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Nazi salutes and swastikas as hundreds gather for funeral of murdered white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche
By Mail Foreign Service and Jane Flanagan
Last updated at 1:35 AM on 10th April 2010
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Their arms raised in a Nazi salute, thousands of angry white followers greet the coffin of Eugene Terreblanche as it leaves church. The South African white supremacist was buried on Friday, six days after being hacked to death by two black farm workers.
Supporters travelled from across the country to mourn his murder and, in some cases, plot revenge.
Children and even babies were dressed in the uniform of 69-year-old Terreblanche’s party, the AWB.
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And the Nazi's legacy:
There were audible wails of grief as the murdered Afrikaner's coffin was carried into the church draped in the red, black and white Nazi-like flag of his AWB movement. Two men wearing the group's military-style uniform stood at each end.
On the other side of town, the country's trade union federation called a mass meeting to ensure there would be no repeat of the black versus white clashes that had taken place earlier in the week when the alleged killers appeared in court.
Police and army units were drafted into the tiny town to ensure the funeral service and burial on Terreblanche's farm passed off peacefully.
Terreblanche was an iconic figure in the country; a large man with silver beard and piercing blue eyees, he attended rallies on horseback.
He was a fervent opposer of black rule. He had lived in relative obscurity since his release from prison in 2004 after a sentence for beating a black man nearly to death.
Despite fears to the contrary, his death has not sparked wider violence.
The acrimonious aftermath of Terreblanche's murder revealed strained race relations 16 years after apartheid collapsed and Nelson Mandela became president, urging all races to come together.
Terreblanche was hacked to death while he slept at his farm, apparently after a row over wages. The attack with machetes and pipes is said to have been so violent that Terreblanche's body was 'unrecognisable' .
His alleged killers worked for him on the farm outside Ventersdorp, north-west of Johannesburg.
To add to the list of potential security problems ahead of the football tournament, terror group Al Qaeda today threatened to attack the games in South Africa.
A statement from the group published online read: 'How amazing could the match United States vs Britain be when broadcasted live on air at a stadium packed with spectators.
'When the sound of an explosion rumbles through the stands, the whole stadium is turned upside down and the number of dead bodies are in their dozens and hundreds, Allah willing.' |
And so the sanguine snowball rolls along, gathering size and momentum as it goes. Hitler would have loved it!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/12/2010 : 13:56:45 [Permalink]
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The plot thickens.
SA police investigate sex link to Terreblanche killing
The suspects (one pictured here with face covered) were allegedly drunk
South African police are investigating allegations of sexual assault prior to the killing of white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche.
A lawyer for one of the two accused men said Terreblanche tried to have sex with at least one of the defendants.
Mr Terreblanche's body was found on a bed with his trousers pulled down.
Police had initially said the killing was over a wage dispute, but are now exploring the possibility that the killing was an act of self-defence.
"We are not going to focus on one thing," said Musa Zondi of the Hawks, South Africa's elite criminal investigation unit, which has taken over the investigation.
"We will investigate all pertinent facts that have a bearing on the matter."
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Machi4velli
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Posted - 04/12/2010 : 18:17:26 [Permalink]
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| The old "stabbed him 42 times in the back in self-defense" argument? |
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filthy
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 04:40:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Machi4velli
The old "stabbed him 42 times in the back in self-defense" argument?
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Could be, could be. Could be t'other way 'round as well. Evidently this guy was the Boer equivalent of one of our teabaggers.
Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche (January 31, 1941[n 1] – April 3, 2010) was a South African political leader. An Afrikaner, he was a former member of South Africa's Herstigte Nasionale Party who founded the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, or AWB) during the apartheid era. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he became known for threatening civil war to maintain white rule in South Africa.[1] After the country's transition to non-racial democracy, he revised his stance and urged his followers to push for independence in an independent Afrikaner homeland, which he frequently referred to as a "Boerevolkstaat".[citation needed] Terre'Blanche continued to lead the organisation until his death.
Terre'Blanche spent three years in prison for assaulting a black petrol station worker and the attempted murder of a black security guard in 1996.
On April 3, 2010, Terre'Blanche was hacked and beaten to death at his farm, allegedly by two of his labourers.
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We'll just have to wait and see.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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Machi4velli
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 12:03:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by Machi4velli
The old "stabbed him 42 times in the back in self-defense" argument?
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Could be, could be. Could be t'other way 'round as well. Evidently this guy was the Boer equivalent of one of our teabaggers. |
Except South African farmers have some pretty overtly violent demonstrations against them. The hate on both sides is significantly more overt than the teabaggers, many of whom are not motivated by that at all.
Obviously not trying to justify anything Terre'Blanche has done or said, just not sure why one would hack up a likely dead body with a machete in self defense. |
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
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Starman
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 Posted - 04/13/2010 : 12:22:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Machi4velli
.... just not sure why one would hack up a likely dead body with a machete in self defense. |
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 21:20:27 [Permalink]
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Democracy Now! interviewed South African scholar Adam Habib on this topic:
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/5/violence_is_the_product_of_the |
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Requiem for a Nazi
