After the murder of Eugene Terreblanche racist South Africa threatens new racial hatred
Ventersdorp - The Van Raebeeck Street is one of those country roads seem to lead to nowhere. Endless fields along the road, only now and then a gate. Here no one stops. Here goes through it. Shortly before the South African town of Ventersdorp but equal to 15 cars parked on the roadside. Police secure the door to the farm of Eugene Terreblanche. Supporters of the racist Boer leader have placed dozens of bouquets of flowers in front of the fence. "I love you" is written on a giant teddy bear.
Rarely, the community of about 40 000 white farmers of the country was in turmoil. On Saturday afternoon Terreblanche was brutally murdered by two of his workers - allegedly because of a dispute about money. He died of head and facial injuries, a machete still lay on his stomach when police arrived. She found him in bed, where the 69-year-old spent after heart surgery last most of the time. In the statistics, his death will go down as just another "murder farm" - but this may be one of the most consequential.
The choleric with a full beard for decades led the extremist "Weerstandsbeweging Africans" (AWB) - which is fighting for the preservation of racial segregation and a separate state for the white population. The early 90s, they had tens of thousands of supporters, since it had been quiet about the AWB. The ideas, however, is still alive, sponsored by the inaction of the police and the martial rhetoric of leading politicians of the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
Before the gates of Terre-Blanche-estate is Dirk Venter, his farm is located a few kilometers. "He's always stood up for us, and now they have him slaughtered like a pig," says the 59-year-old, "this thing can end badly." On Sunday AWB activists were applied in their khaki uniforms marched through the city. Since the offender had already made to the police, they were waiting on the farm. "Otherwise they would not come out of there alive," says Venter. Next to him stands the builder Johann Bruwer. He came here from Johannesburg, "a patriot". This time, everything could not be swept under the rug.
The wrath of the men directed against Julius Malema. Fervently had the leader of the ANC Youth League in early March to students' Kill the Boer "(Kill the Boer) sung a song from the liberation struggle. Two weeks ago, a court, it states that it is "inflammatory language". But the effect is obvious at least from the perspective of AWD: Up to Malemas observations every 48 hours there had been an attack on white farmers. Now only 18 hours passed until the next dead.
Malema, currently on official visit to Zimbabwe, was hardly moved by Terreblanche death. Has taken, "I do not concern myself with such a person," he said, and instead showed interest in the land reform of the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, the 4000 white farmers ownership. Malema does little for years for an opportunity to agitate against the white minority - always tolerated by the leadership of his party.
But now it unusually sharply criticized President Jacob Zuma: "We condemn the murder of Eugene Terreblanche," Zuma said. "This incident should teach us that we think as a leader, before we make any public statements that could achieve the opposite of what we actually want -. To build a nation" He said most South Africans from the soul, whatever their skin color. They fear that the murder could shortly before the World Cup in their country achieved reconciliation into the background.
Even Terreblanche, who lived in seclusion and was barely active in politics had changed, neighbors report. With one of his ten black employees he had even set up something like a friendship. But the murder of the AWB's new popularity. "We have been getting requests for admissions 3000 Saturday," said a spokesman Buren. The phone does not stand still.
Friday, 9 December 2011
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Movement Eugene Terreblanche murdered allegedly by farm workers
Right-wing extremist Terreblanche assassinated
The South African right-wing extremist Eugene Terreblanche was
murdered on Saturday, police said, apparently because of a dispute
over alleged unpaid wages.
The South African right-wing extremist Eugene Terreblanche was
murdered on Saturday, police said, apparently because of a dispute
over alleged unpaid wages.
A 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old were arrested. President Jacob
Zuma warned of an outbreak of racial hatred and called for calm the
population.
The white leaders of the extreme right-wing South African Boer
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Movement (AWB) was killed on his farm
near Ventersdorp in the North West of the country by a man and a
minor, police said on South African media reports. "He is surprised in
his sleep and was beaten to death," said an AWB member. According to
media reports, the perpetrators used machetes and batons.
Indeed, after a 21 year old man and a 15-year-old were arrested. Adele
Myburgh said the police, who had both given in a first interrogation,
they were not paid for their work on the farm. Terreblanche and the
two were alone for the time of the crime on the farm. The detainees
were brought before a court soon. They threatened a murder indictment.
The murder falls into a critical period for South Africa. The World
Cup begins in a few weeks and many are worried about the increasing
racial discrimination. In the slums of South Africa, there are
continuous riots.
The South African President Jacob Zuma has called for the murder of
the white right-wing extremist Eugene Terreblanche to rest. As the BBC
reported early Sunday, said Zuma, not the murder could lead to racial
hatred. Also, farmers' organizations in the area of Ventersdorp urged
to rest. A spokeswoman for the opposition Democratic Alliance party,
Juanita Terblanche pointed to problems in rural areas, which would by
"irresponsible racist remarks" fueled more and more.
Career of Eugene TerreBlanche
Eugene TerreBlanche, the man who preached violence in South Africa against racial equality, even become victims of unrestrained violence. His career at a glance.
