‘Baie bloed, beserings’ en gesteelde kabels
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Die AWB-leier Eugene Terre’Blanche het “baie beserings”, bloed op sy gesig en ‘n panga op sy bors gehad toe hy dood aangetref is, het ‘n polisiebeampte Woensdag getuig.
Sers. Jack Ramonyane het in die rondgaande hof op Ventersdorp gesê Terre’Blanche se lyk het in sy plaashuis op ‘n bed gelê. Hy is die vyfde getuie wat die twee moordbeskuldigdes uitgewys het.

Hy het gesê die mure en ‘n staalpyp was met bloed bevlek.

Die plaashuis was gesluit toe Ramonyane by die moordtoneel opgedaag het. ‘n Nooddienswerker van EMS het die deur oopgemaak.

Ramonyane sê hy het nie dadelik ingegaan nie.

“Van Heerden [van EMS] het gevra dat ons wag voor ons ingaan aangesien dit binne die huis donker was. Daar was honde binne en hy het aangedui dat die honde ons kan byt…”

Hy sê Van Heerden het ‘n toe flitslig gebruik.

In daardie stadium was die twee beskuldigdes – Chris Mahlangu (28) en ‘n minderjarige – in die polisievoertuig wat buite die huis gestaan het.

Ramonyane sê hy het hulle na die huis geneem nadat hulle erken het dat hulle Terre’Blanche doodgemaak het.

meer op praag.

Ventersdorp. Several thousand supporters of the murdered right-wing leader Eugene Terreblanche Buren in Ventersdorp in South Africa have taken peaceful farewell at the funeral of Eugene Terreblance. A large deployment of police and strict conditions should prevent the feared racial conflicts.

Most followers of the leader of the “Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging” (AWB) followed the service in the crowded “Afrikaans Protestant Church” outside of the church building on monitors and speakers.

At the funeral was also attended by South African police chief Bheki Cele, and Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat Pettersson. The coffin of the murdered man was covered with the white-red flag of the AWB, the Triskele character similar to the swastika of the Nazis. The mourners, many in paramilitary clothes, sang the anthem of the repeatedly 16 years ago, detached, racist apartheid system.

AWB General Andre Visagie called for increased protection of the white farmers in South Africa. In the past 14 years had been killed over 3,000 white farmers, he said. South African authorities put the number of murdered white farmers lower. “We’re tired, we want to govern ourselves, we have our own culture, our own language,” said the spokesman for the AWB, which should have, he says more than 100 000 members. “We want peaceful negotiations with the government,” said Visagie. Only when this failed, “violence is the very last option” is.

Cele urged on the edge of the memorial service, the South Africans to overcome racial prejudice. It should not go in the fight against crime about victims or criminals to identify with skin colors. “We are all South Africans,” said the black police chief. In the past year had been killed in South Africa over 18 000 people, said police do not distinguish between black and white, he said. The murder rate in South Africa is more than 30 times higher than in Germany.

South African authorities had banned the face of tensions since the murder of Terreblanche flags, public speeches and rallies at the funerals. However, surprisingly, the South African Trade Unions had been invited to an “emergency rally” of farm workers in Tsing near the burial site. Unionists justified this with an attempt to keep blacks away from the funeral ceremonies, and thus to prevent collisions. Incidents on Friday were not known, only a black cameraman for the news channel e-tv was pushed by an AWB supporter and insulted.

Terreblanche was buried after the service on his farm near Ventersdorp in the substantial exclusion of the public.

On Tuesday, the police had to intervene in the court building in the Ventersdorp after scuffles between right-wing white men and black demonstrators. The court held its first hearing of the alleged murderer Terreblanche. A 15 – year-old and a 28-year-old accused of killing last Saturday, the 69-year-olds brutally on his farm near Ventersdorp after a wage dispute with a machete and a baton.

Both the ruling party and officials of the ANC splinter group of AWB, the participants of the funeral have called for calm and moderation. After the murder Afrikaner right-wing extremists had called for revenge.

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After the death of a feared right-wing South African racial unrest. Some are afraid of what may yet come. Who was Terre’Blanche?

It begins with a fight – and ends with murder. This happens again and again in South Africa, a country that has the trouble to curb violent crimes of violence. But not all murders, the nation attract so much as the recent murder near Ventersdorp. The crime of forcing President Jacob Zuma last week even to call its citizens to rest and calm. South Africa is shocked. And some are afraid of things to come yet.

