South African white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche is shown on June 11, 2004 after his release from prison in Potchefstroom. The far-right leader, who campaigned for a separate white homeland, was murdered on Saturday.
Ventersdorp, South Africa: Laying flowers and draping a separatist flag, far-right supporters of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche flocked yesterday to the farm where he was hacked to death.
Source: AFP
- Some of his Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB or Afrikaner Resistance Movement) followers, filled with grief and anger, exchanged heated words with police while trying to enter the farm where he was murdered on Saturday, heightening racial tensions.
- Andre Visagie of the AWB movement said the group would urge teams to avoid the upcoming World Cup football tournament in South Africa out of safety concerns. He said it would avenge Terre'Blanche's death, but didn't give details.
- "The death of Mr Terre'Blanche is a declaration of war by the black community of South Africa to the white community that has been killed for ten years on end," Visagie said.
- In the quiet streets of Terre'Blanche's stronghold Ventersdorp on Easter Sunday, ugly white-black incidents were being played out.
- "A black guy killed a white guy. Obviously it's going to stir a lot of trouble," Kgomotso Kgamanyane, 20, a cashier at local petrol station said. "Just earlier a customer came in, a white guy, and he told us to go to hell.
- "So it's something that's going to stir a lot of trouble between blacks and whites. It could get violent, because whites in their minds they think that we did it because of hate."
- Despite a display of gun holsters and the AWB's paramilitary history, Steyn claimed the movement was against violence.
- Several AWB supporters had to check in their firearms at a press conference held by the minister of police yesterday, with one elderly man kissing his reclaimed revolver as he exited the meeting.
- The organisation, which uses a swastika-like emblem, believes that the killing is linked to a controversial song urging people to "kill the boer" sung by ruling ANC party youth leader Julius Malema.
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Monday, 05 April, 2010
The Design and Bed of Our Penal Colony [Today's News Poem, April 4, 2010]
http://toylit.blogspot.com/2010/04/design-and-bed-of-our-penal-colony.html
“There have been more than 3,000 murders of Afrikaner farmers in remote homesteads like this since the end of apartheid 16 years ago.”
--BBC, 18:58 GMT, Sunday, 4 April 2010 19:58 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8602967.stm
“With an attitude of respect and concern for other beings, we can create an atmosphere of happiness, real harmony and real brotherhood.”
--The Dalai Lama, Twitter, about 12 hours ago via web as of 2:38pm PST
White power sleeps and never dies,
It simply make a compromise.
To pause the never-ending war.
The other races seek to score
In turn. The tribal instinct stays,
For human beings will never stray
Too far from those they think as kin.
The eye, it lies. They think the skin
Has deeper bonds than blood they share.
The science (if you must compare)
Confirms that which one ought expect
To hear from self when ones reflects
On totems; such as anger, rage.
Unless one seeks to self-engage
And not excuse the whim or gene
With reason—with our great machines—
Unless we make an atmosphere
Of harmony, we make the gears
Of something that will evermore
Both dig and fill the earth it scores.
http://toylit.blogspot.com
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