South Africa: Call for Calm After Murder of White Supremacist

4 April 2010
allAfrica.com

South African President Jacob Zuma has called for calm following the murder of white far-right leader Eugene Terre'blanche, according to news reports.

Terre'blanche, leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), was hacked and bludgeoned to death at his farm. Police have detained two farm workers in connection with the killing, which police said appeared to be over a wage dispute.

President Zuma called the attack a "terrible deed" and urged South Africans to refrain from allowing "agent provacateurs to take advantage of this situation by inciting or fuelling racial hatred," according to Reuters news agency.

The AWB said it was considering what action to take to avenge Terre'blanche's death. He was the far right's hardline opponent to the end of apartheid in the early 1990s and had campaigned for a separate white homeland.

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