Enlarge South African right-wing extremist Eugene Terre’Blanche: Murdered with beatings and machete (© Photo: Reuters)

The victim is Eugene Terre’Blanche. This name stands for everything the new democratic South Africa would like to leave behind. The bearded leader of an extreme right-wing movement in South Africa has been killed on his farm in the North West province. The police have arrested two suspects, a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-olds. The two blacks who worked for Terre’Blanche and apparently had fallen for alleged outstanding wage claims in dispute with him, it was said, according to initial investigations by the police. The 69-year-old was allegedly murdered in his bed with a machete and a stick.

But Terre’Blanche party doubts publicly that it was about money. Speculations about a political motive to make the rounds. The fear is growing that now could exacerbate tensions between whites and blacks at the Cape on. That would be dangerous to the cohesion of the young democracy.

In ten weeks, she invites the whole world for the World Cup to the Cape you will introduce yourself as a conciliatory and tolerant society, as a model for the whole continent. Now, if racial hatred should leave open again, this is a disturbing signal out into the world. This would be most threatening to the South African nation itself, where many conflicts fester unresolved – and try some politicians who abuse not yet worked up tensions of the apartheid policy. This is true not only for the white rights, but also – albeit in very different ways – for some currents within the ruling ANC.

Marginalized figure
Paradoxically, now the whole country are concerned about a man whose importance in South Africa last appeared at best marginal. The “Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), which led Terre’Blanche is, at the very right edge, but very few white South Africans to follow her. But now the AWB is public again very present. The party called the murder of her boss a “declaration of war”. They want to bury him now “at peace”. But then the party will on 1 meet May and “decide what steps are being taken to avenge Terre’Blanche death,” AWB-General Andre Visagie said in South African media.

Who is the story of the militant Buren recalls will wipe such threats can not quite aside. Although prevail doubt that the AWB is currently capable of actions that go beyond single, isolated attacks. But could it be that the recent murder of ultra-right forces in South Africa mobilized again.

Presentation as the master race
Terre’Blanche had founded his movement 1973rd He braced himself against the former apartheid regime because it allegedly sold the interests of the ruling whites. For people like himself a Terre’Blanche Pieter Botha was too liberal, who defended stable as president of South Africa, racial segregation. The Boer movement became more militant, as it became clear that the apartheid regime was headed by the late President Willem de Klerk on reforms. Terre’Blanche staged yourself on horseback, blue-eyed, with a flowing beard. A persistent settlers, a master race that is a “white country” wanted to – whatever his name corresponds Huguenot.

In the fight against the first democratic elections in South Africa killed 21 people, the AWB. Terre’Blanche took it later in the truth commission in charge. But in 1996 he struck a guard almost dead and it was later imprisoned. Since his release in 2004, he led a rather secluded life on his farm near Ventersdorp. He almost seemed to be forgotten.

Julius Malema, the coming man of the ANC
But it is now not only is for the murder of Terre’Blanche. To understand the great excitement in South Africa, looks back must be the heated debate in recent weeks, which caught fire again and again to the dubious appearances of a young man: Julius Malema, leader of the youth league of the ruling African National Congress (ANC).

Malema, 29, is an ambitious young man who sees himself not only on the way to the top of his party but also like it if it already followers act as a future president. Malema could now count on President Zuma and his supporters. He loves fine designer clothing – and the coarse word. None polarized society of South Africa as much as Malema. He was particularly effective with it as he recently revived an old song from the liberation struggle, “Kill the Boer” it says. Malema loves the song, he sings it whenever he can and teaches so the white minority to fear.

This resulted in a heated argument developed until a court last week said Malema under the singing of the song. Already in 2003 the Human Rights Commission of South Africa had banned the song as inflammatory. The young officer Malema does not seem to disturb the contrary. He travels straight through the adjacent state crisis occurs in this case with Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe’s closest followers to praise the policies of the dominant Zanu-PF.

That’s troubling enough for those South Africans who fear that Mugabe’s violent land expropriation might eventually find imitators in the Cape. The land reform that should be taken forward in South Africa by peaceful means, makes little progress for years. Malema exercises not only to close ranks with Mugabe’s forces, he tops that one, and sings, one day after assassination Terre’Blanche, the controversial song in Zimbabwe again: “Kill the Boer”. At the same time he declared the murder of Terre’Blanche: “I have nothing to do with it.”

