We are being oppressed again. We will rise again.''
From the 1970s the AWB sought to terrorise blacks and fought to retain the system of racial segregation introduced in South Africa by the National Party in 1948.
Mr Terreblanche denounced the reformist leaders of the National Party, who in 1990 released the ANC leader Nelson Mandela and paved the way for majority rule.
In 2008 he said: ''God punished us with the government of [F. W.] de Klerk and the new order was forced upon us. I ask you, what is it that you want? We are a pitiful little nation but we will never ask forgiveness for apartheid.''
Twenty years ago, the image of Mr Terreblanche astride his black horse surrounded by armed and uniformed white supremacists came to symbolise the resistance of hardline Afrikaners to the dismantling of apartheid, which it saw as surrender to communism.
A number of people were killed during the ''Battle of Ventersdorp'', a confrontation between about 2000 armed AWB supporters and the police in 1991.
In the run-up to democratic elections in 1994, the AWB conducted a bombing campaign and threatened civil war.
In 1998 Mr Terreblanche accepted responsibility at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the bombing campaign and was granted amnesty.
He was convicted in 2001 of assaulting a petrol station worker and the attempted murder of a security guard. He was released from prison in 2004.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/call-for-ca ... utostart=1
JOHANNESBURG: The South African President, Jacob Zuma, has called for calm over the killing of the white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche.
The killing has caused shock waves at a delicate time for South Africa, just 10 weeks before it is to host the soccer World Cup. The government is trying to reassure tourists over security fears and to play down recent racial tensions.
Police say Mr Terreblanche was hacked and bludgeoned to death after an argument with two workers on his farm outside Ventersdorp in North West Province.
Mr Terreblanche, 69, was the leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB, formed in the 1970s, which bitterly opposed black majority rule.
Mr Zuma condemned the killing and urged South Africans to refrain from statements inciting racial hatred.
The AWB said it would avenge his killing but urged members not to react immediately.
The group's secretary-general, Andre Visagie, said yesterday that it would meet on May 1. ''We will decide upon our actions to avenge Mr Terreblanche's death. We will take action and the specific action … will be decided upon at our conference.''
Although the killing comes amid increased racial tension, police said it was motivated not by politics but a dispute over wages. Captain Adele Myburgh said Mr Terreblanche was attacked by a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old youth who worked for him but who told police they had not been paid.
''Mr Terreblanche's body was found on the bed with facial and head injuries. There was a panga [machete] on him and knobkerrie [African club] next to the bed," Captain Myburgh said.
Mr Visagie said Mr Terreblanche, who was apparently alone and asleep at the time of the attack, was beaten so badly ''he didn't look like Eugene any more''. He said his only security were his dogs, which were ''neutralised''.
Mr Terreblanche was one of the most divisive figures in South African politics, believing in white supremacy and racial segregation. He recently declared: ''Our country is being run by criminals who murder and rob. This land was the best, and they ruined it all. We are being oppressed again. We will rise again.''
From the 1970s the AWB sought to terrorise blacks and fought to retain the system of racial segregation introduced in South Africa by the National Party in 1948.
Mr Terreblanche denounced the reformist leaders of the National Party, who in 1990 released the ANC leader Nelson Mandela and paved the way for majority rule.
In 2008 he said: ''God punished us with the government of [F. W.] de Klerk and the new order was forced upon us. I ask you, what is it that you want? We are a pitiful little nation but we will never ask forgiveness for apartheid.''
Twenty years ago, the image of Mr Terreblanche astride his black horse surrounded by armed and uniformed white supremacists came to symbolise the resistance of hardline Afrikaners to the dismantling of apartheid, which it saw as surrender to communism.
A number of people were killed during the ''Battle of Ventersdorp'', a confrontation between about 2000 armed AWB supporters and the police in 1991.
In the run-up to democratic elections in 1994, the AWB conducted a bombing campaign and threatened civil war.
In 1998 Mr Terreblanche accepted responsibility at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the bombing campaign and was granted amnesty.
He was convicted in 2001 of assaulting a petrol station worker and the attempted murder of a security guard. He was released from prison in 2004.
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I certainly hope NOT.
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Good point. I was quick to post and didn't pay much attention for the spelling of the prick's name.
Hopefully the right wing groups listen to their nutjob leaders and stay calm till after the world cup and by then their revenge feelings would have decreased a little. Perhaps South Africa doing well would unite them a little.
Such a waste.
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