A man whose existence was defined by racism and violence, Eugene Terre'Blanche died as he lived. In 1973, in apartheid South Africa, Terre'Blanche founded the militant white-supremacist Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement). In 1993, his supporters stormed the venue where talks were taking place between the white South African government and Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) to end white rule. This year, on April 3, the 69-year-old was bludgeoned to death on his farm outside Ventersdorp in the far north of South Africa by, according to press reports, two black workers. Police charged a 28-year-old man and 15-year-old boy with...
Spotlight: South Africa's New Racial Tensions
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