President Zuma, is expected by the leadership sends mixed signals, however: on the one hand, he has used the Easter Sunday for a special address on national television, the murder as “appalling act” and condemned the land to rest times. That was a quick, clear response, which will welcome many South Africans. On the other hand, Zuma had but in recent months, always taken care of frustration because the ANC leadership had been unable to face down his youth functionary Malema in his place. The court’s ruling against the controversial song wants to challenge the ANC. All this stirs fear among the white population, because it gains the impression that racist tirades Malemas covered by the ANC, if not entirely carried.

Some bring the murder of Terre’Blanche therefore now directly with Malema and the song name. It crosses the reading of the ANC, that the song was not to be taken literally and should be understood as a kind of historic heritage from the times of the struggle against apartheid.

Even President Zuma loves so many a song from the days of the liberation struggle, above all else: “. Bring me my machine gun” In the election campaign for the presidency could be missing the song with hardly any of its appearance.

Many whites pulls it to the farm of murdered Eugene TerreBlanche
To him it was quiet. After the murder of Eugene Terreblanche is increasingly beleaguered white farmers report their say. Often remain unpunished crimes on them, police and politicians look away.

Of the first episodes of the murder of Eugene Terreblanche testify about 25 street signs of the N12 highway. Unknown, they have sprayed near the small town of Ventersdorp with graffiti, not far from the farm on which South Africa’s most famous racist leader was murdered. “AWB” there is now smeared – an abbreviation of the organization Africans Weerstandsbeweging, the Terreblanche had done for decades.

About a week has passed since the 69-year-old TerreBlanche was killed on Saturday by two of his workers. So brutal that “was no longer recognizable face” according to AWB spokesman Pieter Steyn that. He does not believe in a dispute over money, police had reported. The presentation of the ruling party African National Congress (ANC), the act had no political background, was incredible.

One should not imagine South Africa as a country close to civil war. But the atmosphere in parts of rural white population is heating up. On Tuesday it came before the Court of Ventersdorp, where the trial began against the confessed to fisticuffs between AWB supporters and passers-by. Today when Terre Blanche is to be buried on his property, is expecting a large contingent of police.

The anger is directed mainly against Julius Malema. Fervently was the leader of the ANC Youth League in early March to students “Kill the Boers” (Kill the Boers) sung a song from the liberation struggle. Several courts banned the song as “inflammatory language”. The party suffered Malemas behavior yet – it is part of their political culture, let the young talent to an ample margin.

After all, President Jacob Zuma, who had watched the almost daily inflammatory language against the white minority Malemas frighteningly stoic criticized him this time unusually sharp. The political elite had to think before they make statements “that could achieve the opposite of what we want – build a nation.”

He said the majority of South Africans from the soul, regardless of skin color. They fear the murder could just before the 2010 World Cup so far achieved reconciliation set in the background. ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe announced on Wednesday in talks with Malema under which “the people will see the change.”

But the 29-year-old was previously intransigent, and also the will of the ANC is clearly not just about clear: The party condemned the act, but still no ban adopted the text, instead, a spokesman pointed right decision points to a white farmer , is said to have beaten his workers recently. A successful de-escalation policy is different.

Who in these days of TerreBlanche’s farm runs, the experienced how great the damage, as had many sympathizers, despite his racist views. During the transition period to democracy in the early 90s, the AWB was openly threatened with war. The organization is also known then to attacks before it was quiet around them. Terre Blanche also took his goal no longer as loud as before: the formation of a separate state for the white population. Are now dozens of bouquets of flowers at the entrance to Terre Blanche’s farm. For this, two stuffed animals: “I love you” is written on a giant teddy bear. Rarely is the community of some 40 000 white farmers of the country was so much commotion. Many families drove hither, shocked. Far not all were active AWB members, many sympathizers, but some also simply drove the anger at the murders of farmers to Ventersdorp. The statistics vary 1500-4000 since 1994. The Eugene Terreblanche funeral has symbolic character.

