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The murder on Saturday of South Africa’s -right leader Eugene Terre'Blanche has racial tensions in the country. Mr Terre'Blanche was to death on his farm by two of his . Terre'Blanche was head of the white supremacist group the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, which believed in a white state in South Africa. Officials from the group believe the killing is to an anti-apartheid era song that has the “Shoot the farmer, kill the Boer”. The Boer are the white Europeans who settled in South Africa in the 1800s. The African National Congress party’s youth leader, Julius Malema, recently the song. President Jacob Zuma has called for . He does not want ahead of the soccer World Cup Finals in June.

Eugene Terre'Blanche was a controversial in South Africa’s politics for many . He believed in the supremacy of the white race and racial segregation. He spent his political trying to create a state for only, starting the Afrikaner Resistance Movement in 1973 to try to this aim. This organization had as many as 70,000 members at its . In 2001, Terre'Blanche was sentenced to six years in prison for a of crimes including murder. He served three years of this term. One of his , Mauritz Oberholzer, predicted there would be violence in the days and weeks to come: "There is going to be a lot of blood flowing. They took out our leader. We are all for revenge," he warned.


 


 
 
 
 
 
 
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