White supremacist group vows revenge for Terreblanche killing

Africa Leader Sunday 4th April, 2010

The South African white supremacist group, Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging or AWB, has vowed to take revenge for the killing of leader Eugene Terreblanche.

Terreblanche was found hacked to death on Saturday at his farm in Ventersdrop.

Police have alleged two black farm workers were responsible for the murder, which was supposedly over a wages dispute.

The workers claimed to police that they had not been paid their monthly salaries of around $60 each.

The workers, aged 21 and 15, allegedly smashed a window to enter Terreblanche's home before killing him with a wooden club and a machete while he was sleeping.

The pair told police that Terreblanche had previously threatened to kill them when they asked him for the money.

The event, which has shocked South Africans, has stirred the AWB to calling the murder a declaration of war by the nation's black community.

The spokesman for the AWB, Andre Visagie, has warned other countries to avoid sending their football teams to the World Cup in June, as "action will be taken to avenge Mr Terreblanche's death."

The AWB has also blamed the killing on Julius Malema, leader of the youth wing of the African National Congress, saying he fomented violence against whites by resurrecting the apartheid era protest song entitled "Shoot the Boer."

Last week Mr Malema said he had been in fear of his life over a text message, purportedly from the AWB, which offered a reward for his death.