Dirk Venter was one of the angry, his farm is located a few kilometers away. “They have slaughtered him like a pig,” said the 59-year-old, “this thing can end badly.” On Sunday AWB activists applied in their khaki uniforms marched through the city. Since the perpetrators had long since made to the police, they waited on the farm. “Otherwise, they would come out of there dead,” says Venter.

Next to him is the builder Johann Bruwer. Two hours later he arrived from Johannesburg, “a patriot”. This time can not all be swept under the carpet. His older brother was long AWB member, he despised him for it earlier. But he said: “If I had felt then, as now, I would be joined.”

The AWB is the murder of new supply. So many uniforms and flags has not seen since the Ventersdorp sleepy years. A counter-attack there would not be, says AWB spokesman Pieter Steyn. But also: “we are talking about politics again until after the funeral.”

Something he could already announce: “We have received thousands of requests since Saturday for new admissions.” It is doubtful whether the organization was marginalized and had just recently as the young generation barely feed. But present it is again. Abruptly.

A murder, but no race war
It was a brutal murder: Two young black men killed Eugene Terre Blanche, the far-right Buren. Nevertheless, the act is a prelude to a race war in the country of South Africa’s World Cup – not change anything too strong images. By Marc Goergen, Johannesburg

A young member of the extreme right, white “resistance movement” AWB demonstrated on the first day of hearings of the murderers by Eugene Terre Blanche

It should not have done much outside of South Africa, which has said the name of Eugene Terre Blanche until last weekend, something. The leader of the extreme right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), the Afrikaner Resistance Movement was, even in South Africa as a relic from a savage past. His murder made him more alive than he had in the past 15 years ever – especially, it seems, abroad.

The death was brutal. Terre Blanche was brutally assassinated two employees on his farm with knives and machetes, then have him bare his killers apparently still. Maybe it was about unpaid salaries. Maybe it was simply vengeance – Terre Blanche was a racist who paid his employees lousy and probably sometimes suggested. Not surprisingly, therefore, that the South African Press revels in the details of the action. The blood-soaked bed. The knocked out tooth, which was found on the floor.

Racists make backtracking
The more surprising, however, the interest from overseas. Dozens of foreign reporters flocked to the first hearing on Tuesday of two suspects. And there was the expectable pictures outside the courthouse: Boer farmers on the one hand, black workers on the other, in between the barbed wire. 64 days prior the start of the football World Cup is like no other country targeted by the world press, and a murder of a white-bearded old Buren by two young blacks seems as if summoned to declare a race war. The fact that the AWB has first called for revenge is like reported. The fact that he has withdrawn this oath the next day, barely.

Certainly, race is always special and just a very sensitive issue in South Africa. The populist leader of the ANC Youth Organization Julius Malema was banned just from the highest court of the country to sing in public a battle song, which announced the killing of the Boers. So far, the 29-year-old seems to care little – on a visit to Zimbabwe he agrees with a strong back. And anyway the walls between the races are high. A quarter of all South Africans, which resulted in a survey, on a normal working day not in contact with country people of another race.

The country feels unfairly treated – rightly
All this makes but for the murder of Terre Blanche’s not the start of a race war. Just recently we had to digest here that the attacks were calculated on the Togolese soccer ball team during the African Cup in Angola to South Africa’s own responsibility. And now the impending final battle between black and white.

The country feels unfairly treated, and not without reason. The security situation in the country is not easy – but the murder of Terre Blanche adds nothing. The AWB is a far-right splinter group confused, hardly more important than the ailing DVU in Germany. The vision of a white supremacy or a purely Afrikaner “nation state” is shared among the Boers hardly anyone. The days of AWB supporters coup concocted plans or jeeps stormed building, which was received in the apartheid government negotiations with the ANC are long gone.

Again, on Friday at the funeral Terre Blanche blow the swastika-like flags. Once again there will be pictures of Boers in khaki pants, shed the murder and whether the supposedly glorious apartheid tears. With a civil war but that has nothing to do. And with the upcoming soccer World Cup the way, even less.

After the murder of extremist Eugène Terre ‘Blanche agrees ANC youth leader Julius Malema on songs that poison the atmosphere on the Cape – and jeopardize a peaceful future.

The white extremist Eugène Terre ‘Blanche has been killed in South Africa. Yet little is known about the background of the fact, is quite clear that the murder provides fuel for the enemies of democracy.

