/ 4 June 2010

I see dead (white) people

Eugene Terre'Blanche is sitting happily in heaven, where he shares his days with his first horse and his family, according to medium Sue du Randt.

Eugene Terre’Blanche is sitting happily in heaven, where he shares his days with his first horse, his family, Hendrik Verwoerd, Jan Smuts and John Vorster. This is according to Afrikaans medium Sue du Randt, who says she interviewed Terre’Blanche last month.

When the Mail & Guardian called Du Randt on Thursday, her assistant said she couldn’t take the call because she was talking to slain strip club boss Lolly Jackson, who was, indeed, “definitely murdered”, Du Randt told the M&G later in the day.

She chose to speak to Terre’Blanche because he was a “normal Afrikaner” who “saw what was happening to the country”, she said. Her exclusive interview from beyond the grave (in Afrikaans) was posted on the spiritualist website, Crossing Over, and parts of it were published in the Afrikaans weekly Sondag in April. Du Randt told the M&G she has also spoken to Hansie Cronjé and Afrikaner prophet Siener van Rensburg. But she “hasn’t had the opportunity yet” to converse with any dead black leaders.

She said Terre’Blanche is “not sad” about what happened to him. In the full interview the AWB leader gives a graphic account of his last day on Earth. He firmly denies that he ever had any “moffie” tendencies and has a stiff warning for those who say otherwise: “I was never a homo. I was a man but will get them. I am going to ride them from this side.”

The apartheid leaders in the afterlife say that they all made mistakes, Terre’Blanche notes: “They reckon they are actually to blame.”

According to Van Rensburg’s hindsight, Terre’Blanche says he “should have had the movement [AWB] running smoothly and well established before I got mixed up with the press”.

“Instead of doing more I just talked more, a big mistake,” he said, regretfully. Du Randt said she would certainly chat to Terre’Blanche again.