The leader of the extreme right "Weerstandsbeweging Africans" (AWB), Eugene TerreBlanche was killed on his farm near his birthplace Ventersdorp cruelly killed with a machete and a baton. To the 69 year old it was extremists in recent years become more quiet, even if the AWB wrestled under his leadership since 2008 at a revival of the militant struggle for white supremacy in South Africa.
TerreBlanche was killed on his farm by two black workers with cutting and stabbing weapons.
TerreBlanche, meaning "white earth", was the founder and leader of the AWB for decades. His grandfather and father had fought for "the cause of the Boers."Already as a teenager TerreBlanche founded the Afrikaner youth organization "Young Africans heart." After graduation he went to the South African Police Service and served in the then South West Africa, now Namibia. Eventually he became a member of the security forces bodyguard of the former South African prime minister, John Vorster.
Close to fascist ideology
TerreBlanche supporters lay flowers down on the farm of the murder victim.
TerreBlanche, founded in 1973 with six other Boers, the AWB, which already demonstrated with the use of Nazi-like symbols and martial parades their ideological closeness to the fascists. The AWB stood up for one Afrikaner nation state, in which blacks should just "guest workers" to be. Angry, but also increasingly isolated among the Boers, the organization fought against the abolition of the apartheid system and the reconciliation policy of Frederik Willem de Klerk and Nelson Mandela.
Terre Blanche, who also wrote poetry and plays, was considered enigmatic contemporary: His followers revered the bearded, heavy-weight Buren as a charismatic leader - who, however, ridiculed and times with drunkenness, sex scandals or the fall from his horse during a public appearance.
After prison, "born-again Christian"
The brother of former AWB chief, Andries TerreBlanche, after a press conference on the occasion of the assassination.
TerreBlanche was arrested in the 80s and 90s several times after a militant and terrorist activities and sentenced. The actions ranged from tarring and feathering of a professor in Pretoria and illegal possession of arms to bloody street battles and bombings. Shortly before the first democratic election in South Africa in April 1994, the AWB had perpetrated bombing attacks in the Johannesburg inner city, where several people were killed. However, the courts of the apartheid system spared prison sentences against perpetrators of violence to impose political white, later, the radical right then benefited from the amnesty and reconciliation policy of the first black South African President Mandela.
TerreBlanche, however, still had to be from April 2000 to June 2004 to jail after a court because he was convicted of a brutal attack on a petrol station attendant and the attempted murder of a security officer to six years in prison. In prison he had changed and had become a "born-again Christian" peaceful and conciliatory, reported after his murder family members. However TerreBlanche in 2009 had called for public speeches a "free Boer Republic" and the collection of all right-wing groups in South Africa.
The leader of the extreme right "Weerstandsbeweging Africans" (AWB), Eugene TerreBlanche was killed on his farm near his birthplace Ventersdorp cruelly killed with a machete and a baton. To the 69 year old it was extremists in recent years become more quiet, even if the AWB wrestled under his leadership since 2008 at a revival of the militant struggle for white supremacy in South Africa.
TerreBlanche was killed on his farm by two black workers with cutting and stabbing weapons.
TerreBlanche, meaning "white earth", was the founder and leader of the AWB for decades. His grandfather and father had fought for "the cause of the Boers."Already as a teenager TerreBlanche founded the Afrikaner youth organization "Young Africans heart." After graduation he went to the South African Police Service and served in the then South West Africa, now Namibia. Eventually he became a member of the security forces bodyguard of the former South African prime minister, John Vorster.
Close to fascist ideology
TerreBlanche supporters lay flowers down on the farm of the murder victim.
TerreBlanche, founded in 1973 with six other Boers, the AWB, which already demonstrated with the use of Nazi-like symbols and martial parades their ideological closeness to the fascists. The AWB stood up for one Afrikaner nation state, in which blacks should just "guest workers" to be. Angry, but also increasingly isolated among the Boers, the organization fought against the abolition of the apartheid system and the reconciliation policy of Frederik Willem de Klerk and Nelson Mandela.
Terre Blanche, who also wrote poetry and plays, was considered enigmatic contemporary: His followers revered the bearded, heavy-weight Buren as a charismatic leader - who, however, ridiculed and times with drunkenness, sex scandals or the fall from his horse during a public appearance.
After prison, "born-again Christian"
The brother of former AWB chief, Andries TerreBlanche, after a press conference on the occasion of the assassination.
TerreBlanche was arrested in the 80s and 90s several times after a militant and terrorist activities and sentenced. The actions ranged from tarring and feathering of a professor in Pretoria and illegal possession of arms to bloody street battles and bombings. Shortly before the first democratic election in South Africa in April 1994, the AWB had perpetrated bombing attacks in the Johannesburg inner city, where several people were killed. However, the courts of the apartheid system spared prison sentences against perpetrators of violence to impose political white, later, the radical right then benefited from the amnesty and reconciliation policy of the first black South African President Mandela.
TerreBlanche, however, still had to be from April 2000 to June 2004 to jail after a court because he was convicted of a brutal attack on a petrol station attendant and the attempted murder of a security officer to six years in prison. In prison he had changed and had become a "born-again Christian" peaceful and conciliatory, reported after his murder family members. However TerreBlanche in 2009 had called for public speeches a "free Boer Republic" and the collection of all right-wing groups in South Africa.
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