Fire trucks, ambulances and police units are being sent to Ventersdorp ahead of the funeral on Friday of murdered AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche.
Slain AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, whose funeral took place in Ventersdorp on Friday, was a highly divisive figure.
Cosatu has expressed outrage that the death of Terre’Blanche has received so much attention while the treatment of farm workers is largely ignored.
Guest houses in the normally sleepy North West town are inundated with bookings from journalists all over the world.
The ANC has called for restraint from its members in the wake of the murder of AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche.
A court heard on Tuesday how the two workers accused of murdering Eugene Terre’Blanche had pulled down the AWB leader’s pants after the attack.
Two farm workers, aged 15 and 28, were on Tuesday officially charged with the murder of former AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche.
Terre’Blanche was no joke, even if he was not the threat to the transition to majority rule that he imagined himself to be.
The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging wants a piece of land for its people to govern and call its own, a spokesperson said in Ventersdorp on Tuesday.
North West public safety minister Howard Yawa on Monday warned the AWB against marching to the Ventersdorp Court on Tuesday.
The mother of a 15-year-old murder suspect said on Monday that her son struck Eugene Terre’Blanche with an iron rod after he refused to pay him.
A white supremacist group in SA has vowed to exact revenge for the death of their leader as President Jacob Zuma sought to calm racial tensions.
SA President Jacob Zuma called for calm on Sunday after the murder of far-right leader Eugene Terre’Blanche fanned fears of growing racial tension.
Eugene Terre’Blanche, who once threatened to wage war rather than allow black rule in South Africa, was hacked to death at his farm on Saturday.
Eugene Terre’blanche, leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, was attacked and killed at his farm 10km outside Ventersdorp on Saturday.
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/ 7 December 2009
A complaint to the Human Rights Commission has been lodged against AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche for a comment he made in Pretoria over the weekend.
Eugene Terre’Blanche tells the M&G that the final chapter of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging has not been written.