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| Eugene Terreblanche killed in South Africa |
| 2010-04-03 |
| South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche has been killed on his farm in the country's north-west. Mr Terreblanche, 69, was beaten to death after a dispute over unpaid wages, local media reports said. Two people are said to have been arrested. President Jacob Zuma has appealed for calm, saying the killing should not incite racial hatred. Mr Terreblanche, who campaigned for a separate white homeland, came to prominence in the early 1980s. He became the champion of a tiny minority determined to stop the process that was bringing apartheid to an end. "Mr Terreblanche's body was found on the bed with facial and head injuries," AFP news agency quoted a police spokesman as saying. The report said he had been killed after a payment dispute with two workers, who have since been charged with his murder. "He was hacked to death while he was taking a nap," a family friend in the town of Ventersdorp was quoted as telling Reuters news agency. |
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