The anger of the Boers

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.