(3 Apr 2010)
1. Eugene Terreblanche leaving the Potchefstroom Correctional Community Centre after serving three years for attempted murder and assault of one of his black workers
2. Wide of crowd
3. Various of Terreblanche riding a black horse on the street
4. Terreblanche speaking
5. Wide of Terreblanche addressing crowd
STORYLINE:
South Africa''s white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche was bludgeoned to death by two of his farm workers on Saturday in an apparent dispute over wages, police said, amid growing racial tensions in the once white-led country.
Terreblanche, 69, was leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging movement, better known as the AWB, that wanted to create three all-white republics within South Africa in which blacks would be allowed only as guest workers.
The opposition Democratic Alliance party blamed increasing racial tensions for the killing.
The South African Press Association quoted police spokeswoman Adele Myburgh as saying that Terreblanche was attacked by a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy who worked for him on his farm outside Ventersdorp, about 110 kilometres (68 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.
Myburgh said the alleged attackers have been arrested and charged with murder. She said the two, whom she did not identify by name, told the police that there had been a dispute because they were not paid for work they had
done on the farm.
Terreblanche had threatened war on South Africa''s white minority government in the 1980s when it began to make what he considered dangerous concessions to blacks that endangered the survival of South Africa''s white race.
A symbol of white resistance to democratic black majority rule, he had lived in relative obscurity in recent years but had not changed his views.
He revived the AWB in 2008 and had rallies that drew growing crowds whom he wooed with his declaration that white South Africans are entitled to create their own country, a fight he declared he would take to the International Court at The Hague.
From the other side of the colour spectrum, a firebrand African National Congress leader also has been raising tensions, insisting on singing an apartheid-era song urging supporters to "kill the Boer."
Boer is Afrikaans for a farmer, but also is a derogatory term for any white in South Africa.
Last week, the high court ruled the song hate speech and banned the ANC''s Julius Malema from singing it. The ANC is appealing.
Terreblanche''s killing comes amid growing disenchantment among blacks for whom the right to vote has not translated into jobs and better housing and education.
Some consider themselves betrayed by leaders governing the richest country on the continent and pursuing a policy of black empowerment that has made millionaires of a tiny black elite while millions remain trapped in poverty as whites continue to enjoy a privileged lifestyle.
Terreblanche recently has made statements highlighting the corruption that has ballooned under the black government.
Terreblanche launched his political career in 1973 amid growing opposition to the white minority government and its racist policies, forming the AWB with six other "patriots" of the Afrikaans-speaking whites descended from
Dutch immigrants.
The AWB was a semisecret organisation for years. When it "came out" in 1979, the movement displayed its Nazi-like insignia and declared opposition to any parliamentary democracy.
Terreblanche would arrive at meetings on horseback flanked by masked bodyguards dressed in khaki or black and became a charismatic leader for a small minority that could not envision a South Africa under the democratic
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