Radical right-wing forces are out for revenge. This need not spiral of violence set in motion, but an escalation is possible if the political leadership underestimated the risks arising from the tensions between the white and black population in South Africa.

It is as dangerous when ANC officials singing the likes of Julius Malema songs like “Kill the Boer”, as this would be generally recognized heritage from the days of the liberation struggle. The wounds of apartheid are still not healed, so it is inevitable that such songs poisoning in South Africa today the mood – and stir up violence.

Malema’s unreasonable and that the song even after the murder of Terre’Blanche continue singing is an embarrassment for South Africa. In ten weeks, the country intends to present itself as a tolerant nation in the World Cup. But Malema zündelt without him that the ANC has in their place.

The youth leader is singing such songs because he wants to increase its popularity and the frustrated rally behind him, which were suspended from the boom. A responsible President needs leaders like Malema with determination, because they undermine the chances for a peaceful future in the Cape.

Jacob Zuma may now prove whether he has the courage. Songs like “Kill the Boer” are relics from a time that South Africa has to overcome if the vision of the rainbow nation is still something.

This is the death blow for the Whites
Schumacher, Paul M. (Spiegel, 1985)

SPIEGEL interview with the radical Boer Eugene TerreBlanche on the apartheid Eugene Terreblanche, 41, leader of the African Weerstandbeweging (AWB), which was founded to defend the doctrine of racial purity. *

SPIEGEL: Mr. Terreblanche, the mixed-marriage ban and the indecencyparagraph, the physical love between people of different skin color are placed under penalty abolished. How about that?

Terreblanche: It’s the kiss of death for whites. The government now has no moral right longer to retain the other apartheid laws. When the mixture is allowed from the blood when they say it does not violate the law and the Scriptures, that children are born from such relationships, then one should not make the second-class citizens.

SPIEGEL: You said it yourself: apartheid, especially those pure apartheid who want to get, makes non-whites are second class.

Terreblanche: Apartheid is for me not oppression. It is a system between different races. People of different races are kept apart in peace. Nowhere in Africa, where the white man was in the minority, the blacks have him left alone.

SPIEGEL: The white “Afrikaners” live for over 300 years in Africa, yet they have such fear of the blacks?

Terreblanche: I’m realistic. There is no consensus among the whites in South Africa and the blacks in Africa. Where blacks have taken power, the White property and pensions were taken away. They were driven out of their factories, burned their property.

SPIEGEL: But in fact only when it came to war …

Terreblanche: I seek no war, but I’m not afraid. I’m not afraid to fight – not really. The government has now created conditions that make a white-black confrontation inevitable.

SPIEGEL: That’s why they call in your circles the President Pieter Botha a “traitor”?

Terreblanche: If you can think of another word, an equivalent, then please. He is the biggest sellouts of the Afrikaner nation.

SPIEGEL: He is the first South African head of state tried for almost forty years of apartheid, to be secured with hesitant to change the White survival. Is that so bad?

Terreblanche: The white man will go under if Botha continues his way.

SPIEGEL: Is it true that people like to call their dogs “Botha”?

Terreblanche: I do not think that someone who loves his pet, gives him such a name.

SPIEGEL: You want a white homeland …

Terreblanche: … a white people’s state.

SPIEGEL: Where?

Terreblanche: We used the “Zuidafrikaanse Republiek” and the Republic “Vrystaat Oranje” (the modern provinces of Transvaal and Orange Free State). They have stolen from us, the English after two thirds of our people were killed.

SPIEGEL: The Boers were forced to close after two lost wars in 1902 with the British peace. Do you want to return to the turn of the century, a third Anglo-Boer War, perhaps?

Terreblanche: We are looking forward to us before the next turn of the century is not seeking the Revolution. The Jews did not get back until after 2000 years of their country.

SPIEGEL: How do you achieve this?

Terreblanche: We have to get rid of Botha and his half-breeds on the Cape, if we win the next election. In the Transvaal and the Free State we have no hybrid problems, 85 percent of the races living in the Cape Province.

SPIEGEL: So-called racial missteps has it even when your people but also given time and again.

Terreblanche: Yes, there were exceptions, some weaklings. But remember, we went on the Great Trek from the Cape, when the British abolished the racial shame there.

SPIEGEL: The Boers have, however, scientific evidence shows an average of about seven percent “dark” blood.

