Should South Africa really urge people to stay calm after the Terre-blanche murder?”
The latest development is that a teenager has confessed to the Terreblanch killing. telegraph.co.uk: Teenager admits Terreblanche killing as security is stepped up for court hearing A teenage farm worker has admitted beating South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche with an iron rod after he refused to pay his wages By Sebastien Berger In Johannesburg Published: 6:01PM BST 05 Apr 2010 The 15-year-old’s mother, who cannot be named because her son is a minor, said he had confessed to killing his employer with a second man. She said Mr Terreblanche had promised to give them their wages once they had brought in his cows, but then refused. “He said that the man told him to wait while he went to the storeroom,” she said. “He came back with an iron rod. He started hitting Terreblanche, with four blows to the head. Then my son says he took the iron rod and hit him with three blows. “My son was a person who doesn’t like to be in trouble,” she added at her home in a township out
VENTERSDORP, South Africa (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma called for calm on Sunday after the killing of white far-right leader Eugene Terre’blanche in a suspected pay dispute with black workers fanned fears of racial strains. Police detained two farm workers and said they were investigating the quarrel they had with Terre’blanche, but his Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) says he was battered and hacked to death in an attack with political overtones. Zuma, who has made it a priority to court white Afrikaners, called it a “terrible deed” and urged South Africans “not to allow agent provocateurs to take advantage of this situation by inciting or fuelling racial hatred.” Terre’blanche, 69, was the voice of hardline opposition to the end of apartheid in the early 1990s although his party has played a marginal role since then and does not have a big following among the 10 percent of white South Africans. The AWB urged restraint while the funeral is prepared and before the
