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Supremacist’s Slaying Stirs Racial Divide

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Posted on Apr 4, 2010
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Eugene Terreblanche was co-founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement).

A South African white supremacist leader, Eugene Terreblanche, was allegedly murdered by two farmhands in the northwest region of the country, eliciting cries of protest from his far-right followers and a plea for calm from the country’s black president, Jacob Zuma.

Terreblanche was well known for championing a white separatist agenda, which called for a separate homeland for the country’s white population.

His killing was allegedly over unpaid wages. Some observers believe the death of Terreblanche could be used to incite racial instability, seriously injuring the decades-long process of post-apartheid reconciliation and reconstruction. —JCL

The BBC:

South African President Jacob Zuma has appealed for calm after the killing of the white supremacist leader, Eugene Terreblanche.

Mr Zuma said South Africans must not allow anyone to take advantage of the “terrible deed” by inciting racial hatred.

Police said Mr Terreblanche had been beaten to death in a dispute with two farm workers over unpaid wages.

Mr Terreblanche’s far-right movement urged its members to be calm.

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By photoshock, April 5, 2010 at 6:52 am Link to this comment

ohmygodnotagain! You have an extremely inflated and out of touch sense of ego. To say that the country, South Africa, would fall apart if it weren’t for the whites is to deny thousands of years of history.
While Western Europe was in the throes of the ‘Dark Ages’ Southern Africa and the states surrounding South Africa were flourishing quite well without the presence of white colonialists and white supremacists.
You sound like someone who has bought into the lie that is “Eugenics!” Whereby, one can tell the intelligence of another by the colour of their skin or the shape of their heads. There were textbooks that in the early 20th Century proclaimed that the White race was superior in every way and then went on
to explain the reasoning behind this.
Much in the same way, the latest and greatest lunacy on the face of the planet is “The Bell Curve,” written by two people who set out to prove that the white race and anyone other than the Black Skinned race were superior because of the testing scores and other non-scientific rubbish that only proved one thing, that the authors of this clap-trap were ultimately pandering to a racist crowd, trying to make prejudice and racism acceptable and even the policy of the government.
David Rockefeller, believes much the same thing. But his prejudice and sense of privilege is based on monetary wealth.
Yes, racists, have money and privilege. The ones like this Terreblanche person, were duped into believing lies to carry out a racist agenda by the people of privilege. Which the white skinned minority
were until the free and fair elections of the mid 70’s is South Africa. The racists that stayed behind did so for love of country and to try and regain that
sense of privilege they once had. These people do this through economic slavery, not physical slavery.
We need, and desperately want economic freedom and this will only happen through revolution, overthrowing the current economic system and replacing it with one of equity and stability, not based upon accumulation of wealth and privilege but based upon the content of a person’s character and their ethics.

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By firefly, April 4, 2010 at 9:20 pm Link to this comment

omygodnotagain,
You say “Without the white population the country would fall apart.”

What an outlandishly racist comment.

It’s because of the whites that the country fell apart in the first place. It’s because of barefaced, shameless racism that South Africa has problems today. Its racist history of attacks, killings, torture and absolute brutality and injustice on blacks, brought it to this.

To suggest that the apartheid system benefitted the country is laughable. It benefitted a tiny minority while the infinite majority suffered in every sense of the word.

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By stcfarms, April 4, 2010 at 7:56 pm Link to this comment

Is that why the white population keeps America? We Indians would like
the chance to “fall apart”.

By omygodnotagain, April 4 at 10:10 pm #

Without the white population the country would fall apart.

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By omygodnotagain, April 4, 2010 at 7:10 pm Link to this comment

Without the white population the country would fall apart. Recently, the government has stopped the transfers of lands to the black population. The failure of once successful farms now run by blacks has led to food shortages. This is what happened in Zimbabwe formerly Rhodesia. That combined with house attacks on whites and killings and torture of white farmers has led to an increase in tension and extremism. SA has one of the highest crime rates in the world

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By firefly, April 4, 2010 at 11:55 am Link to this comment

I was going to say something similar. America remains one of the few ‘colonised’ countries that ‘successfully’ subjugated the indigenous peoples and called the country their own (Australia, Canada, Israel and many South American countries have also done this). Europeans tried it in Asia and Africa, but eventually gave the land back to its original inhabitants. White supremacists still remain in these countries, but should emigrate to the countries like America that pretend that they are all about virtue, democracy and justice, while suppressing others.

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By stcfarms, April 4, 2010 at 10:50 am Link to this comment

He should have come to America, the white supremacists have effectively
destroyed the native population…

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