Terreblanche: The Colonial yes, but not the Boers in the Transvaal and Free State. In 99 percent of the cases – which are then maybe it happened again – the white man went to the black woman. A white woman with a black man, has there been as good as ever. So when then children were born, grew to less than blacks. With such half-breeds, we have nothing to do.

SPIEGEL: Are you personally quite sure that you only have white ancestors?

Terreblanche: Of course.

SPIEGEL: Who is it white in your state, if it ever came so far, do the work?

Terreblanche: For many years there will be also many blacks. Because they can not simply _ (Paul M. Schumacher in Pretoria.)

charge and create jobs in their home countries. We need to make these areas are first viable.

SPIEGEL: You are farmers. Do you have black people?

Terreblanche: Only two, which I give to work.

SPIEGEL: It is said that you had Nazi sympathies?

Terreblanche: The left propaganda is lying when they claimed that I was a pure National Socialist. In fact, I’m Afrikaner nationalist. Paul Kruger is closer to me than Adolf Hitler. ”

SPIEGEL: When you see how to salute with outstretched arm and open hand at the end of a speech, you might think otherwise.

Terreblanche: If I represent with fire and love my job and some Jews will fear it, then must have the same fear. I am a son of this country.

SPIEGEL: You have the new South African Constitution, which since last September for the first time confers brown South Africans, political participation, given 18 months. For then you predict “the great bloody confrontation.” Where will you be?

Terreblanche: I will come with all their might, with my whole motion for order, justice and security. But if all falls right, then we will reclaim this land by force.

SPIEGEL: In less than twelve months it’s going to start?

Terreblanche: Well, the date is not important. But when the government capitulated – and I’m convinced – then we fight. We Boers have no other home than this country – or do you want us in Germany?

SPIEGEL: No.

A well known defender of apartheid, the South African racial separation, has been murdered. Eugene Terre Blanche led the African resistance movement – a far-right party
in the Boer, the settlers of Dutch descent originally. Often the term is also used for all whites in South Africa.

The 69-year-old Terre Blanche was killed on his farm where he lived in retirement in recent years – after a prison sentence because he had beaten a black man nearly to death.

According to police, two suspects in custody, who worked for him. The background is indeed still
unclear. Instead of a political motive was but it might simply be missing wages.

Terre Blanche sees the party, however, vary:
reminiscent of a song from the apartheid period, the singing of the head of the ANC Youth League of the ruling party just at a public appearance
has – the song is called: Kill the Boers.

Murder of right-wing cast shadows on the Rainbow Nation
The alleged killers of the Afrikaner right-wing extremists Eugene Terre Blanche have pleaded guilty in court of action. Politicians of all parties have condemned the murder sharp and call for calm on – with the exception of the extreme right.

Terre Blanche at a party conference speech, the AWB in October 2009.
Even in normal times, the murder of Eugene Terre Blanche beyond South Africa would be more than one message have been worth. After all, the leader of the extreme right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging “(AWB), but not any of the leading right-wing extremists in the former apartheid state. There he had founded in 1973 with six other Boers, the AWB, which demonstrated from the beginning with the use of Nazi-like symbols and martial parades their ideological closeness to the fascists. And there are now only supporters of the AWB, heighten the mood, knowing that they will be paid well above fee includes ten weeks before the start of the football World Cup. “The teams and fans from all over the world travel to a country of murderers. We can only warn them, because those are the incidents that happen in South Africa. Course during the World Cup, “said Andre Visagie of the AWB and announced some” actions “from 1 Of May. How strong the impact of the AWB, which has in recent years lost much of its meaning, yet enough is debatable. In their fight against the first democratic elections in 1994 for murdering 21 people once.

The 69-year-old Terre Blanche was on Saturday evening after an argument apparently missing wages by two black employees of his farm in Ventersdorp in the North West of the country have been murdered. The two suspects, including a 15-year-old teenager, introduced themselves to the police, according to authorities. They claim that Terre Blanche was a bad boss, who had beaten and verbally abused its employees. The bloody corpse of the extreme right was found, according to authorities with information in his bed, a machete was still in the body.

The Prime Minister of the North West Province, Maureen Modiselle, visited on Monday the members of Terre Blanche and said the family their condolences. According to its spokesman, reinforced the message of President Jacob Zuma, who had called on all parties to show after the “cowardly murder” of responsibility. “We call on the people, the law does not” take into their own hands, “she said.

