The murder of South African white supremacist leader, Eugene Terreblanche, over the weekend, will surely be exploited in the next few days. (Terreblanche was beaten and hacked to death by workers on his farm on Saturday who, according to reports, had “argued with him over unpaid wages.” Terreblanche had a violent history himself, including spending time in prison for beating one of his workers, a black man, nearly to death in 1997). Though the incident is symptomatic of criminal violence in South Africa, and we don’t know much about the killers’ motives and most victims of crime are black, already all kinds of people will be trying to score political points and make claims about a race war against whites.
Watch how this crime (with its own context) will become part of a larger discourse among whites–and on Afrikaans media websites–about a supposed “genocide” or “volksmoord” (volks murder) against Afrikaners.
As The Economist, not known for its anti-white views, reported last week: “… According to the South African Institute of Race Relations, a think-tank, research suggests that at least 90% of the attacks on white farmers [since 1994] were “purely criminal”. Labour disputes accounted for others. Only 2% were said to be motivated by “racial animosity.”
The claims of a race war is of course part of a larger discourse that white are being marginalized from public life and the professions, despite evidence to the contrary.
Already, the leaders of the opposition Democratic Alliance–who never miss an opportunity to score political points–was quick to imply that the murder had something to do with “racial tensions” and specifically with an old struggle song with lyrics that include “Kill the Boer” favored by the odious ANC Youth League leader, Julius Malema. There is little evidence that ordinary black people share Malema’s fascist views or that he is linked to the crime.
That he exploits genuine grievances among poor black South Africans with the new South Africa is a more important story. Or that the workers are now singing songs against Malema and the ANC for its failure to do much about their plight in the last 15 years. So also is the silence about the humiliation, exploitation of and violence against black farmworkers in South Africa’s countryside.
But that does not stop the DA from scoring political points.
Similarly, I scanned sites like Afriforum (a white farmers’ union) and Solidariteit (a white pressure group passing as a trade union and obsessed with affirmative action) where writers, bloggers or commentors could not keep themselves from recycling these claims. (Of course, some of them state their discomfort with Terreblanche in the same breath. )
But it all fits in well with the new victim discourse among white South Africans. (Media outlets are partly to blame. In some instances–as in this Reuters photo story–white poverty is exaggerated and treated as unnatural. The media and Afrikaner “civil rights” groups, of course, say little about black poverty or crimes against black people.
On a side note: Earlier today I read on Afrikaans newspaper, Rapport, that Terreblance opposed the 1970s “liberal” regime of John Vorster. Vorster was “liberal”?
We should all condone the murder Terreblanche the fat Dutch bastard. It serves him right. Boers were arrogant, conceited murderers, criminals and ruled South Africa under a tyrranical regime headed by slef-centred maniac zygotes such as Terreblanche. It serves him right and they should have skewered to death all of his family also. It is renound that the Dutch have always been pigs of the worst kind and that includes those living in Holland too. The Boers are even worse than thier Dutch pig cousins – they are not only pigs but they are satanic maniacs.
South Africa and all African countries should be returned back to their former colonial rule. Blacks are no good in the upper levels of human society as they are dunder-headed coconuts and monkeys and should only be servants and do the daily rounds of collecting coconuts and other produce for the whites. When Africa was under its colonies it was a much better and much more civilised place and everybody knew their place.
There are almost 3000 murders a year against farms mainly run by white people in South Africa. Isn’t it time the South African Government did more to tackle this crisis? Also, isn’t it time that the Government did more to minimise poverty amongst shanty towns and the much poorer black community? I see South Africans hacking ecah other to death and as soon as the World Cup is over too, when most Blacks will never see even a penny trickle into their pockets from this global event. By September 2010, South Africa will descend into a bloody and long civil war.
Bloody and civil war is what people endured during the apartheid years, when christelike nasionale onderwys and isolation screwed white people up and when people of coloured were treated like sub-humans.
no counrty in the world is crime free,-us south africans should look on the bright side and count our blessings.
Jaques,
Dont think I’m unbalanced. I dont ONLY hate blacks. As a matter of fact, I hate “disgrace to your race” white people even more….
You are a DISGRACE TO YOU RACE. We had a very prominent lawyer in Suidwes Afrika just like you. His name WAS Anton Lubowski. Boer klong, with a BLACK HEART. So we shot him to pieces. I think the coroner eventually got tired of putting little numbered toothpics in all the bulletholes……
Go hump your good girlfriend Suzi Matwetwe and preserve your own well being by only going to her when no-one sees you.
PS. We dont have the AWB in Suidwes, but we recently formed an orginisation to “care” for the interests of our Boervolk here. Still early days, but we have to be prepared for the future.
The bright side is that we have the power to
a) Defeat the Kar4rs
and
b) Reacon with “disgrace to your race” whites like you.
Look what happened to Anton Lubowski in Southwest. He was just like Jaques, he ended up with many, many bulletholes.
These things happen…..
Eugene Terblanch farmed on a black 15 year old boy’s back yard
Eugene Terblanche is no hero. He is a murderer and got what he deserved. He is a rapist
It is by time that blacks stand up for themselves. They are constantly abused by farmers.
The 2010 world cup will go ahead as planned. Whites are smoking their socks if they think they can disrupt this event. You are too few….way tooooooooo few. Wake up and smell my ass.
Suidwes Moerseun, stop smoking the dagga you farming
Veronica, if you’re sure South Africa will errupt into civil war by Sep 2010, maybe it’s time you buy your ticket out of here. 3000 farmers murdered per year, you have your facts mixed up my dear. You are so far from intelligent, it’s scary. Dumb ass.
aaaahh I know what the problem is everyone should stop thinking that they are better than the next. Nelson Mandela worked and faught his entire life for everyone to be equal, this is what the ANC was founded on this is what he lives by, more people recognise his face on the globe than that of Jesus. So if you are black DONT fuck it up all his hard work. and if you are white, tomorrow when you go to work and smile and have a good laugh with a black person stop for a minute… and think what a strange war this must be !!!!!!
Dzingwena made a comment that black on white racism is retaliatory. What was it when the black nations invaded SA from the north and murdered most of the indigenous people? Were they retaliating, or just showing what a murderous nation they are before they claimed SA as their own? To all those smug people sitting overseas in UK , USA, EU or wherever, take note now of the conflict that started before apartheid. The criminals you harboured in your countries have always been terrorists hiding behind their race. Open your eyes, sit up and speak out now, as you did then. Reach out and help the people that are victims. You can do it for Iraq and Afghanistan, so why can’t you help Africa?
Wow, reading all of this evoked so many em0ti0ms. Cant we all get al0ng. Pe0ple can be such ign0rant dumbass’s. Asl0ng as ther’l b dumb and stinky kaffirs, i’ll always dislike them.
Ah who cares ? you white SA’s treated the poor blackfella like shit for how long? now its time to face the music, dont run like cowards which you all are. you are coming to Aus in droves trying to F-&% this place up like you did your own shambles of a country , stay home and sort your own mess out you created , the more of you that get killed the better less to come here
Terry from USA
AL: My sentiments exactly!
@ AL….. 6 month’s later. I’m very happy in South Africa and definately not planning to go anywhere! You sound very bitter! As a white and proud South African, what did I ever do to you that you’re wishing me dead?
LOL
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