(12 Mar 2001) Afrikaans/Eng/Nat
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The racist, white leader of a right-wing South African militant group began a six-year prison sentence on Monday for beating a black man so badly he became paralysed and brain damaged.
It was the second time in a year Eugene TerreBlanche, Leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement - AWB) Party had reported to jail.
Last March he rode into police custody on a black horse with martial music booming in the background, to serve a one-year prison term for assaulting a black man.
He was released from jail into house arrest in August.
His entrance into police custody was far more low-key this time.
As he reported to jail in Potchefstroom, 120 kilometres (75 miles) west of Johannesburg, about 50 white students from a nearby agricultural college sang traditional Afrikaner songs, including Die Stem, South Africa's national anthem from 1957 to the end of apartheid in 1994.
About 100 black people who had gathered near the court responded by singing Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, a liberation song that combined with Die Stem is the country's new national anthem.
They also chanted "gone to jail".
The white students left after TerreBlanche had disappeared into the court building.
The crowd dispersed peacefully.
TerreBlanche is the leader of the Neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, which is seeking an autonomous state for Afrikaners, the white descendants of Dutch settlers who ruled South Africa during the apartheid era.
TerreBlanche told friends and supporters to be ready for his return.
SOUNDBITE: (English/Afrikaans)
Question: (English) "If you survive jail, will you be back and will the movement go on?"
Answer: (Afrikaans) "I will be back. It's not a question of if I will survive jail because I don't walk alone in that jail."
SUPER CAPTION: Eugene TerreBlanche, Leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) Party
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"What about farm murders? When someone kills someone on farms, nothing happens. This guy does something, I don't say what he's done is right. But going to jail for six years? But if you murder someone, most of the guys get nothing for it. Why?"
SUPERCAPTION: Vox pop, White Afrikaner
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Just like a dog, he has to go to the dog's jail. That's all that we want for him. Six years is a very short time, we want him to go for life sentence. Or just like Mandela he must go for 27 years. But Mandela didn't kill any person."
SUPERCAPTION: Vox pop, Black woman
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