The opposition, meanwhile, sees in a political protégé of one of the spiritual arsonist Zuma Julius Malema, ANC secretary general of the youth organization. The 29-year-old Malema is an important ally of Zuma, and sees in its impetuous political career appeared to mimic a cheap way. He cultivates radical speeches, calls for the nationalization of the mining industry and the expropriation of land and he maintains like Zuma “traditional martial songs. What Zuma his campaign hit “Bring me my machine gun” is Malema his “Kill the Boer” (Kill the Farmer). The fact that both songs are not to take everything literally, is for Zuma and Malema certainly clear and also for their trailer.

Malema also makes itself vulnerable by daring political friendships. Last week he visited Zimbabwe where he was a guest of the ZANU-PF, the party of Robert Mugabe, clearly showed sympathy for the expropriation of white farmers and entrepreneurs. Although it is undisputed that neither a land reform have a reduction of social inequality in South Africa 16 years after apartheid-end succeeded significantly, is the example of Zimbabwe, many South Africans, especially the approximately nine million whites and Asians a nightmare. However, there is no evidence that Zuma Mugabe facing a course. Instead, he has a majority, without any technical need for integrating the Freedom Front Plus party in his Cabinet, so there it represents the interests of white farmers. The fact that the rainbow nation is an ideal than a fact of life, rather, does not change anything. Terre Blanche is the case for a more telling example.

South African right-wing extremist assassinated, “declared war on the whites’

Photo: dpa Eugene Terre Blanche in ten weeks time the World Cup in South Africa. On Easter Saturday the known right-wing extremist was killed Eugene Terre Blanche – the creating unrest in the country where the situation is already very tense.
Ventersdorp – A murder, a song and the World Cup: Ten weeks before the start of the football World Cup in South Africa solves the murder of the known right-wing extremists Eugene Terre Blanche worries from before massive racial unrest – in a country where the situation currently is already very tense.

Eugene Terre Blanche (69) was hacked on Easter Saturday at his remote farm near Ventersdorp in his bed to death. Police arrested two black employees (15 and 21 years old) set. The two farm aid will now appear in court. The authorities said that it had gone to their statements to a salary dispute – rather than racial hatred.

But his followers are convinced of the contrary. Terre Blanche (“White Land”) was as head of the openly racist “Africans Weerstandbeweging (AWB) a known figure. He had dedicated his life to the struggle for white supremacy. The AWB logo mimics the swastika. “Murder is a declaration of war of blacks to the whites,” said Andre Visagie, general secretary of the AWB. “We will avenge us. Call me in very many people want to act now. “For now, rest on account of the funeral. But: “From 1 May, we will coordinate our actions. ”

AZ-OPINION: Seeds of radicals

Visagie said the soccer team qualified for the World Cup and all followers and tourists in June not to come to South Africa – not to be caught in the crossfire.

The fact is the country most awkward. “Now that the tensions are already high, the murder is the only foment even more anger, fear Hellen Zille, leader of the biggest opposition party. The ruling party ANC tried startled to calm the situation: “The terrible fact must not be used to incite racial hatred. No one may take the law into his hands, “said President Jacob Zuma. But it was just his foster son, Julius Malema, who has heated up the atmosphere dramatically.

“Zuma’s Rottweiler” is called the head of the ANC youth organization, and he makes mood among blacks against the whites. “Dogs,” he calls them and Zille “a racist little girl.” In early March, he publicly sang the old fight song, “Kill the Boer”, “Kill the Boers” – for the AWB the trigger for the murder of Terre Blanche. Malema sang the song again right now, just with a visit to the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, despite two court rulings him singing the song are prohibited. The 29-year-old is for many a red flag: He accumulates wealth of unexplained way, incited against whites and transfigured Mugabe who has ruined his country.

Central question is how much support the radicals in the society. Terre Blanche was increasingly isolated even among whites, but in the face of crime and poor job opportunities where there is dissatisfaction, which seeks an outlet. Just the other way: Shake over Malemas hustle many black head. But even among them is growing, especially in the poor townships an explosive atmosphere. The newspaper “The Mercury” advertises: “Extremism is not the language of the majority who want to live in peace. Terre Blanche is not the pin-up boy of the whites, Malema is not the pinup boy of the blacks. ”